Tag Archives: jquery

jQuery selector escaping

jQuery selectors are powerful and simple to use, until you have attribute values (including ids and classes) that have funny characters. I wrote a plugin adds a simple function $.escape that will escape any special characters. For example if I … Continue reading

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Not solving the wrong problem

I like a great deal of what Google does for the open web. They sponsor standards work, they are working on an open source browser, they are building documentation on the state of the web for web developers. It’s all … Continue reading

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New challenges

So I’ve been at a new job for a couple of weeks now. I left Songbird around when we shipped 1.0 to seek some new challenges. I’ve been doing Mozilla browser development for seven and a half years and I’m … Continue reading

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