From the monthly archives:

May 2005

[IPB 2.1] Tweaking the UI

May 31, 2005

I’ve revisited the "inline topic editing"; the feature that allows one to edit the topic’s title when viewing them as a list in a forum.
Currently, one has to double click on the topic’s table cell to activate the edit function. This is rather unfriendly. I had considered adding an "inline edit" icon somewhere but that [...]

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Puttin’ it all together

May 27, 2005

I’ve just about finished the new template editing interface albeit with a few rough corners and bugs to iron out.
I think this is a good mix of javascript techniques; both traditional and AJAX. The Ajax is used to generate a list of "suggested" matches when searching for templates. When you click the "go" button after [...]

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Ajax not required!

May 26, 2005

Ajax is probably the most used and most misunderstood buzzword at the moment.
Ever since Google threw together their map and google suggest service web developers have been trying to jump on the band-wagon and throw Ajax at everything that moves.
Hey, so I’m on the band-wagon but at least I know when to stop!
Although still very [...]

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Ajax Inline Post Editing

May 25, 2005

When I first started added the ajax (XMLHttpRequest) functions to allow one to edit topic titles I thought about creating an interface to allow one to edit posts inline.
I rolled it around in my head for a while and decided that it probably wasn’t needed and I wanted to make sure I wasn’t throwing this [...]

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Backstage at the BBC

May 16, 2005

The BBC have always managed to get their websites "right". They invest heavily into their websites and their sites are regularly mentioned when good design and good content management are discussed.
Now, the BBC are inviting fellow web developers backstage.
backstage.bbc.co.uk is the BBC’s new developer network, providing content feeds for anyone to build with.  Alternatively, share [...]

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