McArthur GFX

I just wanted to document this rather frustrating bug here, so I can look it up later, and hopefully help anyone else who is running into something similar. This bug involves select tags, specifically setting their innerHTML property.

I had a list of options to give to the user, and a select box would work perfectly. Since DOM methods have burned me in the past, I felt innerHTML was the safer route. It appears, that they both have safety curves like a sine and cosine graph.

We built a Store Locator for our Content Management System, and needed to calculate what stores were close by. That's simple enough in PostgreSQL, which a Point unit type, and simple trigonometry. However, in the Admin area, where you can add new stores, I needed to accept an address in its normal format, and convert that in to longitude and latitude points to be stored. Google's Geocoding API helps us do that.