Archive for September, 2005
Focus Please
After writing Presenting Instant Search I thought a bit more about how I use search and decided that it’s a pain to have to move focus back to the text box on the search results page in order to change something. As a solution for firefox users I wrote a greasemonkey script to focus for [...]
Presenting Instant Search.
At first glance Instant search appears to be our answer to Google Suggest Both provide instant results to search queries as the user types. The differences appear in the actual results that come back. When I first saw Google Suggest I was amazed. Once again Google had shown me something painfully obvious that, as a [...]
Web Dev Plugins.
Growing up as a web developer it’s not very often that I get to enter the world of GUI applications or be able to write plugins to extend the functionality of existing applications. As more and more applications become dependent on the web for functionality they open up a world to web developers that we [...]