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- MoFuse Instantly Converts Sites for the iPhone – MoFuse is a service that will take your website and instantly create a mobile version of it, sparing you the development costs of doing so by hand.
- The 4 Cs of Good Form Design – A simple model, the 4 Cs, for designing new forms or critiquing existing ones.
- Lawsuit targets Network Solutions, ICANN over the 'front running' of domain names – A Los Angeles firm this afternoon has announced a class action against Network Solutions and ICANN over the former's practice of locking up domain names as soon as they are searched for on its site
- BlazeDS – Released in conjunction with Adobe AIR 1 and Flex 3, BlazeDS is an open source backend for connecting AIR and Flex applications to server-side data sources.
- Adobe AIR and Adobe Flex 3 Now Available – They’re out! Full press release here.
- The Rise of Click Fraud: Is Everyone on the Internet a Criminal? – The overall industry average click fraud rate rose to 16.6% in fourth-quarter [2007], up from the 14.2% click fraud rate for the same quarter in 2006 and 16.2% for third-quarter 2007.
- All clicks are not equal, says Microsoft …
News Wire: Google’s Colorful Logo, jQuery Reference, and more
- Social Media Buzz Pocket Mining: The New Keyword Research – An interesting description of tools that take the temperature of a social community's “chatter” patterns.
- Beware of id and name attribute mixups when using getElementById in Internet Explorer – "When using getElementById to get a reference to an element via the id attribute, Internet Explorer for Windows (and some versions of Opera) will also match an element whose name attribute contains the same value."
- Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 3 Release Notes – "Firefox 3 Beta 3 includes approximately 1300 individual changes from the previous beta, including fixes for stability, performance, memory usage, platform enhancements and user interface improvements."
- GWT-Ext 2.0 Released – The GWT-EXT team has announced the release of version 2.0 this week. The project is a combination of the Google Web Kit and Ext.
- 6% of users click 50% of all ads – This study illustrates that heavy clickers represent just 6% of the online population, yet account for 50% of all display ad clicks.
- Handy jQuery API Reference – A simple, useful reference guide for the jQuery API.
- Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth – Yahoo! launches surprisingly reasonably priced web hosting for small and medium …
News Wire: Safari Speeds Up AND Gets Web Fonts!
It’s been a while between drinks. Luckily, we’re back. There’s been a lot going on across the intarwebs lately — check it out:
- $1.2m paid for the letter ’s’ in a domain
A British travel company has paid $US1.1 million ($A1.2m) for the domain name cruises.co.uk, a price that is effectively $1 million just for the letter “S” since it already owns the address cruise.co.uk.
(tags: domain valuation) - uTest – Software Testing Community
A software testing tool based on the “crowdsourcing” business model.
(tags: testing crowdsourcing development software qa) - Yahoo Offers All-You-Can-Eat Storage and Bandwidth
Yahoo! launches surprisingly reasonably priced web hosting for small and medium sized businesses. Unlimited storage and bandwidth for $11.95 per month!
(tags: hosting yahoo!) - Safari is about to get crazy fast
Holy cow is this thing fast! I am currently testing Webkit build r30090 (DMG download link) against standard Leopard Safari 3.04. This unoptimized WebKit build version is running circles around the standard Safari browser. It isn’t even close.
(tags: apple safari browser firefox) - W3C Gets Excessive DTD Traffic
The W3C is suffering from its own success. If only developers could get a handle on XML catalogs, …
News Wire: Yahoo! Acquires Zimbra, WordPress 2.3, and more
- Is your website greenhouse friendly?The organizers of the Web Directions South conference share their advice for Australian-hosted sites seeking to eliminate their carbon footprint.(tags: business hosting )
- Google Presentations ReleasedGoogle has launched the latest in its stable of web-based office applications: Google Presentations. A direct competitor to Microsoft PowerPoint, Presentations is still a simple offering, but may be enough for many less demanding users.(tags: google ajax gwt )
- Facebook investors start $10 million fund for developersFacebook will be giving away $10 million to developers who submit worthy proposals for Facebook applications—no strings attached!(tags: socialnetworks php business )
- Yahoo! Acquires ZimbraYahoo! acquires all the coolest companies! The latest (joining Flickr and del.icio.us) is Zimbra, the pioneers of Ajax-powered email. Yahoo! hopes to use Zimbra to break into educational and institutional markets.(tags: yahoo! ajax java business )
- Mozilla tries Firefox recipe with ThunderbirdMozilla is splitting off a new company to focus on the development of Thunderbird, its open-source, cross-platform desktop email client.(tags: business opensource firefox )
- CSS Grid Positioning Module Level 3A convincing alternative to the …
News Wire: How to make HTML email rock
- +1.5 Years: Where Are We Now?The Dojo Toolkit’s Alex Russell notes the amount of time that has passed since IE7 was released, and how little has been said by Microsoft about IE.Next. Is Microsoft working on something amazing in secret, or is IE at risk of renewed stagnation?(tags: ie microsoft )
- Screen Shots And Feature Overview of Delicious 2.0 PreviewLike the SitePoint Design Contests, Delicious (formerly del.icio.us) is launching a complete re-write of the service to improve the scalability and agility of the system. A complete rewrite means a complete redesign, however, with plenty of new features!(tags: socialnetworks yahoo! )
