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January 2007
Enhance Your (Page) Performance
Exceptional article over at Vitamin on page load performance and tricks you can use to make it faster. More Yahoo! research. Yahoo!
Unfolding the Fold
Specific data collected on users page scrolling data with regard to page size, the notion of “above the fold” in Web design, etc. People are scrolling, get over it.
jsPax - A JavaScript Package System
Interesting library dedicated to simple imports of JavaScript libraries. Also called “Lazy Loading” of JavaScript. Load only what you need, pay for what you use and no more.
Douglas Crockford on JavaScript - In Video
Douglas Crockford is Yahoo!'s JavaScript Architect. He's a very smart guy. They've been posting videos of some of his JavaScript presentations, and I'm posting this because I must remember that they're available in iPod format. Yeah baby.
Firebug 1.0 Released
Joe Hewitt has finally released the 1.0 final release of Firebug. I had the honor of helping test some early betas, and while I wish I could have helped out more I was able to immediately confirm this was the best new tool available for Web developers everywhere in troubleshooting your site. Be sure to check it out, you won't regret it for one second.
Flash vs. Ajax
Excellent opinion on how to approach building Rich Internet Applications (RIA's). Right tool for the right job. Right?
53 CSS-Techniques
Pretty cool listing of CSS techniques you can use in your daily design and development lives. Some better than others.
The Story of XMLHttp
As told by a Microsoftie who helped implement it in the browser. Exchange server indeed.
Prototype 1.5 Cheatsheet
Nicely put together cheat sheet for the Prototype JavaScript framework. Now available in both PDF and PNG format. Yeehaw.
Firefox 3 Plans and IE8 Speculation
Interesting look at some thoughts around the potentially different paths IE8 and FF3 may take. Pure speculation that IE8 will introduce a slew of proprietary features. Yeah.
Ajax Debugging with Firebug
Joe Hewitt writes a great overview of debugging in Firebug for Dr. Dobb's. If you don't have it, Firebug is the one developer extension for Firefox you need to use...
Styling form controls with CSS, revisited
456 Berea Street does it again with a total and fundamentally comprehensive looks at what can be done to style HTML form controls, and what they look like in many, many browsers. Wow.
Building ASP.NET 2.0 Web Sites Using Web Standards
Excellent resource over at MSDN on building ASP.NET-based Web sites using Web Standards and standards-based techniques. It's a start, what more can you say.
Full Review of Windows Vista
The definitive end to end, full on review of everything Windows Vista. If you're wondering and not sure what the fuss is about. Did I mention I might be getting a Mac?
Performance Research, Part 2: Browser Cache Usage - Exposed!
Yahoo! continues it's examination of various browser performance related issues. This time they take on the cache and expose some new research.
Favorite JavaScript Idioms
Youngpup on examples of closures, scope, currying, Function.apply. Wow.
comp.lang.javascript FAQ
Jibbering also has the JavaScript language newsgroup FAQ, full of great tid-bits.
JavaScript Closures
Exceptional article covering all things about JavaScript Closure patterns. Also covers a great deal about prototypes as well as execution scope.
Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby
Awesome collected list of Cheat Sheets for almost endless languages and environments, from Apache to Microformats. Great stuff.
The Path to jQuery 1.1
John Resig has posted over on the jQuery blog about the coming changes to the jQuery framework for 1.1. It's NOT backwards compatible, which is bound to rub someone the wrong way, but at least they're creating a plugin to help ease the transition.
456 Berea Street highlights of 2006
Roger Johansson lists what he considers his most popular and relevant links and articles created over at 456 Berea Street. The site is a great resource and this is a great collection of articles.
CSS-Based Tables
50 modern examples of designing and marking up HTML tables with CSS. Some nice ones in there.
Sitemaps and SEO
Little article on the what is becoming industry standards for sitemap.xml files. Contains some valuable linkage.