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March 2007
Why Apollo?
Mike Chambers posted a VERY LENGTHY discussion of the history and benefits of the Adobe Apollo technologies. I haven't even read this yet, it's long, no doubt full of useful tidbits...
Sniff! (Browser Detection)
Dean Edwards posts a nice, no make that VERY nice way to detect IE via JavaScript using conditional compilation. Wicked cool.
The Open Web and Its Adversaries
Mozilla's Brendan Eich posts about the future of the Open Web vs. a ... closed Web. Interesting read.
Simple HTML Based Apollo Example
Mike Chambers posts an early sample Apollo code set using HTML and JavaScript. You know, as opposed to Flex and ActionScript.
IE Netrenderer
Cool, free, real time IE screen shots of any given URL on demand. Great for browser testing if you don't have access to a PC tricked out with multiple IE's or the like.
Rules For JavaScript Library Authors
Dean Edwards publishes rules that he thinks all JavaScript library authors should adhere to.
13 Ways to Avoid Building Web Applications That Suck
Pretty cool and useful simple list of ways to build better Web sites. I love lists like this which can drive lots of change after a simple review.
SXSWi '07 Flickr Pool
If you're like me, you didn't quite make it to South By Southwest Interactive 2007. Oh well. But there's lots and lots of pictures!
Cross Browser Keyboard Handler
Cool script which aims to simplify the problems with cross-browser keyboard event handling. Click.
Javascript Functions, Accelerated Introduction
Pretty cool introduction to JavaScript functions, some scope discussion, anonymous functions, examples of closures and self-executing functions. Cool stuff with a few examples I hadn't seen before.
CSS and PNG Color Shades
The excellent Christopher Schmitt talks about a CSS and PNG-based technique for semi-transparent color shades over top of images and for use elsewhere. Pretty sweet.
Enabling Strict Warnings
Aaron over at clientside (CNet) discusses clean JavaScript code and enabling strict warnings in Firefox in order to help do it. Extensions can help, but they can also get in the way.
getElementsByClassName Speed Comparison
John Resig does tests on various implementations of getElementsByClassName. What's fast? The one's that use XPath, to be sure, however Firefox 3's implementation wins hands down. Let's hear it for native code.
Pattern Matching and Regular Expressions in JavaScript
Pretty good (older) overview of JavaScript Regular Expressions. If you can grok RegEx. Uh, yeah.
Adobe Labs Kuler Color Tool
Adobe Lab's Kuler tool is a great free, color palette tool. I'm really bad at colors so this sort of thing is great for me. Plus it's just fun to play with.