Got to keep up with the web. Here is a collection of pages I've bookmarked.
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Should you sell hosting?
I think this is a very important question for freelance web-designers/developers - good tips from Freelance Switch
JavaScript engine speeds
Comparisions between of the current browsers of their JavaScript speed using SunSpider from the WebKit team. No real surprises
IE8 renders ACID 2!
Rock on the IE dev team - much praise and kudos for this one
Firefox 3 does the Mac OSX
Good to see the Firefox developers realising that Firefox 2 on the Mac had a very poor interface, and fixing it in Firefox 3
Opera v Microsoft - the debate continues
Andy Budd presents the case in a well balanced manner
The perfect device
So easy to say - so damn near impossible to do
MooTools dev has a go at jQuery
jQuery steals code? Ternary operators are bad (wtf)? My opinion of MooTools just dropped to zero - very poor presentation
Opera throws the legal dice at Microsoft
Force MS to unbundle IE from Windows and/or ship with other browsers by default - you might as well fight big. One thing though, how do we measure the requirement to "support web-standards" given that not one single browser supprts "standards" 100%?
Questions about AJAX
No answers - just questions. "How do we fix the web" from Douglas Crockford gets my vote
Internationalisation in JavaScript
Internationalisation is never particularly easy (although this looks like a nice method). Throw pluralisation in as well and you have a real mess
Table typesetting
Great article from Mark Boulton at 24 ways
Background checking your clients
It is a two way process, not only must they trust you - but you need to trust them
One web
Great article from Opera about why web standards are needed and why we should all follow them (including the browser makers)
Multi-point white board on the cheap
Fantastic work by Johnny Chung Lee on using the Wiimote to simulte a white board
http://site.name/index.php/more - you what?
URLs are typically bad - but this is shocking. Please make your URLs sensible
Flippin Firefox updater
John Resig talks about the chages to the Firefox updater. Thank goodness
OGG out of HTML5 (for the moment)
Not sure about this one. On one hand OGG seems quite good and open - on the other, nobody uses it so it is no big deal
SVG speed in Mozilla
Good to see the Mozilla people looking at this since the current implementation is super slow at rendering. SVG in Firefox 3 pre-beta is nice and snappy
Killing bad layout conventions
Another excellent article from Andy Rutledge showing how poor three column design can be on the web (and more)
Adobe Thermo
Thermo looks like a great application for designers (and for making front-end developers redundant...)
Here comes another bubble
Funny parody song of the web world
Molly askes Bill the big questions about IE8
With Microsoft being Mum on the subject at the moment there is quite the storm brewing (also in the comments, I do love how people keep asking for full css3 support in IE8... sigh...)
Yahoo Juku
Yahoo are going to train up teams of elite front end developers. Sounds interesting. Sounds very interesting...
What software do you use?
Always interesting to see what people who are highly respected are using
Ze Frank on feeling uninspired
Waiting to be inspired? Might be waiting a very long time...
It will be named IE8
The MSIE team takes the Micheal... What have you got if you cannot laugh at yourself - nice one guys
The future of reading
Someone needs to step up to the plate and get the UI for the digital generation of readers in hand (any time you are ready...)
YUI goes 2.4 - loads of new features
Quite a big expansion of the YUI libraries this,. YUI offers a very good, all encompassing set of tools
Usability challenges of web-applications
The design and development of a web-application is really quite unique in software. And a fantastic challenge!
IE7 at 1 year
The IE blog is always an interesting place: 1. It shows why blog comments can be a bad idea and 2. It shows that a shockingly large number of "web-designers" are in primary school...
Webkit is opening up
Already open source, but webkit is opening the doors to everyone now - great to see
HTML 5 preview
while HTML5 looks interesting, I am quite unconvinced about the direction it is taking with header, nav, article etc tags
Javascript array remove
This is a nice, slick and clean way of implementing Array.remove
Outstanding use of URIs
This is how URIs should be used! Meaningful and succinct - beautiful
Douglas Crockford on fixing HTML
A trimmed down HTML, but not really going to solve the wider problem