Category Archives: English

Multiple Submit Buttons on a Single Form

October 4, 2005 – 10:32 pm

At some point, people ask themselves “How can I have two submit buttons with different actions in one form?” Well, the approach I’ve used to accomplish this task is to ‘emulate’ the submit buttons with regular button controls and changing the form action based on what button was clicked. In the following example I have [...]

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Using the innerText Property in Firefox

September 22, 2005 – 1:18 am

I’ve read on different forums questions of people asking how they can make the innerText property work in Firefox. Many have suggested to use the innerHTML property instead, but that would not be useful because, obviously, the HTML tags would be either rendered or displayed (an example of the latter would be if we want [...]

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Google Suggest Dissected…

August 24, 2005 – 9:17 pm

A post on how Google Suggest works has been written by Chris Justus on his blog. This is a very good article and I’m sure it will be as useful to other webdevs as it has been for me.

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User Agent IDs

August 19, 2005 – 11:20 am

Searching for a site that would have a list of User Agent IDs, I came across a website with a detailed list of Browser ID Strings (a.k.a. User Agent ID). This can prove useful to a developer who wishes, like they say in their site, to make the fewest checks possible for the browser environment [...]

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Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial

August 10, 2005 – 9:16 pm

This is a great and simple example/tutorial on AJAX by Rasmus Lerdorf (the creator of PHP). It’s just AWESOME! Rasmus’ 30 second AJAX Tutorial (Original Post @ php-general mailing list)

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Death to “click here” link text!

August 10, 2005 – 1:14 am

It’s really annoying to find websites that have the words “click here” to link to other pages… And is very bothersome to find people or companies that use this bad linking practice because ‘other people/companies do it and it works for them’ … WHAT?? To me, that’s just a lame excuse. If you’re gonna follow [...]

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Site Update

August 8, 2005 – 10:18 am

Well, today – August 7th, 2005 – I’m still working on the site… Besides, I got busy taking care of some other projects. As ‘small’ as it may seem, this project it’s all the contrary… Writing articles and tutorials take time, especially when I’m doing it in two languages. I even might re-design the look [...]

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