It’s pretty tough to handle IP addresses in HTML forms. Sure, you can do have 4 separate inputs and have users tab between them. You could setup one input and validate it on the server side. You could even use a tool like Masked Input to force users to match a specific format.
But all of those solutions fall short in one way or another. Read the rest of this entry »
Google Chrome’s extension gallery opened December 8th and the race to create extensions is on.
I browsed through the gallery, looking for anything that might be useful to me and my normal browsing experience. I found a couple good ones: Google Alerter, RSS Subscription Extension and Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer (by Google).
I searched for a Facebook ad blocker, but the one I found only blocked profile ads – not very useful. So I tried writing my own and found that it was much simpler than I expected. Read the rest of this entry »