An unfortunate feature of many lookup services is their insistence on having the user type something, then qualify what sort of thing they’re looking up. Or, to qualify by typing in a different form field. Examples:
Minor Update (May 18, 2005): Hyphenated long variable name, it was causing havoc with Wordpress alignment.
Tabbing is a simple mechanism, popularised by Amazon in the late 90s, for websites to support navigation. Wikipedia (or any mediawiki-powered site) uses a tab metaphor to break down a page into Article, Discussion, Edit This Page, History. Which is...
I’ve been putting together some AJAX design patterns.
Not your grandfather’s Javascript … looks like Nicholas Zakas’s Professional JavaScript for Web Developers is now out. This is great news, as the book’s editor - Jim - noted that there’s an AJAX chapter in there. Well, he, qualifies, “OK,...
