Scrollback Gripe
Why is the default scrollback setting always so small? This applies to DOS, XTerms, terminal emulators like putty (which could really do with a way to save the scrollback setting too).
Missing Javascript Business Logic Support
Marcus Baker recently wrote about Ajax applications not being responsive enough, so the argument goes you should do just about everything in the browser, and mainly use the server-side for periodic persistence. I don’t think that’s always the right thing...
Ajax and Awareness of Other Users
A few Ajax UI idioms are emerging, e.g. progress icon while waiting for server response. But I haven’t yet seen anything for awareness of other users. I was just playing with the magnetic poetry demo (via Ajaxian. The pieces started...
AJAX Frameworks round-Up
I’ve been fortunate enough to have received various updates on Ajax projects from some of the developers. Right now, there are so many new Ajax frameworks coming out, and so much Ajaxification of existing frameworks, that it’s getting hard to...
Scheduling on the Interwebs – A Wishlist
I was just reminded of Mail to the Future, a 1998 Userland webapp that lets you - anyone? anyone? - mail to the - anyone? anyone? -future. (Respect for self-documenting webapps.) Another webapp - of similar homebrew feel - that...