LOLspeak is infiltrating the universe. Imagine my surprise when my Flickr page greeted me this morning with this:

It is a language now.

This isn’t what you think. Tabbing between form fields is a built in behavior in modern web browsers that admittedly saves a load of time and is extremely convenient. This article is not about tabbing between form fields. It’s about tabbing IN form fields.

As someone who spends a lot of time in a web browser, and a lot of time again coding in a web browser, this has been one of my biggest pet peeves. One of the principles of clear code is lots of whitespace. Tabs help set hierarchy and make code much more readable. In your web browser, if you press the “Tab” key in a form field, you just jump to the next input. This is inconvenient! I want to make my code readable! And I don’t want to press the spacebar a thousand times to make it so!

Fortunately, there’s a great Firefox extension that fixes this! It’s called “Tabinta”, which stands for Tab in Textarea. Simply install the extension and you’ll be able to make tabs in multi-line text inputs! It’s simple to turn off as well (just right click!) and offers a wealth of configuration options through Firefox’s about:config. I’m seriously so happy I found this.

Right-oh, nose back to the grindstone!

I’m really excited for the upcoming Wordpress 2.7 update. I know that as soon as it gets here, it will be underrated, but I’m excited now regardless.

The new admin interface is my main reason for excitement. I never really knew what problems people had with the older admin interfaces, but after test-driving 2.7, I see a lot of room for improvement in 2.6.x.

Regardless of the changes, I’m just thankful that Wordpress is Wordpress. I maintain a website for one of my clients that uses Joomla, which I personally think is just a mess.