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Hi All, A co-worker passed this info on to me: http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/google_web_accelerator_hey_not_so_fast_an_alert_for_web_app_designers.php The Skinny: Google has a "Web Accelerator" that pre-caches pages by following url''s. If you have any plain/simple URL''s that don''t take paramaters (like what often happens in rails apps), it will try to

...n a unique event with a unique atmosphere. Last years event in June 2005 was a huge success, and this year LUGRadio Live 2006 will be nothing you have seen before. " Speakers at the Event include : Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu Simon Phipps - Open Source and Sun Michael Meeks - OpenOffice Simon Willison - Yahoo! Scott James Remnant - Ubuntu Ted Haeger - Novell Gervase Markham - How to Destroy the Free Software Movemen Bastien Nocera - GNOME development and Fedora Barbie - Messagelabs and Perl Jonathan Riddell - KDE 4 and Kubuntu Dapper Richard Moore - IBM and Open Source Jonathan Haslam - DTrace ....

...="button" /> <input type="hidden" name="choiceMade" value="makeNewMailList" /> <input type="hidden" name="arrangement" value="sendEmail" /> </form> </div> and here I was hoping to use Simon Willison''s addLoad function to hand the command a reference instead of the id, since that seems to work better, but this did not work: addLoadEvent(function() { if(document.getElementById && document.getElementById("linkForNewMailList")){ var clickableItemThatWillT...

Does anyone has any thoughts about starting a project to simplify client-side form validation and input? I started thinking about this because I think date input in most web applications is broken. I really like Simon Willison''s demo: http://simon.incutio.com/code/js/date-parser/ I think this could be improved (by mapping say shift+left-arrow to the previous day, and shift+up-arrow to the previous month) and extended to deal with even more specific cases, or the time of the day. I think that this script,...

If that doesn''t work, then you''ve done something wrong somewhere. ''Cause it works for IE for me and everyone else. The only advantage I see with the YUI toolkit is that it''ll defer attaching events to elements that do not yet exist in the DOM. Big whoop, only a sloppy programmer would try to attach an event to a non-existant element. With Prototype, you can