I’ve seen this error a couple of times and I always forget what causes it so for my own sanity I post it here. If you make an Ajax request and the response comes back with: statusText: “error” status: 0 readyState: 0 then you likely have one of two problems: 1. You are making a…
Month: February 2013
Delete button != Back button
I’m not sure who decided that the delete button would make a great back button in a web browser but they need to have their keyboard license revoked. After filling out a lengthy online form today I messed up some text and thinking that the text field had focus I pressed delete since that’s how…
Font Awesome (or any other webfont in production)
If you are using Twitter Bootstrap then it’s likely you’re also using Font Awesome. If not you need to check it out. We ran into a problem after deploying to production that we didn’t observe in development – namely that none of the Font Awesome icons would show up under Firefox. Turns you you need…
Kids these days
When I was a kid we watched TV on a 20” screen that weighed 600 pounds, output 480i (the antithesis of HD TV) and only provided very fuzzy, analog network channels. Howe we wished for a big screen TV. They were the size of a VW bug, 480i and still only provided fuzzy analog. Of…