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
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Dean Edwards starts JavaScript tips with speeding up object detection.
By Jeremy Keith | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF
- Star HTML and Microsoft IE7
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A good list of DOM Scripting mistakes.
By Chris Kaminski | Filed in DOM, DOM Scripting TF
- Tool for tracking IE memory leaks
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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)
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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
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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
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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 ...
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Recent Buzz
Small Business Update
By Aaron Gustafson | August 5th, 2010
A while back I announced WaSP’s new small business outreach effort and, thanks to your help, we’ve been making great progress.
Back in February, I announced that one of WaSP’s new efforts was going to be in the direction of outreach to small businesses. Since that time, things have looked pretty quiet from the outside, but the Small Business Outreach Committee has actually been quite busy gathering materials and putting together our first document which aims to help small business owners evaluate the competencies of those seeking to do web work for them.
Thanks to the efforts of a handful of WaSP members and a cadre of other web professionals, we’re making great progress. We’ve just wrapped up the material organization phase and are beginning to work on drafting the document, which we hope to have out before the end of the year. We’re also in the process of putting together a website to house “living” versions of the materials we produce and assist with the promotion and distribution of this document and any others we generate in the future.
We’ll post further announcements on this project as we get closer to the launch date.
Filed in Education, Outreach, Small Business Outreach | Comments (0)