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April 2007
What Happens in Quirks Mode?
Great article which outlines some of the behaviors which are different between Quirks Mode and Standards/Strict mode. Course, if you're still building in Quirks mode, you'll read this and be like, “so?” What's interesting to me is that the top issues are IE issues... yeah.
Flex goes Open Source
Quick write up with links on Adobe open sourcing Flex. Pretty slick move, Adobe. I'm just wondering if they were planning that before MS released WPF/E? Not like that was a surprise, you could see it miles away. Maybe an attempt to get eyeballs?
Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation
BorkWeb has an article over there talking about how you can speed up page loading by combining images. I was all excited and then I saw one example had a spacer.gif. Hmmm, might not need that though, it doesn't have to be image replacement. Is this different from CSS Sprites, or no?
hAccessibility
James Craig over at the Web Standards Project discusses when Microformats and accessibility don't get along so harmoniously.
Interesting...I never would have thought.
Web Design Survey
A List Apart hosts a soon to be annual survey of Web designers and Web professionals, in an attempt to learn more about our industry. Only time will tell, but I'll probably fill it out...
Coda Web Dev App
New Web development application for Mac OSX. People are raving about it. I can't use it, I haven't made the switch yet, but I'm getting real close ...
Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using
Dustin Diaz has an article over at Digital Web on seven techniques you should be using today in your scripts. But, I guess the title tells you that.
POSH - New Term
Plain Old Semantic HTML. Nice ring to it.
JavaScript Closures for Dummies
Great explanation of JavaScript closures with examples. For dummies like Me.
Proposal to Adopt HTML5
The WHATWG has officially offered to hand over their work products to the new W3C working group. We'll see ...
Apollo ActionScript Cheat Sheets
ActionScriptCheatSheet.com? Who knew. These new cheat sheets contain info about the new features in the language being introduced indirectly as a result of Apollo. Very nice indeed.
Name Your Best IE7 Bug Resources
Molly posts and asks people to link to their favorite IE7 bug resources. Let the onslaught begin.
Principles of Beautiful Web Design
Great overview of the steps and issues which go into design. Nice for someone like me who only plays a designer on TV, and then, only once or twice a year if I'm lucky.
Microsoft Best Practices Analyzer for SharePoint
A little scary they need to release software which addresses this, probably since it's so hard without software. But hey, still sounds sorta useful if it's actually helpful.
Towards Secure Ajax Mashups
Ajaxian points to a Brent Ashley article on security with Ajax and so forth.
SimpleBits Logo Ripoff
On April Fools day, a whole slew of sites ripped off the SimpleBits logo in honor of the recent scandal involving Dan's logo being... ripped off. Too funny...
Molly Update on Microsoft
Latest update from Molly over at the IEBlog on what her priorities are and how things are shaping up. Go Molly go.
Improvements in IIS7
Blog post about the new architectural improvements in Microsoft is shipping in IIS 7. URL rewriting here we come. Hazah.
Five Ajax Anti-patterns
Over at Ajaxian they posted 5 Ajax “Anti” patterns, meaning things you just should not be doing.