I’m talking about “ajax” links, or “javascript” links. Anything that results in an action while still letting the user remain on the current page. Let’s call them “scripted” links here. Scripted links and non-scripted links lead to drastically different user experiences. We should make them look different too. Clicking a non-scripted link causes the browser [...]

This morning I had to take a short bus ride up in SF. The seat next to me had part of the Marin Independent Journal on it, and the comics were facing up, so I grabbed it and started reading. Eventually I stumbled on the horoscopes. This was mine: LEO You’ve stuck with your original [...]

Nielson stopped ranking by page views! The page view is dead! AJAX only apps are the future! We only need one url now, yay! No. Stop it. Calm down. You still need urls for every object in your system. Permalinks still matter. Having one page that just makes AJAX requests to fill in the content [...]

Today’s CSS specification allows for the browser to distinguish between a few different types of links. Two such types are regular links and visited links. a:link { } a:visited { } By default, visited links are purple. This is a concept that we’re all very familiar with, both as web developers and web users. It’s [...]