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11:18 pm on August 7, 2008 |
I’m very pleased to announce that Fusion Bay’s first application for the iPhone is now available for download! We’ve put a lot of effort into the game in a relatively short amount of time. As with most software projects, we’re happy to get it out to the public and are already planning the next version.
Wordabble is a tile word-search game. We’ve put together a better description and some screen shots on
www.wordabble.com.If you’re a word lover, have an iPhone or iPod Touch and are up for a challenge…
buy Wordabble!
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4:23 pm on November 20, 2007 |
More and more I’m noticing a new trend in web-based forms.
The days of the <select> tag are numbered. The most recent example is GMail’s “More actions” drop-down.
It’s gone from
this
to
this
I completely understand why. Unavailable CSS styling and
<select> bugs in IE have always been frustrating, but the real motivation to move away from the tag has been its lack of features.With a JavaScript/DHTML solution you can simply do
so much
more. In
December 2004 when Google released “
Google Suggest” (which is an auto-complete-like drop-down of the search field) many developers started to consider abandoning <select> tags. Add to that the flexibility of cross-browser styling, adding images to drop-downs and dramatic visual effects… The end is near.However, I’m not suggesting the end of the tag’s use. Using a <select> tag gives the browser the responsibility to make the form accessible to vision and mobility-impaired people which is often overlooked in a small project or web-based application.