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An excellent collection of links to the current thinking on fixed width vs fluid width layouts (and the grey areas in between).
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Using Microsoft’s proprietary CSS expressions in your screen style sheet will see those property values applied when printing as well, despite your having a completely separate print style sheet.
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script.aculo.us 1.7 beta 1 is out, and includes new CSS morphing effects. Specify a new set of CSS properties that an element should morph to, and script.aculo.us will take care of animating its colors, border sizes, and more.
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JavaScript guru Dean Edwards discovers a way around difficulties with extending JavaScript’s Array object in Internet Explorer by stealing an iframe’s copy of the Array object. Dean suggests this technique might resolve inter-script interference entirely.
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Following up on Dean Edwards’s breakthrough using an iframe to extend the Array object, Hedger Wang instead uses the IE-only window.createPopup and thereby avoids having to use the iframe hack in browsers where it is not needed.
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Though a little difficult to navigate, this example-driven primer to the Mootools JavaScript library is a great way of getting up to speed.
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Extensions for both the Prototype and jQuery libraries that let you capture and respond to mouse scroll wheel events on HTML elements.
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The powerful MVC framework for PHP 5 sees its first major update in awhile. As updates go, this one certainly does impress with plenty of new features.
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Dojo makes available its most commonly-used functionality from a single, centralized URL. Sites can now all share this centralized copy, which will sit happily in the browser cache. Additional functionality can be loaded with dojo.require() as usual.
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37signals proposes another useful design pattern: when dynamically changing the content of a page, display the title as white text in a black box.
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A spiffy tool that converts a chunk of HTML code into the JavaScript instructions to add it dynamically to the page using standards-compliant DOM techniques, instead of quick-and-dirty innerHTML.
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Kevin YankKevin Yank is an accomplished web developer, speaker, trainer and author of Build Your Own Database Driven Website Using PHP & MySQL and Co-Author of Simply JavaScript and Everything You Know About CSS is Wrong! Kevin loves to share his wealth of knowledge and it didn't stop at books, he's also the course instructor to 3 online courses in web development. Currently Kevin is the Director of Front End Engineering at Culture Amp.
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