Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome:
Chromium can’t be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to [...]
Now this could only fly on a Friday 
Ed Spencer has coded up a bra size calculator in JavaScript:
One of the more mesmerizing websites I’ve worked on recently was for a lingerie boutique in the UK. Aside from the unenviable task of having to look at pictures of women in lingerie all day, I was [...]
Greg Reimer is doing really interesting work with reglib and he now has a neutral post on events and how he favours the pattern of mouse enter / leave to mouse over / out.
He shows an example using the pyramid illustrations (as above) and then ends with:
The title of this post is a bit misleading. [...]
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<!doctype html>
That is what HTML 5 defines, and Dustin Diaz agrees as he lays down the skinny:
Doctypes have long been in standardista discussions circles. Why to use them. Which one to use. Which one is best. These are all <sarcasm>really fun details</sarcasm> to get into, but the most important aspect of any doctype is [...]
If you skip in 20 minutes to the presentation above you will find Charles Jolley talking about SproutCore:
During this presentation I actually built and deployed a small application on stage but the most interesting thing, I think, is the part where I talk about how thick client frameworks like SproutCore change the way you build [...]
s3slider is a simple jQuery plugin that smoothly lets you fade through a set of images.
You include the script and then:
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// setup the images
<div id=”s3slider”>
<ul id=”s3sliderContent”>
<li class=”s3sliderImage”>
<img src=”#” />
<span>Your text comes here</span>
</li>
<li class=”s3sliderImage”>
[...]
I realise that we are an international community here at Ajaxian, but for the American Thanksgiving holiday, I thought it would be OK to take stock and say some thanks too.
Firstly, to the bright hackers who brought us not only XHR (thanks Microsoft), but porting it to other browsers, and then the hard work of [...]
Damian Wielgosik has created Drawter, a web based tool to layout pages:
Drawter is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website’s code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you [...]
Dion and I were just talking about NetBeans (Sun’s free Java IDE) with some colleagues the other day. To those in the Java community, just mentioning “NetBeans” can conjure up some of the worst memories of mounting file systems and purple-hued user interfaces.
But in reality, today’s NetBeans is a fantastic IDE with a modern-looking interface [...]
One of the best aspects of living in the Bay Area is bumping into all sorts of interesting computer folks. Today I’m working from a coffee shop and bumped into Tantek Çelik, CSS and Microformats man. He pointed me to a fabulous blog series introducing Microformats and all the major formats for a more lay-person [...]