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Buzz Archives for December 2005

JavaScript Animation for Beginners

A beginner-level tutorial on JavaScript animation from Emrah Baskaya.

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF

JavaScript Tips From Dean Edwards

Dean Edwards starts JavaScript tips with speeding up object detection.

By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF

Star HTML and Microsoft IE7

Chris Wilson, Group Program Manager for IE Platform and Security at Microsoft, and Position is Everything's Big John Gallant have been having a conversation about * html in Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 7 for Windows (IE7). Wilson has been encouraging CSS designers and developers to repair any bug-specific hacks ...

By Molly E. Holzschlag | Filed in Browsers, Bugs, CSS, DOM, HTML/XHTML, Microsoft, W3C/Standards Documentation, Web Standards (general)

A Final End to IE/Mac

Microsoft has announced that they will cease all support for IE/Mac as of December 31, 2005 and will cease all distribution of the software on January 31, 2006. While IE/Mac has become something of a red-headed stepchild in the past couple years, it has a proud history of standards-related achievements, most ...

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Browsers

Developer Resources

Yahoo have just added a JavaScript center to their Developer Network.

By Jeremy Keith | Filed in Authoring Tools, DOM, DOM Scripting TF

The Bad Old Days Linger On

Most professional web developers understand why browser sniffing sucks, and have long since moved on to more robust techniques like object or property testing to make their sites degrade gracefully in less-capable user agents. But apparently Yahoo! Music didn't get the memo: their site still sniffs browsers, urging Firefox users ...

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Browsers

Prince 5.1 Passes Acid2

Prince, a program that converts XML documents styled with CSS into PDF files for printing, has passed the Acid2 test. While Prince isn't a browser per se — it's a file converter — it does join Konqueror and Apple's Safari as the first CSS & HTML implementations to pass the ...

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Acid2, CSS

AJAX Mistakes

A good list of DOM Scripting mistakes.

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF

Tool for tracking IE memory leaks

Drip, the IE leak detector.

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Authoring Tools, Bugs, DOM Scripting TF

When to use DOM Scripting (and When Not To)

Alex Bosworth has a thoughtful piece on what sorts of apps require DOM Scripting for optimal user experience, and what sorts of apps are better without.

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF

Microsoft Tweaks IE’s Handling of ActiveX, Java

Microsoft has announced that they'll be changing the way IE handles ActiveX controls and Java applets to avoid liability in the Eolas patent suit. The suit, you'll recall, is about a patent held by the University of California and licenced to a company called Eolas. The patent ostensibly covers embedding multimedia ...

By Chris Kaminski | Filed in Browsers

24 Ways to Impress Your Friends

It's an online advent calender, and behind each door* you'll find a web development tip/tutorial (all standards-based goodness, of course) to impress your friends with - 24 of them, to be precise. I'd prefer that to a piece of chocolate any day. 24 ways to impress your friends kicks off ...

By Ian Lloyd | Filed in General

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Recent Buzz

Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum

By Aarron Walter | March 17th, 2010

Today, six more essential courses join the WaSP InterACT curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web.

It was just one year ago that The WaSP released its open curriculum project InterACT designed to help educators roll web standards and industry best practices into their courses. InterACT debuted at SxSWi 2009 with eleven courses created by a host of veteran educators and industry pros. Today, six more essential courses (that’s seventeen courses in total now if you’re counting) join our living curriculum to help schools prepare their students for a career working on the Web. Continue reading Six New Courses Added to the InterACT Curriculum

Filed in Curriculum, Education, Education TF | Comments (0)

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