2005 / October 28^th/ Finally.

It’s been a long night, but it’s done. Version 4½ of warpspire.com is upon you. What’s so different around here?

• New Design: Finally something I can be proud of again.
• Tags: Yep. I’m joining the bandwagon.
• AJAX: AJAXified comments. Home grown (p.s. special points if you can figure out how they work. Notice the lack of any onclick or onsubmit handlers in the HTML.
• Winamp Integration: Check out the home page.
• Content: My goodness. More content than the eyes can see. I’ve brought back the old stuff, brought in the new stuff, and published a whole hell of a lot more pages. There’s just more here now.

Have fun guys… and don’t break it too much. I’m off to take my EIT this weekend… wish me good luck!

1. 

   JBagley

   October 28^th | #

   Great design. BTW, whats with the 4 “and a half” version?

2. 

   Callum Mcleod

   October 28^th | #

   Looks beautiful :) Well done!

3. 

   Daniel Oliver

   October 28^th | #

   Looks fantasic Kyle. I’ve been given sneak peaks from you as you have been developing this and it’s turned out very well.

   This is your best design for this site yet even though I did quite like the older, worn down look you had on the go at one stage.

   I’m off to have a play on the site now and see what new things you have around here.

4. 

   Eddy Bones

   October 28^th | #

   Pretty swanky new look ya got goin’. Very nice. Your header image is repeating though, so it looks a bit off-kilter. It’s not supposed to do that, methinks?

5. 

   Eddy

   October 28^th | #

   Nevermind the comment about the header. Old stylsheet cached or something…. Sorry.

6. 

   Kyle

   October 28^th | #

   Thanks for the compliments guys.

   JBagley, 4 ½ has to do with the fact that the last 3 months or so I put up a “temporary” version I would say… not quite a full version, so I deemed it ½ ;)

7. 

   Sam

   November 1^st | #

   You’re using Behaviour.js for the comments. :-)

   Don’t see the point personally since it’s only one element, and behaviour is usually used to add, you know, behaviour, to a group of elements at once, but I suppose it does make for cleaner HTML and a more declarative coding style.

8. 

   Kyle

   November 3^rd | #

   The point?

   • My javascript is (far) more readable
   • Effects are easier to control, easier to modify
   • My form degrades gracefully in the event javascript is disabled
   • Cuts down on HTML junk
   • Helps contain all javascript functionality in one place, instead of spread across multiple files

   The same cannot be said for RoR’s implementation of the prototype library.

   Behaviour is aimed to be a replacement for inline event handlers, nothing more, nothing less. Yes it does excel at what you’re talking about, but it certainly can be used for other purposes as well.

   To me, behaviour : functionality :: css : presentation

9. 

   fdsa

   April 12^th | #

   daadfs

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