I found this wonderfully created interactive tarantula on my travels around the web, a true showcase of what is capable with a creative mind and a flair for technology. I’ve made a few enemies of arachnophobes around the building by sending this to people disguised in a TinyURL link (sorry Lorna!). It was worth it though…
I was reading the Google Blog and came across a very welcome post.
Hopefully now we will see less hesitance to use Flash in creative ways for fear of disappearing down the search rankings!
Although we should all have updated to at least IE7 by now (if not a more recent competitor), there are still thousands of users out there still stuck in IE6 land. Javascript objects on IE6 are notorious for memory leaks which can seriously degrade performance over time, but I noticed a post over at Ajaxian explaining a very simple workaround using a rarely used javascript construct – try … finally.
Google have finally launched a much anticipated service among web developers. Use of various AJAX API libraries has become pretty ubiquitous in newer websites and unfortunately it’s getting to a point that every other page you visit makes you download yet another copy of Prototype, Mootools or jQuery wasting large amounts of bandwidth if only you could access the already cached copies that the user has already downloaded.
