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IE8 December Release and Accessibility

Blogs - 27 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 - 27 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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CSS Spriting without background-image

Blogs - 27 days ago

Jennifer Semter has published an article on CSS spriting, and a cross-browser technique that uses divs, anchors, and clipping to get the same effect as background image clipping. The reason for the new technique is due to the issues with the current approach:


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nib2cib: Use Interface Builder to design your Ajax apps

Blogs - 27 days ago

Tom Robinson has created an interesting new tool called nib2cib that could lead to you being able to use Interface Builder to create Ajax frontends.

nib2cib is a command line tool designed for converting Cocoa’s nibs and xibs to Cappuccino’s cibs. It is still very much a work in progress read more

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Common Feature Tests

Blogs - 28 days ago

Kangax has written about his new Common Feature Tests project:

I have been working on a little personal project of mine for the past couple of months. It’s called CFT and stands for Common Feature Tests. There’s nothing really ground-breaking about it; CFT is simply a set of so-called fe read more

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Pegs: Automate display: fixed++

Blogs - 28 days ago

Chris Wetherell (the chap who kicked off Google Reader in his apartment) has posted about Pegs a pattern for having one scrollbar but independent scrolling areas.
It is more than display: fixed in that it can be smart. If you visit the demo you will see it in action. After the first time, clic read more

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YUI3 PR2 now available - extendable with own widgets and plugins

Blogs - 28 days ago

Over at the YUI blog Satyen Desai just announced the release of YUI3 PR2. The main changes are that the widgets from YUI2 are now all getting ported over to the new, leaner YUI3 architecture and that the team made it much easier to write your own YUI widgets and plugins extending the existing ones. read more

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WaveMaker IDE offers deployment to Amazon

Blogs - 28 days ago

WaveMaker, the IDE that Dojo helped build (with a ton of work from the team) has added support for cloud deployment to Amazon:

The biggest problem with cloud development platforms to date has been lack of portability. For example, what if I want to move my cloud application from Coghead read more

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Psych Desktop soon to become more Lucid

Blogs - 28 days ago

We heard from Will of the Psych Desktop project as he ran across our coverage of other Web desktop apps. He shared with us his project that is part of the Dojo Foundation which you can check out here.
He had some good thoughts, so I thought I would pass them along below:

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Appcelerator Titanium: Breathing AIR for the Open Web

Blogs - 29 days ago

The Appcelerator folks have a big announcement today. They are announcing an early release of Appcelerator Titanium which is easiest if you think of it as an "Open Web version of Adobe AIR" in that it is a runtime that has extended APIs that allows developers to create applications using Web techno read more

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