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 have a string s that contains an id but I’m not sure that all of …
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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 really great. Today they posted what they called A Proposal For Making AJAX Crawlable. It …
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 sick of it. I still think building browsers is one of the most interesting fields …