Vistered Little Theme

Posted on August 29th, 2006 by tom.
Categories: Site, Tech, Wordpress.

Please read the Security Alert for Vistered Little

I have just stumbled upon the Vistered Little Theme for WordPress and I have to admit I'm smitten. I've switched the site to use it and in the process found a few bugs/issues:

  • The default wallpaper is not available in the wallpaper list
  • The wallpaper thumbnails require the entire set of wallpapers to be downloaded, making the site very very heavy (at least on first load)
  • There are extra images in the images directory that are not references (e.g. old wallpapers)
  • There is some redundant PHP code and redundant generated CSS/JS

I've tweaked the theme to fix these issues and you can download it for yourself below:

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The AJAX Errors That No-one Else Talks About

Posted on August 16th, 2006 by tom.
Categories: Tech.

Handling AJAX errors is about more than just checking the readyState, status and statusText.

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(Re)Introducing Javascript And Hidden Applets (JAHA)

Posted on August 14th, 2006 by tom.
Categories: JAHA, Tech.

Java applets are so late 90's and so web 1.0, so what place do that have (if any) in the web 2.0 craze?
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