phil ringnalda

Maybe the reason you can make the widget that POSTs a form look just like a link that GETs a page is because you shouldn’t be allowed to do that.

If rather than writing your snazzy JavaScript enhanced page/application, and then looking at whether or not it degrades tolerably, you start with basic HTML that works, basically, and then enhance it with unobtrusive JavaScript, you know it should always work as well as it can for anyone’s browser with any capabilities.

Forty five things I wanted to write about, just over the last three days.

I just hope their data center is going to leave a little electricity for the rest of the Northwest.

Answers.com isn’t just a great reference site, it’s a great example of how to use rel=”nofollow” to only have the links you want to count counted.

Google’s new weather shortcut may not be even remotely a new idea, but the execution probably hits the sweet spot of “give them what they mostly want, without a bunch of choices and clicks to get there,” unlike the competition.

IP-based query capping means you can actually distribute Yahoo API apps without needing your users to sign up for a developer’s key. Nice!

Yahoo raises the bar for search APIs by as much as GMail raised the bar for web mail.

A selection of bookmarklets that I’m using to think about the Google Toolbar AutoLink feature.

So, you want an arms race, do you?