Sometimes you might want to present things differently to the user depending on whether JavaScript is enabled in the User Agent or not. I would like to mention a method on how to do this by attaching a class to the body element of the page, as it came out of some discussions we had amongst Web Developers at Yahoo!. But maybe there are better ways of doing that? Continue…
It has been a while, but he is back. Agent YUI on a new exciting mission, equipped with a lot of gadgets, fighting the villain and seducing a couple of girls along the way. Well not quite. This time, we will discover how to use what is literally the dot in Web 2.0: Ajax. Continue…
As stated a couple of days ago, I was able to complete a Fire Eagle WordPress plugin prototype and get it running on my web host. Now I did a little bit of polishing and I think the "I Am Here" plugin is ready to be released into the wild. Beware: still in Alpha state! Continue…
For the last couple of weeks I was working on a WordPress Plugin for Fire Eagle, a service by Yahoo! that gives applications access to the location of a user (with regards to appropriate authorization and privacy concerns). The result is a prototype visible in the sidebar showing my current location, local time and weather. This blogpost provides some more behind-the-scenes information about Fire Eagle and the plugin. Continue…