Category: Software and Programming

Sjoerd Visscher has a bleeding-edge website that never seems to work perfectly in whatever browser I’m using. However, he has two interesting articles about high-level programming in Javascript and callbacks/event handlers, centered on the flexibility of Javascript Function objects.

Dynamic Content with DOM-2 Part 1 and Part 2 (from the O’reilly Network)

Ever wondered how porn sites (among others) keep you from downloading their images by typing in the URL? I mean how they force you to click a link to get to the next image, instead of just entering …02.jpg or whatever in the location field. Well, one way at least uses Apache configuration magic to do the trick.

It would be cool if you could use Javascript and the DOM to sort tables in the browser, wouldn’t it? Looking for something like that, I found this article about manipulating tables with the DOM and linked from it, this very cool Japanese page demonstrating DOM-based Dynamic HTML.

Hmm, I wonder if the text I use as a link affects how the URL is rated by smart search engines like Google. Does linking that last page using words like “DOM” and “Dynamic HTML” help its ratings (and ultimately make it easier to find for people to whom it would be useful) more than if I’d linked it as “Cool Japanese page”?

A tutorial for Zope Page Templates.

Actually, I’m just posting the link to shake up my Radio-rendered pages to use the new template…