- Mobile Usability Tips #1 – Registration and LoginThe first in a series of tips on enhancing the usability of mobile web sites, this brief article provides hints on how to design usable registration and login forms for mobile web sites.(tags: mobile design usability )
- WordPress 2.2.3WordPress 2.2.3 contains an important security fix. Upgrade your installation immediately.(tags: security php software )
- Rainbow Hash CrackingAn eye-opening peek into the password cracking technique of Rainbow Hashes, which in a recent test was able to crack the …
News Wire: Two New Opera Releases
- Update to Internet Explorer’s Cookie JarThe latest auto update to Interent Explorer increases the limit on the number of cookies per domain from 20 to 50. The total size limitation of 4KB of cookie data per domain remains unchanged.(tags: ie http )
- Forbidden Color Combinations?The COLOURlovers site has a fascinating article showing off color combinations that traditionally don’t work, but in specific cases actually do.(tags: design )
- Google Gears 0.2 developer release ready for downloadGoogle has a developer preview of Google Gears 0.2 Beta, its browser extension for building offline-capable apps for Firefox and IE6. The new release offers a cross-origin API and improvements to WorkerPool, including XMLHttpRequest and Timer support.(tags: google javascript software ajax )
- Top Ten Mistakes of Shopping Cart Design Revisited: A Survey of 500 Top E-Commerce WebsitesA list of common mistakes with e-commerce shopping cart design were identified in a 2002 usability study. This article revisits that list and reviews how 500 of the top Internet retail sites of today implemented their shopping cart design.(tags: usability design )
- Lazy Function Definition PatternA classic example of a functional programming pattern in JavaScript. …
News Wire: 27 things you don’t know about PHP
- GWT 1.4 release and out of betaThe latest release of Google Web Toolkit is out, and this is the first release not marked as Beta! As usual, the release is full of must-have improvements, including fundamental improvements to application size and performance.(tags: java javascript google gwt software opensource )
- Plone 3.0 released!A major update to the venerable Python CMS based on the Zope framework , Plone 3.0 includes many powerful new features, including document versioning, inline (Ajax) editing, link checking, and tons more!(tags: python opensource software )
- 12 Things You Should Dislike About PHPAnother impressive list of things you may not know about PHP, this time focusing on the annoying foibles of the language.(tags: php )
- 15 Cool Things About PHP That Most People OverlookFar from another lame collection of semi-obscure PHP functions, this list of language features will likely contain at least a few mind-blowing items for all but the most seasoned of PHP veterans.(tags: php )
- The IPhone Is IE4 Again (in a good way)Joe Hewitt (of Firebug and iUI fame) speaks out against those …
News Wire: A Blueprint for CSS Design
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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MWI Team Blog – Progress for XHTML Basic 1.1
The W3C delivers XHTML Basic 1.1 as a Candidate Recommendation, closing …
News Wire: Google’s New Meta Tag
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ACCC takes on Google
Google is facing charges from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission claiming that the difference between sponsored links and organic search results is unclear and misleading.
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Google To Add “Unavailable After” META Tag
Google plans to introduce support in its search engine for an “unavailable_after” meta tag that will let Google know when a page’s contents will no longer be relevant.
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Conflicting Absolute Positions
A fascinating article about an improvement in IE7 that has gone largely unnoticed until now. Better support for CSS positioning in IE7 makes the creation of stretchy layouts much easier, and with a big of JavaScript IE5/6 can be made to play nice too.
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Google Gears ORM v0.1
The first official release of GearsORM, the first object-relational mapping layer built on top of Google Gears.
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CSRF Redirector
In his ongoing efforts to spread the word that Cross-Site Request Forgery vulnerabilities are a real danger, Chris Shiflett has developed a simple script that generates a forged POST request out of any GET request. …
News Wire: PHP 4’s Days are Numbered
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Dojo 0.9 lands softly.
Dojo 0.9 beta is out with a significant speed boost, pervasive improvements to accessibility (including keyboard navigation), a revamped and consistent themeing engine for widgets, and redesigned online documentation.
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30 free HTML email templates
The fine folks at Freshview (and Campaign Monitor) have assembled a collection of 30 clean, free, and highly compatible HTML email templates for download—no strings attached.
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Presentation Layer Performance Tuning
This article provides a nice summary of client-side performance issues and the solutions available for solving them.
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HTML elements index
A table of HTML tags, with their availability in HTML 3.2, HTML 4.01, XHTML 1.0, as well as the work-in-progress specs, XHTML 1.1, HTML 5, and XHTML 2.0.
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Ultimate htaccess Blacklist
An interesting approach to combatting comment spam and bandwidth theft, this .htaccess blacklist will also block legitimate users of mass download and screen scraper products such as GetRight. Whether this is an acceptable tradeoff is up to you.
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Web Application Form Design
A fascinating look at …
