Monthly Archives: January 2006

IE7 Beta 2

Chris Wilson and team over at Microsoft have released a public beta of IE7. Go get it and start testing!

Google Web Authoring Stats

The motherlode. I’m still digesting. I’ll tell you one thing, though. It clearly illustrates the fact that the dark and dreary road is still littered with the past relics of tag soup and table based layout. We’ve barely scratched the surface.

Parent Selectors and Reverse Inheritance

Andy Budd asks for parent selectors in “What I Want From CSS3 – Part 2“. If you’re an exprienced CSS author, there is no doubt you have had a few “if only” moments when you’ve needed to affect a parent based on its children. You’re not alone. It looks like people have been asking for [...]

hResume

Inspired by the recent Microformats panel discussion at SDForum last week and by my long standing desire to create a structured resume using XHTML, I bit the bullet and spent the better part of Monday working on one. It turns out that Ryan King, Tantek Celik and others have been brainstorming on this very subject [...]

S5 Update from Eric Meyer

Eric Meyer has just released S5 1.2a1. For those that are unfamiliar with it, S5 stands for “A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show System”. Now with features like a permalink progress meter and compatibility fixes for both Opera and Konqueror, perhaps the greatest addition is the new notes window contributed by Shaun Inman. The notes window [...]

Performancing Plugin

I just downloaded and installed the Perfomancing plugin for Firefox. It allows posting directly from the browser to any number of blogging systems. So far, I’ve set it up for both Movable Type – http://steve.ganz.name/ and Blogger – http://norcalseries.com and it’s working great. I really like the interface and it seems like a better experience [...]

AHAH!

While catching up on my reading over at Microformats.org, I stumbled across AHAH. In a nutshell: it’s AJAX using static XHMTL fragments instead of having to process unformatted XML. Think of it as a dynamic client-side include system. Also known as JAH, this technique was being used long before the use of the combination of [...]

Web Developer 1.0

Now this is something to celebrate! Chris Pederick has released version 1.0 of Web Developer. Commonly referred to as the “Web Developer Toolbar”, it’s the favorite Firefox extension of Web professionals everywhere. It’s so good that even Microsoft copied it (poorly) for IE. I’ve been using it for well over a year now, and I [...]