Life With Alacrity: Google Suggest Dissected

we're going to have to do something like this for an interface at work, the list of people is just too long to handle otherwise. haven't read it yet and i'm just about out the door, but it looks like this blog entry has good links to how google suggest works.

Hanzi Smatter

Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture. Note to self: send in picture of grayscale gradient shirt. The calligraphy is too abstract for Sarah here at work to read.

The Fade Anything Technique

I haven't explored the code yet, josh says it requires elements to have an id as well as a class which seems overkill. Once you've gotten everything with class="fade" it seems like you should be able to access individual items as you would an array: getElementByClassName("fade")[0]. Anyway, this guy's site will be worth exploring at some point.

Emulating Position: Fixed;

I've skimmed to the end of The Zen of CSS Design and it's not in there, so here is a demo of my position: fixed; emulation trick. It's not ready for prime time with anything beyond decorative elements, but it's been live and working since last july, so it's about time I wrote it up and asked if there were anyone who would like to help me refine it. The limitations that still need to be overcome are explained at the bottom of the page.

Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice | Baekdal.com

a good article with a handy little list to check your Ajax interface to make sure it's as usable as a normal form.