Touring Mechanic

In the previous post, I talked about using unobtrusive JavaScript to implement tabs. My next task was to unobtrusively add Yahoo! Maps to my web pages.

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This week I decided to try applying the idea of unobtrusive JavaScript to Touring Machine. My JavaScript has been pretty unobtrusive already, mostly because I just haven’t gotten around to adding much client-side behavior, but I wanted to get an early start on taking the right approach.

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Last week’s main project was switching tab libraries.

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I’m starting this blog as a diary of my daily coding challenges. With luck, I’ll be challenged often enough to keep it interesting, at least to me. No worries so far.

Last night I decided to tackle a long-standing, mildly annoying problem in Touring Machine. When you load the list page in Firefox, you can sometimes see the tabs start out a certain distance apart:

and then move closer together:

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