Industry Links
Who Questions Bill Gates’ Commitment to Web Standards? Molly Holzchlag was among a number of high-profile bloggers invited to discuss the issues of the day with a number of Microsoft insiders,... Read More
Google Blatantly Copies Yahoo!? Google has apparently ripped off Yahoo!’s page to market a branded version of Internet Explorer 7. The designs match very closely, and the screenshot has been... Read More
kuler Wicked-cool color theme creation tool from Adobe Labs. Generate themes using different color combination algorithms, rate themes that other users have shared, and download any theme you like... Read More
Anatomy of a Drag and Drop An enlightening breakdown of just what makes a JavaScript-powered drag-and-drop effect work, and how the implementations of the major JavaScript libraries (script.aculo.us,... Read More
Resolution vs. browser size vs. fixed or adaptive width An excellent collection of links to the current thinking on fixed width vs fluid width layouts (and the grey areas in between). (tags: css... Read More
It’s official: GWT 1.2 released The new release enables development under MacOS X in addition to the previously supported Windows and Linux environments, and significantly speeds up the hosted... Read More
script.aculo.us 1.6.5 The last release of the script.aculo.us JavaScript effects library before Ruby on Rails 1.2, 1.6.5 includes some nice fixes as well as Effect.Event—a clever new feature that... Read More
Pyjamas: Pythons answer to GWT Just as the Google Web Toolkit lets you write JavaScript-powered web UIs by writing Java code, Pyjamas lets you write JavaScript-powered web UIs by writing Python code.... Read More
Feeling validated The W3C recently removed the ability to view the document outline (including heading structure) from its HTML validator. It turns out this useful feature is now available as a part... Read More
The Impending Ruby Fracture Development of the official Ruby VM is proving to be slow and buggy, while three new competitors (JRuby, Ruby.NET, and Rubeneus) are gaining ground. With no official... Read More
Reinventing HTML W3C Director Tim Berners-Lee addresses the state of HTML, and how the wholesale switch to XHTML with no further work on non-XML HTML has failed, and how the W3C’s approach will... Read More
Getting Real, the book, now comes in three flavors 37signals re-releases its popular ebook, Getting Real, in print-on-demand paperback and as a free HTML version for online viewing. (tags: business)... Read More
Mozilla Firefox 2 Firefox 2.0 was launched today, featuring a refined user experience and a great many new developer features. (tags: firefox software opensource) From Redmond With Love The Microsoft... Read More
I think IE7 is going to break language negotiation on many servers An IE 7 change that was announced at the last minute was a change in the behaviour of locale-based content negotiation (serving a... Read More
