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November 2006
Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox
This screen reader for Firefox assists accessibility for users due to its actual support for Aural CSS, which most screen readers don't even support.
IE expressions ignore CSS media types
Roger Johansson evaluates how IE ingores some media types in CSS, particularly where proprietary expressions are concerned.
Performance Research, Part 1: What the 80/20 Rule Tells Us about Reducing HTTP Requests
Yahoo investigates and reports on what can be done to optimize HTTP requests and response times during page loads.
Wake Up and Smell the IE7
Great summary of issues and solutions coming up when designing and developing for IE7.
Anatomy of a Drag and Drop
Step by step what goes into building a JavaScript drag and drop implementation. Has a final example.
AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries
Great collection and list of 60 or so JavaScript and Ajax frameworks.
An Event Apart, Boston 2007
I feel like if they're coming to Boston I should go. Hmmm ...
Concept: Four Layers of Web Development
A four tiered, layered description of Web development parts. Another level to behavior, design, and structure. Great graphic is linked from this article.
JavaScript We Hardly New Ya
More excellent Douglas Crockford on JavaScript and the usage of the “new” operator for object construction -- or better yet, when not to use it.
Optimizing Page Load Performance
Interesting tips on speeding up page load performance, both on the browser/client side as well as the server.
Global Domination
The always excellent Douglas Crockford from Yahoo! on why global variables in JavaScript are EVIL.
Speeding up AJAX with JSON
Nice succinct article which shows simple examples of the JSON data format (as opposed to XML) usage with Ajax.
Exclude Yourself from Google Analytics
Handy script to generate a cookie to help create a unique visitor segment that you can filter out from Google Analytics. Better than dealing w/ ISP settings or dynamic IPs...
How to generate conditional comments when using XSLT
Explanation of how to generate Microsoft Internet Explorer's conditional comments when using XSLT to generate your site's pages.
BehaviorS.js Events Library
Interesting looking, and very small behaviour-like JavaScript events library.
Resources for Learning jQuery
Great collection of some obvious but also some obscure links for reference materials on the great jQuery JavaScript library.
Next Version of Moo.Fx Released
The next version of the ultra-lightweight JavaScript library Moo.Fx has been released, with many enhancements and new features, all again, really, really small.
Em Unit Calculator
This thing rocks. This will show your relative EM units based off the base browser default, when you add nested children and so forth. I haven't actually tested to see for accuracy, however, it's looking pretty good.