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full alpha transparent pngs

A List Apart has impressed me once again. A couple of months ago, they showed how to embed flash movies with xhtml compatible markup which I was able to extend to SVG files. Now, they show how to trick IE for Window into displaying pngs with full alpha transparency.

w3c dom conformance test

Simple DOM Test Page that shows what you current browser claims to support. A lead-in to the W3C DOM Test Suite.

svg mobile blackjack game

SVG mobile blackjack game. Impressive for 30k, and for something that will work on svg-enabled mobile devices.

changes in xhtml 2.0 drafts

xmlhack has a short article tracking changes in xhtml 2.0 working drafts.

apple shuns svg

Keynote, Apple’s new presentation program, uses xml, but not svg, for its vector graphics description markup.

logitech iopen

For Christmas, I received the wonderful Logitech ioPen, a digital pen. The pen works with a specialized notebook and a Palm-like syncing cradle to transfer everything you write to digital format. I’ve been making great use of it for drawing out schematics for web sites. In the past, I would have to scan the pages […]

Peter-Paul has released a new version of his w3c dom css compatibility table.

When using document.createElement(“script”) to add a javascript file to an html document, Internet Explorer does not provide consistent error messages. Instead, I have found a combination of failing silently and giving error messages for the line number that was used to append the script to the document.

netwindows api

NetWindows, an open source api project started by Alex Russell, is much improved. I took a second look at it recently and am very impressed with how well it handles a number of application like interfaces. It uses a signals and slots event mechanism, and despite there not being much in the way of updated […]

new architect magazine is no more

New Architect magazine is no longer being published. Under its original title of Web Techniques, it was a useful magazine for beginning web developers with code samples. The more recent rendition was more appropriate for business types (no code) making broad decisions related to web technologies. Except for the Lawrence Lessig articles related to the […]

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