A jQuery 1.3 quirk that bit me

deviantART just upgraded to jQuery 1.3, and we found an undocumented jQuery change that broke some things. The behavior of the :enabled selector changed. Before it selected all enabled form elements, now it selects all enabled and non-hidden form elements. This bit us, because we were using jQuery to assemble some form elements to submit …

TextMate bundle: Ack in Project (improved)

I use TextMate for work. It’s a good editor, doesn’t get in my way, and I take advantage of relatively few of its nifty features. One problem with TextMate is that its built-in search is very slow, especially across a large project. Since I work with a full checkout of the deviantART source code, searches …

Detecting failure

I warn you in advance that this post does not end with a resolution of my problems. For reasons relating to dynamic loading of javascript dependencies, I wanted to find a way to tell: When a script tag finishes loading a file Whether that file was successfully loaded For various reasons, I didn’t want to …