News Wire: How to make HTML email rock
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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?
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Like 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!
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The 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.
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WordPress 2.2.3 contains an important security fix. Upgrade your installation immediately.
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An eye-opening peek into the password cracking technique of Rainbow Hashes, which in a recent test was able to crack the password “Fgpyyih804423” in 160 seconds. The good news is there are simple things you can do to guard against this kind of attack.
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The latest release of this somewhat experimental JavaScript semantic HTML WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) editing component is built on jQuery 1.1.4 and includes its own XHTML and CSS parsing code, rather than relying on the browser to do it.
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This call to action from Campaign Monitor, the experts in standards-compliant HTML email (or as close as it is possible to achieve these days), builds a case for HTML and CSS standards compliance in email clients, and asks you to help make it happen.
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The Campaign Monitor folks begin the process of encouraging widespread standards support for HTML email by developing a baseline list of features that we should be helping email client developers to support.
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ActiveState (yes, as in ActiveState Perl) is open sourcing large chunks of its flagship product, Komodo IDE, a complete environment for Web developers working with Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as client-side HTML/CSS/JavaScript code.
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A major new release of this nimble JavaScript library, jQuery 1.2 contains too many new features to go into here. Suffice it to say, this upgrade will make any JavaScript developer’s day.
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In enterprise news, BEA will bundle Adobe® Flex™ Builder™ 2 with BEA Workshop™ Studio. In return, Adobe will distribute evaluation licenses of BEA Weblogic Server with Adobe LiveCycle® Enterprise Suite (ES).
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In a break from long tradition, Sun will offer Windows Server OEM licenses to run on Sun x64 server hardware. It will be interesting to see if (and how) this will affect the Solaris market.
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A solid piece on how to design forms to prompt users for their name. This sounds simple, but the form of names—and how they should be used—varies wildly in different parts of the world.
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Roger Johansson provides an excellent summary of discussion within the HTML 5 working group about the fate of the alt attribute.
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A fascinating article about the structures of online social networking. It turns out they very much mirror the patterns of real-world social networks, which were described as far back as the 1940s.
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Controversy surrounding HTML table markup within the HTML 5 Working Group continues. These user testing videos not only seeks to settle the argument, but makes fascinating viewing if you haven’t a seen screen reader in use by an experienced user.
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Long thought to be un-stylable, file upload fields in HTML forms can actually be styled to look however you like with this clever JavaScript hack by Shaun Inman.
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Another excellent list from Dojo’s Alex Russell. This time, it’s a list of simple JavaScript/DOM features that would make developers’ lives so much easier.
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