Mouseless Browsing in Firefox

I found a new Firefox Add-on I will never want to be without again today: Mouseless Browsing. The documentation is rather bad (too complicated), but here’s the rundown: with numlock on, press “.” on the numerical keypad to show/hide a unique number next to each link/button/etc. on the current web page. To activate any particular [...]

On Blogging…

Andrew Sullivan from the Atlantic on why he blogs.  Not by any means a must-read, but a really interesting look at the role of new media in society as we embark upon this blogariffic journey.

Firefox + Jquery UI dialog() bug in XHTML files

I’ve tried Jquery UI 1.6rc2 embedded in a XHTML (note the “X”,).
When trying this simple code:
$(”#hello1″).dialog();
Assuming my xhtml file contains something like:
<div id=”hello1″>Hello</div>
Instead of having my “Hello” embedded in a nice dialog, I encountered the following problem
[Exception... "Cannot modify properties of a WrappedNative" nsresult:
"0x80570034 (NS_ERROR_XPC_CANT_MODIFY_PROP_ON_WN)" location: "JS frame
:: http://localhost:8080/hello.xml :: anonymous :: line 91"
data: no]withinElement()()jquery.js [...]

Jquery UI rocks

I got a chance to try Jquery UI lately. It really makes a lot a common ui tasks a breeze (read: 1 line of js and 1 html class in your div) , especially for dialogs:
http://ui.jquery.com/repository/latest/demos/functional/#ui.dialog

Haystack at UIST

I, along with the User Interface Design group, presented a paper at the ACM UIST conference this week.  Check it out!
http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/projects/inky/uist08-inky.pdf
http://uid.csail.mit.edu/projects/inky/inky-video.mp4

Welcome to the Haystack Blog

We’ve launched our own blog, where we’ll be posting news items, interesting links, project milestones, and much more.  (Assuming David can pressure us to write often enough.)