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From the Safari crew, this is one of the most well-reasoned and pragmatic takes on the whole HTML vs XHTML debate I have yet seen. In short, Safari recommends you stick with HTML 4 for now, and the article notes that Mozilla recommends the same.
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Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library blogger Jack Slocum has put together an impressive interface for phpBB that looks like a desktop email app. It needs a fallback mode of operation for users with JavaScript disabled, but otherwise it’s way cool!
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IE6 causes CSS background-image rollovers to flicker in an unflattering fashion, and a number of hacky solutions have been known for some time. Now, at last, there is an easy-to-apply fix! Why haven’t we heard about this from Microsoft before now?
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TIBCO GI is an AJAX component framework for building desktop-like web applications. Until this latest release, it was IE-only, but it now supports Firefox 1.5, and is free for all uses. It still lacks support for other browsers, but impressive anyway!
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An informative interview on the newly-released free-and-Firefoxy TIBCO GI.
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Danger! Danger! Flash lets you make cross-domain requests if the target domain says you’re allowed to. A number of high-profile sites allow anyone to make such requests, thereby opening their doors to cross-site request forgeries (CSRF attacks).
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More on the widespread Flash cross-domain security vulnerability.
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An excellent quick-reference to every nook and cranny of Ruby on Rails. Print it out and keep it on your desk if you plan to be coding Rails apps on a regular basis. [via freelancing_god]
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If you thought cleaning up circular references on unload in IE was all it took to avoid JavaScript memory leaks, think again. This post offers a tool for spotting leaks, and three simple steps for avoiding them in your own code.
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Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.
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A brief account (and links to more detail) about the Firefox development team’s visit to Microsoft.
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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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