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Entries Tagged ‘webdevelopment’

There is no such thing as “HTML5 vs. Flash”

Following up on my previous post, I’d like to clarify a few things, because the debate continues to rage on…

First, I’d like to reiterate: I think HTML5 will be a great thing, and I favor the use of HTML over Flash whenever possible. Flash is overused in my opinion, which is part of why it gets a bad rap.

I even let myself get a bit off-topic, so I’d like to clarify a few things…

jQuery autocomplete with JSON / JSONP support, and overriding the default search parameter (q)

Okay, I haven’t posted here in a long time, but after much head-smashing-against-the-wall – I’ve done something I’d like to post about. I’m currently building a web application that uses jQuery and its autocomplete plugin.  While googling around to learn how to use it, I ran across something awesome: geonames.org.  It’s an amazing web service [...]