Tag: Ajax
Support Customers by Helping Them Help Themselves
If there’s a single, overarching theme that seems to resonate with product builders it is the pain point of support. Some despise it, but I’ve come to sincerely appreciate the support interactions I’ve had through SearchWP. It’s shown me how to be more patient, more understanding, and through that make SearchWP a better product in […]
Posted: August 12, 2014
I’ve Built a Live Search Plugin for WordPress
Search continues to be (in my opinion) a very much underutilized aspect of many websites. It’s not that websites are universally lacking on-site search, it’s that it usually stinks. I did what I could to improve that for WordPress sites by building SearchWP. It’s what I’ve always wanted but never found in a search solution […]
Posted: May 05, 2014
Mocking jQuery AJAX with AmplifyJS Request
Web Dev .NET: Mocking jQuery AJAX with AmplifyJS Request. The timeline of a recent project involved parallel development of a feature I was working on and the API I was to work with. Under normal circumstances this would have required my waiting for the API to be complete before I was able to fully do […]
Posted: October 16, 2012
Google Bot now crawls arbitrary Javascript sites
Google Bot now crawls arbitrary Javascript sites. I think we were all confident that the day would come where search engines would in fact browse our AJAXified websites, but it’s nice to see some logged evidence that we’re dealing with it today. I recall the days when it was severely frowned upon when equivalent data […]
Posted: May 17, 2012
Breaking the Web with hash-bangs
isolani – Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs. This article is rightfully making the rounds, it’s really important that you read it. For those not familiar with hash-bangs, it’s the newfangled “solution” (from Google) to create AJAX-crawlable websites. The best real-life example you’ve likely seen is the URL structure of New (is it still considered […]
Posted: February 09, 2011
We Haven’t Forgotten About Accessibility, Have We?
There was a time when accessibility conversations took place as much as the latest tricks with CSS or JavaScript. Has the world moved on, leaving accessibility in the dust? Realizing that I have done my fair share of neglecting accessibility best practices lately, I’m going to focus on it.
Posted: October 18, 2010
Improving Your Process: Maintaining Product Quality
As a Web designer or developer, it’s important to make sure that your products remain top quality, regardless of any speed bumps you may encounter.
Posted: April 14, 2008
Accelerated DOM Scripting Book Review
What’s great about Accelerated DOM Scripting by Jonathan Snook, is that in the end, there is no doubt about it that JavaScript libraries aren’t what make the magic happen; the JavaScript does. I’m really thrilled to have read this book and absolutely recommend you add it to your library.
Posted: October 15, 2007
Bulletproof Ajax Book Review
There’s a lot more to Ajax than the buzzword it has become recently. It has generated some serious usability and accessibility discussion to go along with all of the innovative applications it’s been involved with. Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith aims to start you off right with best practices surrounding this new technique.
Posted: March 05, 2007