Monday, April 23, 2012

jQueryUI Dialogs

jQueryUI is a set of graphical interface libraries that comes on top of jQuery. Developped by the same team, it follows jQuery's evolutions and proposes a set of interface elements (named widgets) such as buttons, accordions, tabs, and what interesses us here CSS popups called dialogs. A dialog can display a text message or an HTML form, and it can be modal, i.e. it stops the user's navigation and waits for an action to go on (the validation of a form, the click of a button…).

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Long and short numeric scales

Long numeric scale and short numeric scale
The concept of long and short numeric scales has been coined by the French mathematician Geneviève Guitel in 1975. In the short scale, every new word greater than a million is one thousand times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by three), whereas in the long scale, every new word greater than a million is one million times bigger than the previous term (the digits are grouped by six).