Posts by daleofcourse

Devs sent into security panic by 'feature that was helpful … until it wasn't'

Spell Check...

A few years ago now I worked on an online direct mail creator, essentially fancy mail merge online that was sent to print; we kept getting complaints that the system was drawing red squiggly lines under users' copy, which tured out to be the browser's helpful spell check feature.

Study shows half of all websites use jQuery

Time and Readability

If you can bash it out quick, have your code readable and maintable and not require any optimisation then jQuery is your go to guy!