Posting Date: December 16, 2002

WebWord Comment -- I really like the way XPLANE's Share a link page highlights fields when they are active. Does this work in most browsers? Have other people seen this? Nice!

Reader Comments...

I like it too, but would approach in a reverse fashion -- making the current field white. That's a data entry aide I recognize from my old MSAccess days.

Posted by: Boyink on December 16, 2002 07:43 PM

Metafilter has been doing it for over a year I think.

Posted by: James on December 16, 2002 08:03 PM

does not work with Opera 6, but Opera 7 and IE works. Nice.

Posted by: on December 16, 2002 08:53 PM

side note: does anyone else recognize the illustrations on that site? It's great to see one of my favorite artists working in tech. Too bad we can't afford him on our current project.. 64.240.98.84/Genwest/index.html. Completely devoid of any design elements. Character is good for usability

oh yeah, that text entry trick is nice, ill have to try that :)

(by the way, i haven't validated the xhtml yet not even close)

Posted by: Ryan Ray on December 17, 2002 12:03 AM

oh yeah, that text entry trick is nice, ill have to try that :)

(by the way, i haven't validated the xhtml yet not even close)

Posted by: Ryan Ray on December 17, 2002 12:03 AM

Sorry about the 2x entry, still getting the hang of this tablet PC.

Posted by: Ryan on December 17, 2002 12:05 AM

Ryan, try it with a big glass of water.

Posted by: Mac on December 17, 2002 06:15 AM

At first I thought it was Terry Colon, who used to do the diagrams for Suck, but looking at other work on the site, I see it's not. I love the style - who is it?

Posted by: James Tuddenham on December 17, 2002 08:01 AM

Groovy mouseover effects. I wrote a tutorial on how to do that a few months ago: http://www.davidgagne.net/code/archives/005543.shtml

Posted by: dvg on December 17, 2002 12:46 PM

Well after further research I found out that it wasn't who i thought it was... If you like the home page style, with the strange, cool squareish buildings, try Acme Novelty Library. Seems like one of the XPlane illustrators is a fan too :)

http://www.fantagraphics.com/artist/acme/acme.html

Did you guys think it was easy to actually find their services on that site?

Posted by: on December 17, 2002 01:26 PM

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