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News Wire: A Blueprint for CSS Design

Slap in the Facebook: It’s Time for Social Networks to Open Up
Wired magazine puts out an open call to the web programming community to build a social networking service based on open standards like XFN.
(tags: socialnetworks standards xml)
XRAY :: for web developers
Westciv has released a free bookmarklet called XRAY that allows you to inspect the style properties of elements of a web page in Safari and Firefox. While XRAY is very slick, most developers will find Firebug is a better day-to-day tool.
(tags: software css)
Gang of Four Design Patterns - Does it stand the test of time?
A tight summary of recent discussion surrounding the classic “Gang of Four” design patterns book, and its relevance today.
(tags: programming)
YUI 2.3.0: Six New Components and a Prettier Face
Yahoo!’s recent update to the YUI library contains some pretty massive improvements: a beta rich text editor component, a beta color selection widget, dynamic dependency loading, a beta unit testing framework, and a formal skinning system!
(tags: javascript software)
MWI Team Blog - Progress for XHTML Basic 1.1
The W3C delivers XHTML Basic 1.1 as a Candidate Recommendation, closing …