This week, I encountered two little problems that can take time to fix if you don't search with the proper keywords on google. First bug occured in Firefox 3...yes in Firefox 3! I just created an absolute positionned div in javascript with a textfield inside. The problem was that the focus was on the textfield as I wanted but we could not see the blinking caret!..quite disturbing as a user experience. The bug is well known and not new. The solution was just to use position : fixed instead o... Read more

I've been using Mootools for about one year now and find it a great javascript framework. But this week I found one more reason to like it : mochaui.com by Greg Houston. It's not new, but I did not try it before, now I did and I think it's a great script to build some cool interfaces. To quote the homepage : "Mocha UI is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics." It runs on all maj... Read more

First I chose to develop my own system so I can customize everything as I want... and also because I enjoy coding. I used the php/mysql couple for the server side coding (nothing unusual, when I 'll have some time I'd like to try Python or Ruby). I also use the template engine Smarty, since I've been working with it, I love it : plus a MCV framework the code is really clean. Design (page HTML) on the one side and server coding on the other side, classic and easy to maintain. As for j... Read more