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*HTML/CSS CSS Voodoo - The dark art of CSS Hacks
Submitted by matt 45 days ago (more from blog.ginader.de)Since I joined Yahoo! I stopped using Conditional Comments for Performance Reasons (less HTTP Requests). So I needed to get familiar again with the common Hacks for Internet Explorer I had completely forgotten about. Over time I hardly ever ran into situations when other Browsers misbehaved - but it did happen. Here's the current State of my CSS Hack Collection.
*HTML/CSS Bulletproof CSS3 media queries
Submitted by matt 47 days ago (more from vcarrer.com)CSS3 Media Queries are cheap and easy way to optimize your web site for various devices. With this solution you can safely cover 99% of PC browsers and the modern mobile browsers (iPhone, iPad, Android, new webkit BlackBerry and the new Opera Browsers).
*Tech News Microsoft says 74 percent of work PCs still use Windows XP
Submitted by matt 56 days ago (more from engadget.com)The latest Microsoft operating system may be selling seven copies a second, but it's no match for the behemoth Windows XP, still the most popular OS in the world.In fact, a Microsoft exec admitted today that practically three-quarters of business computers still run the nine-year-old OS on hardware averaging 4.4 years old.
*Programming Pixastic - JavaScript Image Processing Library
Submitted by matt 104 days ago (more from pixastic.com)An experimental library which allows you to perform a variety of operations on images using just a bit of JavaScript. The effects supported out of the box include desaturation/greyscale, invert, flipping, brightness/contrast adjustment, hue/saturation, emboss, blur, and many more. Pixastic works by utilizing the HTML5 Canvas element which provides access to raw pixel data.
*HTML/CSS HTML5 Web Sockets: A Quantum Leap in Scalability for the Web
Submitted by matt 180 days ago (more from java.sys-con.com)HTML5 Web Sockets represent the next evolution of web communications - a full-duplex, bidirectional communications channel that operates through a single socket over the Web. HTML5 Web Sockets provides a true standard that you can use to build scalable, real-time web applications.
*Tech News After Google hack, Microsoft asks users to abandon IE6, XP
Submitted by matt 232 days ago (more from arstechnica.com)Microsoft is using a widely publicized flaw in Internet Explorer as a way to push users to upgrade both their browsers and operating systems.
*Programming Blackbird - Open Source JavaScript Logging Utility
Submitted by matt 243 days ago (more from gscottolson.com)Blackbird offers a dead-simple way to log messages in JavaScript and an attractive console to view and filter them. You might never use alert() again. Blackbird is has been smoke-tested on the following browsers: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Opera 9.5
*Tech News Move over Chrome, Opera now has the fastest JS engine
Submitted by matt 259 days ago (more from geektechnica.com)Most of us know that Opera has been at the forefront of Browser innovation for the longest time, yet remains at the bottom of pile when it comes to desktop browser market share. Its a sad story and even the best of us have a hard time figuring out why this is so. But this doesn’t stop Opera from making major innovations and changes with each new release.
*Programming Top 20+ MySQL Best Practices
Submitted by matt 286 days ago (more from net.tutsplus.com)Database operations often tend to be the main bottleneck for most web applications today. It's not only the DBA's (database administrators) that have to worry about these performance issues. We as programmers need to do our part by structuring tables properly, writing optimized queries and better code. Here are some MySQL optimization techniques for programmers.
*Tech News Opera Unite now available in Opera 10.10
Submitted by matt 288 days ago (more from opera.com)Opera today released Opera 10.10 with Opera Unite, a powerful technology for personal content sharing directly between all your devices. By wrapping both a Web browser and a Web server into one package, Opera Unite challenges the conventional, semi-private methods of sharing the content that really matters to people everywhere.