We talked about how CSS variables are next a few months back, and now they are here!WebKit now has an experimental implementation of CSS variables: You can test this feature using a WebKit nightly Test cases Once again, via Dylan Schiemann.
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Tom Robinson has built a useful utility, JSON Diff, which gives you a graphical look at the difference. Changed portions are displayed in yellow. Additions are displayed in green. Deletions are displayed in red. The visualization is live itself, so you can move around the nodes using the triangles.
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ShiftZoom 1.0 is the latest tool from Christian Effenberger that allows you to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean. Requires no plugin/extension or any other external resource! It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, IE […]
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Gareth Heyes has written a JavaScript protocol fuzzer which has the goal of “producing every variation of javascript execution from links.” If you check out the demo you see all of the options available to fuzz:Number of characters - This inserts between 1 and 10 characters in the chosen position Character position - The string position of […]
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There is a thread going on secure cross domain requests. Microsoft came out with a paper saying that the W3C standard isn’t secure, and pushing the Microsoft XDR spec:A few proposals and implementations exist like XDomainRequest in IE8, JSONRequest and the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group’s Cross Site XMLHttpRequest (CS-XHR) draft specification, which combines an […]
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Dan Vanderkam has announced a new component dragtable:Over the past several years, Stuart Langridge’s sorttable Javascript library has found widespread use. It’s easy to see why. Just add class=sortable to a table tag and its column headers automatically support click to sort. Pretty slick. But sometimes sorting just isn’t enough. What if you want to focus […]
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Revin Guillen has posted about the Dojo dojo.data API and how you can layer access to Web services in a very elegant way. His example shows building access to Wikipedia (demo):Dojo recently received a new data store that demonstrates exactly what we want: dojox.data.WikipediaStore. It does just what it sounds like, turning Wikipedia into a simple […]
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Steve Souders has a wrap up on the Velocity conference that he co-chaired. He links to his favourite content from the show, which contains a lot of Ajax related work. It was really good to hear snippets form the show such as Eric Lawrence of Microsoft saying “we hope to make Steve’s book out of […]
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PLAIN TEXT CSS: #indirect-example1 h4 + p,#indirect-example2 h4 ~ p { background-color: #CCC; color: #F00;} Eric Wendelin has taken a look at the general sibling combinator shown above as: PLAIN TEXT CSS: h4 ~ p {} This would affect each <p> element that is a sibling of a preceding <h4> element. This is different from the Adjacent Sibling Combinator (+) in […]
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Opera is being very pro-active and have been hiring folk to give compliance feedback for sites that aren’t working well on Opera. Nik Cubrilovic covered this on the new TechCrunch IT blog:Opera Software is building a team of “web evangelists” whose job it is to find sites that do not display correctly in Opera and are […]
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