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Why Palm’s webOS is the future of Android (and desktop computing)
Do you connect these dots in the same way I do?
The current practice in OSs and browsers of asking the user at install time whether ...
[January 28th by david]
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Firebug-like dev tool for Safari 3
Haven't tried it yet, but at first glance looks pretty useful: http://www.simplebits.com/notebook/2008/03/18/safari.html
[March 20th by david]
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Great advice from xml.com about XHTML gotchas
There's a great post on xml.com about getting XHTML markup right. A sampling:
Any styles defined on the body element should be defined on the html ...
[January 7th by david]
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Steve Souders’ 14 rules for faster-loading websites
Within a few years, if you notice in Firebug that a site doesn't adhere to these, you should ask yourself why...
http://stevesouders.com/hpws/rules.php
These rules are an excerpt ...
[December 31st by david]
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Top 7 most common mistakes with Javascript syntax
Ok, my basis for saying "most common" is not at all scientific, just a gut sense of how many times I've seen 15 mins or ...
[December 13th by david]
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An alternative to using eval() to reify JSON strings
If you have a page that uses a JSON API, don't reify the JSON response strings using eval(). If it's an external API, you can't ...
[December 12th by david]
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The Enter key: Making a mess of submit buttons and textboxes
If one has a submit button in an HTML form, then pressing Enter will trigger the first of these in doc order, as though one ...
[November 28th by david]
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Simplifying markup and CSS selectors through “semantic” tags
In a brown bag yesterday, Kevin Lawver suggested a best practice for DHTML: Prefer "semantic" markup instead of overuse of div. The principles are:
If ...
[November 15th by david]
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How to configure CDNs in YSlow
From Ian Holsman:
in firefox got to about:config
right click on the white box and select New > String
Name: extensions.firebug.yslow.cdnHostnames
Value: (comma-delimited list of domains)
now it will count ...
[November 2nd by david]
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Memory leaks due to iframes in IE (also how to file-upload via dojo)
1) Changing the src of an iframe in IE may cause later events to fire multiple times - once for each change of src. See ...
[November 2nd by david]
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Trick IE into reserving a connection for Comet traffic
"Comet" is a dhtml technique for sending updates from the server to a browser client. One way to do it is to place a hidden ...
[November 2nd by david]
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IE6 doesn’t support onclick handlers for <option>
Instead, you have to use an onchange handler in the SELECT, like this:
<html>
<head>
<script>
function fAlertA() { alert('A'); }
function fAlertB() { alert('B'); }
function fHandleActionSelection(nSelect)
{
var iOptionIndex = nSelect.selectedIndex;
if ...
[November 2nd by david]
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Don’t use <nobr> in XHTML
<nobr> isn't valid XHTML. Instead, use <span class="nobr"> where
.nobr {
white-space: nowrap;
}
I found this at a very useful site:
http://enure.net/css-and-xhtml/#using-nobr
[November 2nd by david]
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