Tynt.com is trying to enhance the internet by breaking copy and paste. Their Javascript silently modifies whatever you copy from a webpage so that they can “leverage this behavior into more traffic, higher search rank and more.” Good grief. Gruber does a good job of explaining why this is bad (“It’s a bunch of user-hostile [...]

Running an Apache server on Debian? Suddenly find you can’t access any files in /javascript? As part of a maintenance upgrade, somehow the javascript-common package was selected for me. It quietly installs a symlink javascript-common.conf in /etc/apache2/conf.d that globally aliases all /javascript URLs to /usr/share/javascript. Why? Who knows. I’m sure whoever did it meant well. [...]

I’ve just finished swapping out the Javascript library used on BigHugeLabs.com from Prototype/Script.aculo.us (P+S) to MooTools and I thought I’d share my reasons as well as my impressions for the benefit of any other developers thinking of following a similar path. A little background… BigHugeLabs.com allows visitors to use dozens of “toys” to make fun [...]