December 2007
Meet Ext -- a JavaScript development framework that delivers a continuously growing structure of JavaScript classes to solve many common problems associated with developing RIAs in JavaScript. Here,... Read More
As we all enter the silly season, with family events, social evenings and all the fun of Christmas, it’s a pertinent time to reflect on how you deal with client demands. When I first started out on... Read More
The HTML5 spec looks set to introduce new audio and video capabilities into the language, but the HTML5 working group has become embroiled in a debate over the codecs that browsers should support for... Read More
Sahar Sarid of conceptualist.com knows how to run a design contest. Last week he announced the winner of the $2,500 prize money offered via the logo design contest that he ran at SitePoint (the... Read More
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group has released a last call for comments on the working draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0… again: The Web Content... Read More
As Matt Magain pointed out yesterday, Rails 2.0 is now gold! Not a lot has changed feature wise from the PR (makes sense – features were frozen at that point), although it seems that the new... Read More
Here’s my take on Facebook Beacon, the recent feature added to the popular social networking site Facebook for informing one’s friends about activities on an external site: the... Read More
Two of SitePoint’s titles have been rated the best web design books of 2007 by Canadian book review site YYZtech.ca. Rachel Andrew’s The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks &... Read More
While the SitePoint crew were busy sunning themselves by the pool on our annual Xmas trip, the Rails core team packaged up version 2.0 of the Ruby on Rails framework and released it on the world. I... Read More
Web Directions South gave Kev a chance to meet with Chris Wilson. Here, he grills Chris on Microsoft's reputation among designers and developers, finds out what's in store for IE 8, and explores why... Read More
This tidbit from the road just south of Perth as most of Team SitePoint heads for its annual Christmas getaway. Microsoft has officially announced the name of then next version of IE: Internet... Read More
Microsoft and Mozilla are locked in a war of words over whose browser has the better security track record. All Web developers seem to care about, though, is that Mozilla just released the first... Read More
As we know, HTTP – the protocol that the web is built on is stateless – meaning that every transaction with the server doesn’t know anything about the previous transactions. To get... Read More
For the third year running, 24 ways (to impress your friends), the annual advent calendar for Web designers, has begun. For the twenty-four days leading up to December 25th, the site will publish one... Read More
