Category Archives: Web stuff

Musings on client-side web code: (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript

JavaScript Cookies

Posted on May 11, 2009 by MXH

It’s pretty simple to manipulate cookies in JS, but there are a few gotchas. Browser incompatibilities naturally crop up, although somewhat differently than you might expect; some browsers are more permissive of the Wrong Thing than others, so you might … Continue reading →

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New Taipan! Port

Posted on May 8, 2009 by MXH

I enjoyed Jay Link’s JS version of Taipan! so much that I just had to play a complete version. So, I took his C/ncurses version and ported it to JavaScript. The port is available here. (Warning: It’s feature-complete in terms … Continue reading →

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Continuations

Posted on May 5, 2009 by MXH

I’ve been working with continuations for the past few days. I haven’t had occasion to use them before, and must confess to finding them a little spooky. As a first impression I’d say that I like them, but find that, … Continue reading →

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April Retrospective

Posted on May 1, 2009 by MXH

Here are the complete statistics on visits to my puzzle pages during the month of April:

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Google Gadgets (IE)

Posted on April 30, 2009 by MXH

I’ve spent the last few days getting my puzzle Gadget to work in Internet Explorer. In order to make the Gadget work in IE, I had to avoid one questionable practice, and code in one outrageous hack. Today, I’d like … Continue reading →

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Cross Browser Testing

Posted on April 29, 2009 by MXH

I’ve been using the crossbrowsertesting.com web service to debug my IE Gadget woes. CBT.com offers browser-based (Java) VNC connections to virtual(?) machines featuring a wide variety of OSes and browsers. You can use try out the service for free (although … Continue reading →

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Showstopper

Posted on April 28, 2009 by MXH

“Showstopper” bugs – bugs which demand your attention, which hold up forward progress – aren’t terribly common.  Most things can be put off, worked around, “featurized”, or discarded if you don’t want to deal with them right away.  Every now … Continue reading →

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Buttons!

Posted on April 27, 2009 by MXH

A quick recommendation for you:  Cool Text is a nice little web tool that you can use to create buttons for your site.  Its only real downside is that it has 1200 fonts available, many of which are awful; you … Continue reading →

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Dumb Gadgets

Posted on April 24, 2009 by MXH

Over the past few days I’ve talked about the process of converting my puzzle site from a webapp into a Google Gadget. A few twists and turns aside, the centerpiece of the effort was eliminating the page reloads that I’d … Continue reading →

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Google Gadgets (Misc)

Posted on April 23, 2009 by MXH

I’ve dropped the first version of my widget, available here. (I don’t have any nice “click here to add” functionality yet; that’s for tomorrow.) I’ve collected a few more random observations while getting it out the door, which might be … Continue reading →

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