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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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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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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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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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FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension

Blogs - 20 days ago

John Resig and Jan Odvarko have announced something pretty darn cool, FireUnit.


FireUnit provides a simple JavaScript API for doing simple test logging and viewing within a new tab of Firebug.

The example given shows the API nicely:
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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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