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Whatever? make sure your :hover works for everyone

Blogs - 16 days ago

Peter Nederlof just released version 3 of whatever:hover, his library that makes sure that :hover works just fine for the IE browsers out there.
The new version is faster, better documented, uses a CSS trick with expressions in IE to trigger the hover events in IE and now has Ajax support! (th read more

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mimeparse: now in JavaScript

Blogs - 16 days ago

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Mimeparse.bestMatch(['application/xbel+xml', 'text/xml'], 'text/*;q=0.5,*/*; q=0.1');


 





The above code is from a JavaScript port of Joe Gregorio' read more

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Write your own Yahoo! BrowserPlus service with new SDK

Blogs - 18 days ago

Lloyd Hilalel and the Yahoo! BrowserPlus team have released a BrowserPlus SDK which allows you to easily create your own services:

We're extremely happy to announce the availability of the BrowserPlus SDK. This first SDK and the accompanying documentation gives you all the tools you'll n read more

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Adobe AIR v1.5 Shows Linux the Love

Blogs - 19 days ago

Adobe has been bashed pretty hard in the past for their lack of Linux support in both Flash and AIR (deservedly so). It was a segment of the development and user market that really wanted to leverage Adobe technology but pretty much had their hands tied. It’s evident that Adobe is listening a read more

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This Week in HTML 5: onbeforeunload leading to script groups

Blogs - 19 days ago

Mark Pilgrim has a new episode of This Week in HTML 5 that covers the onbeforeunload event. To get there, a lot happened, which Hixie explained:

Someone asked for onbeforeunload, so I started fixing it. Then I found that there was some rot in the drywall. So I took down the drywall. T read more

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DWR 3.0 near final release with RC

Blogs - 19 days ago

Joe Walker and team have announced the first RC for DWR 3.0. We asked Joe to tell us what is new:

DWR now supports:

varargs
method overloading
typed parameters
binary file upload/download
it has a set of new types it can marshall

DWR will let you read more

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Browser version 10 the new Y2K

Blogs - 19 days ago

Here is a fun one for Friday, Hallvord Steen discusses the error reports coming in for Opera 10 that are to do with the version number.
That’s right, it appears that a number of people use the first character as the version number, which means that Opera 10 is showing up as Opera 1:
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Pixastic: JavaScript Image Manipulation Library

Blogs - 20 days ago

Pixastic uses <canvas>'s ability to expose raw pixel information to perform Photoshop-style image manipulation effects all in your standards-based browser. For an example of Pixastic in action, the library's authors have built a cute little Photoshop clone in a browser:

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DLINK: automatic link annotation

Blogs - 20 days ago

David King has created a small JavaScript library dlink that styles your links to let the user know if the link is internal, external, a subdomain, an anchor on the same page, or an email link.

To setup, you can simply:
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Steve’s State of Performance 2008

Blogs - 20 days ago

Steve Souders has a nice performance roundup for 2008 that details some of the important utilities and knowledge that we gained this year.
His post gets even more interesting when he posits about the future, including:

Visibility into the Browser: Packet sniffers (like HTTPWatch, Fi read more

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