or Google Maps and everything breaks.
Both were excellent events in their own right, and great examples of event organisation done on a small to non-existent budget. In JavaScript, that means that libraries that mess with Object. I suppose it's looking for any link on the page with 'Next' as the link text.
According to the authors, doing this with JavaScript requires painful code forking. That in itself is HUGE. YDN is one of my favourite parts of Yahoo!
The big four all have active communities, which means less bugs, more support and a faster rate of improvement. I imagine the main problem was the heat - sitting in a stuffy lecture theatre on a night like Tuesday's wasn't a hugely attractive proposition, but the talks were more than worth it.
This was a common thread at several conferences, and the recent popularity of Parallels for browser testing barely scratches the surface. I suppose it's looking for any link on the page with 'Next' as the link text. The solver itself was pretty straight foward; the hand-rolled OCR routine to deal with the Times' dodgy scanned JPEG a little less so.
Unfortunately, many of these APIs are getting the details slightly wrong and in doing so are producing invalid JSON. People often ask me the same back, so here are three things that have been catching my attention recently.
It offers a replacement for the native browser XMLHttpRequest object that is slower, less fully-featured and does a bunch of crazy extra work behind the scenes.
If you can find a library that solves them for you so much the better!
, Technorati and Google search results pages which don't have those links.
All of Matt's work ended up in vane when the Times stopped publishing the puzzle online just after his system started working. , Technorati and Google search results pages which don't have those links.
Clever, but a bit scary at the same time.
Solve these problems once so you can get on to the interesting task of building the application.