Someone commented on my innerHTML post earlier in the week suggesting I should mention the IE gotchas. (I approved the comment but somehow it has disappeared. Weird.) Anyhow, I was working a little on the Web 2.0 course so I decided to look up the details. I found the answer here:
http://ajaxian.com/archives/innerhtml-gotchas
Turns out a few HTML elements in IE are read only. So if you try to write to them, but things happen. Details in the link.
I ran across this story on webware.com on Yahoo making their search results more open. The gist of the story is this, if you add some code to your web site, developers can provide richer information in the search results. Yahoo calls this technology SearchMonkey and they are previewing it with results from LinkedIn and Yelp.
As mentioned in the article, scaling could be an issue. You definitely could not just turn on extra information for all sites. But it is still an interesting idea.
I was gonna blog about Cuil last week, but when it debuted last Monday, it didn't seem to work so good. It seems to be fixed now though. :)
Cuil is a new search engine created by some of the former higher ups at Google. Apparently frustrated by the Google UI and search methods for the back end, they left to create a new search engine.
What they have come up with doesn't seem to be a lot different. The search summaries are a lot more scrunched up. Looks pretty much the same. No ads yet. It will be interesting to see how much traction they get. Can anyone take on Google? We shall see.
The company name comes from the Irish name McCool or McCuil. Taken from the Irish folklore character Finn McCuil.
I ran across this link to Sun blueprints today while doing a little background research on a course. Written by Greg Murray, formerly of Sun and now with Aptana, it is a nice little summary of good Ajax programming practice. Well worth saving a link to.
Ran across this page (http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/innerhtml.html) today by PPK on quirksmode while verifying some course content. I'm sure there are lots of links to this article as it comes up near the top of the Google list, but I wanted to save a reference for myself.
To summarize, innerHTML is way, way, way, way, faster than DOM. :)
I was playing around with Flickr late last night and uploaded a few Wildflower photos from my Spring Chautauqua hikes. The Bluebells start blooming in late April and are usually gone by June. They seem to change from blue to purple as they pass through the season and are quite spectacular when they are kind of bluey/purply. Anyhow, one blue phase photo and three purple phase turned out. Missed the mid phase this year.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/23323057@N05/sets/72157606483474174/
