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First off, HAPPY NEW YEAR everybody! 2006 has come and gone and now we're nearly a full week into 2007. As always, it feels basically the same to me, but I guess I will join the bandwagon and write some of my resolutions here later.
But right now, the subject is how to design a website that is compatible across browsers. That's a rather large task, and maybe one that is impossible to do perfectly, but... (Continue)
So I've spent the last week or so honing my AJAX skills on the PBwiki API. It has its share of ups and downs, which I'm going to discuss momentarily along with some of the successes I've had along the way.
The PBwiki API itself is documented here. It's incomplete, and as far as I can tell, hasn't been updated for a few months, but that's quite alright. I'm mostly understanding and sympathetic to the idea that a wiki farm run by three guys, of whom only two are programmers, is going to be a little slow in updating certain things. Between trying to minimize the network load, unveiling and debugging the new wysiwyg interface, and undoubtedly working on the next iteration of our favorite wiki, developer tools are going to be low on the totem pole.
What is there is interesting, though, and more than sufficient... (Continue)
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