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PNG support in IE6 that reclaims background repetition and position

Blogs - 23 days ago

Drew Diller has created a helper library in the "yup, you still have to get things working in IE 6" department. DD_belatedPNG adds PNG support to IE6 that works with background-repeat and background-position.
You just do this:
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Extending jQuery selectors with JavaScript

Blogs - 23 days ago

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// Flag images upon load:


$('img').load(function(){


    $(this).data('loaded',true);


});


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App Discover: An add-on to aid discoverability in the browser

Blogs - 23 days ago

Snuck over this post about getting better discoverability into the browser from me personal blog
Greasemonkey and Fluid userscripts. AIR and the new Titanium apps. Browser add-ons. When you go to a website do you know if you are getting the best experience for you? You could search for script read more

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YQL - converting the web to JSON with mock SQL

Blogs - 25 days ago

I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and beautiful soup or roll your own hell of regular expressions. Alternatively [...] read more

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The fundamental problems with CSS3

Blogs - 26 days ago

Matt Wilcox thinks that there are fundamental problems with CSS3 and he shared his thoughts. He starts by giving us some history of CSS and then gets into the meat:

Why the Cascade is no longer enough
HTML has been re-purposed to represent only the semantic properties of the page. B read more

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More JavaScript Inheritance; Prototypes vs. Closures

Blogs - 26 days ago

Steffen Rusitschka has a nice detailed post on inheritance with JavaScript, different ways you can go, and side effects of the decision.
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Travians: Sims meets Cultures, with Ajax

Blogs - 26 days ago

Steve Mattison let us know about a new AJAX game has been released by the makers of that old popular PHP-based village building game Travian. This one is more like Sims meets Cultures, and it is called Travians:

“Travians is a browser game in which you rise to the challenge of
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Cappuccino 0.6 Released

Blogs - 26 days ago

The Cappucinno team has a new release, 0.6 that include:

New language addition to Objective-J: The @accessors keyword to eliminate the boiler plate code of writing setters and getters. Read more about it here.
Support for more classes like CPTimer.
Performance improvements all read more

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IE8 December Release and Accessibility

Blogs - 26 days ago

The IE8 team let their partners know about a December "Partner Build" that contains the following changes since IE8b2:
Accessibility-ARIA
ARIA attribute names containing dashes, such as “aria-checked”, no longer have to be referenced by their camelCased equivalent (ariaChecked) in IE 7 Mo read more

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SmartMarkUp: Universal Markup Editor

Blogs - 26 days ago

Joseph Woods of PHPCow sent us a note about SmartMarkUP, a “universal markup editor”:

SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript library that allows you to turn any textarea into a fancy markup editor. HTML, CSS, XML, Wiki syntax, BBCode or any other desired markup read more

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