So I left my Blackberry at a Mexican restaurant in Breckenridge. Because I need internet connectivity like most people need oxygen, I called the restaurant, said to call me if they found it, and went and bought a Motorola Cliq (it was time for an upgrade anyway and T-Mobile gave me half off). Well, I got the Blackberry back later in the day (yay for swappable sim cards!) but I'm keeping the Cliq anyway because it TOTALLY ROCKS.

OMG Internet Explorer: seriously?

I just wasted an hour of my life debugging one Javascript/DOM call. One. One single window.open(). Worked fine in FireFox, failed miserably in IE - it appeared that IE would just skip the script altogether. You know what I found out?

window.open() fails when you specify a name property with a space in it. But only in IE. And, of course, silently.

Why? Why can't the DOM, in IE, handle spaces in the name property? A decent reason is at the bottom of this post

So it used to be a big faux pas to build site navigation in Flash. Sure, you can do some really sick animation and interactivity with Flash that you just can't pull off any other way, but naysayers lived by the creed that it would hurt your search engine rankings because search engines could not index Flash content.

NO LONGER TRUE.

What's with all the brackets?

Ok, so maybe y'all have noticed I have a proclivity for semi-purposeless brackets - case in point, I usually use [sr] as an abbreviation for Silicon Rockstar, and when I'm pressed for time (which is more often than not) I sign correspondence as '[a]'. But there's a method behind my madness, I assure you, I'm not just bracket crazy: it's a math joke (if that can even exist, most people would probably have a hard time finding anything about math funny).

The best part of having a blog is that I have a place on the internets to share the random technological tidbits that are impossible to remember but can really save your ass once a decade or so (I'm just waiting for the day when I google how to do something and it points to my own blog). When building a web page, sometimes the small things can make a large difference. In this instance, I used jQuery to create an expandable box that held details about some more pertinent page content.