Unobtrusive Degradable Ajax Style Sheet Switcher
For today’s article, you can find it over at 24 ways to impress your friends. Thanks Drew for letting me present a cool idea along with a bunch of other great web developers from around the world.
So what are you waiting for, go check it out: Introducing U.D.A.S.S.S.! (Example page included)
Todays question and book information
The winner of today’s contest will receive a copy of Ajax in Action by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello, and Darren James.
Yoda versus Willow. Who wins? And why? (Get creative guys!)
Please remember to put your answers encapsulated within a <blockquote> element, and the regular discussion as normal.
December 17th, 2005 at 9:54 pm
24ways is no workie for me, they must be getting flooded with hits for that super rad stylesheet switcher. And I thought mine was cool and unobstrusive, boy was I wrong. It ain’t cool unless it was the word AJAX (is that a word?) in it, I’m so old school.
December 18th, 2005 at 1:27 am
Yea, I saw my article up for about two minutes as I had just received an email from Drew telling me it’s live. What a bummer for 24ways.org to be down on my big day :( - I haven’t been able to view the site for quite a few hours now.
December 18th, 2005 at 6:29 am
Yea what a bummer but 24ways is now up and running just came from there. Great article BTW !
December 18th, 2005 at 6:46 am
The site’s back now. I’m trying to find out what happened, but it looks like it was a network problem somewhere near by server rather than the server itself. Sorry ’bout that.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:16 am
Yoda all the way. You saw him in Attack of the Clones right? That was sick, Yoda wins, no doubt.
December 18th, 2005 at 9:38 am
December 18th, 2005 at 10:05 am
>> best movie trilogies ever!
Uh, there was actually six of them. What is that, a sextilogy?
December 18th, 2005 at 11:26 am
December 18th, 2005 at 11:50 am
“Yoda versus Willow. Who wins? And why? (Get creative guys!)”
Yoda acheived the rank of Jedi Knight at age 50 and Jedi Master at age 100. The tiny, shrimp-like character went into a self-imposed solitude for 100 years to better understand the force and to develop odd speech patterns. It’s not easy being green, but this little guy with ears the size of dinner platters (to further compound his green surface area) did an excellent job of it. When we see Yoda in Star Wars, he’s already in his 800’s. Any guy who lives to be 800 and has the self-discipline to study The Force for several human life times has got something right going on…
By Willow, I shall assume you do not mean the Buffy character (we all seem to be pulling from Lucas’s Willow anyways). There is little special about Willow, really, and I can’t really seem to find any comparison to Yoda. While Willow’s waving around bits of magic, Yoda’s raising X-wings out of swamps at age 800-something. If he can do that at age 800, I can hardly imagine what type of power he controlled earlier in his life. Yoda flat out wins.
Yoda = 1
Willow = 0
P.S. Yoda is totally way cooler and made Lucas a whoooole lot more money. So he wins in that department too. Oh, and he’s made more action figures.
December 19th, 2005 at 8:35 am
Oops, sorry justin, my bad. I meant the general run of movies…
December 19th, 2005 at 9:24 am
By Willow, I am going to assume you mean the tree.
And while perhaps Yoda could chop the Willow down in a flick of his light saber, the size of his light saber really indicates an enormous over-compensation.
Perhaps Yoda is a bit insecure about his size, and has to scream to the world “Look how big my saber is”, where as, the stoic, serene, if somewhat melancholy Willow tree sits there is complete zen peace.
Maybe the tree is world-weary, but he is happy.
He has truly become one with the Force, whereas Yoda must continually run around, bantering, speaking in some foreign gobbledygook, trying to sound wise.
The Willow tree, on the other hand knows that it is better to say nothing at all, and let everyon think you are a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Of course, it helps that the Willow doesnt have a mouth, but that is more proof of his one-ness with the Force. He has transformed himself.
Yoda, on the other hand, is a preening, yappy Kermit the Frog impersonator, and the Willow is a stalwart, but relaxed guardian of eternity.
BTW, I really doubt you were talking about the tree, but you said get creative, and I have no idea who the heck Willow is :)
Overall, I love your site :D
December 19th, 2005 at 10:15 am
Oh, I guess I should have wrapped it in the blockquote. Whoops.