Archive for August, 2006



Chris Wilson, the main guy behind IE7 (and older versions) discussed several new features of Internet Explorer 7 at the @media conference in London. One feature in particular that stood out for me was the OpenSearch protocol. Adding this to your site can be easy, it can also be a headache. [...]

The IE7 team has announced “great fixes to our (JavaScript) engine to improve the garbage collection routine and to reduce unbounded memory growth.” They have also found many sites using less than optimal scripting patterns and have some great advice on fine-tuning your JavaScript. The following tips could increase your site download speeds from [...]

Captcha 2.0

Kent Brewster has come up with a novel solution for the inaccessible image-based captchas. Captchas are those images of obscured text to keep robots from spamming web sites. They’re a royal pain for those with visual disabilities.
Kent has solved this with a Web 2.0/social bookmarking bent. His RSS CAPTCHA Prototype asks you to [...]

The IE7 blog has a new post of items that have been fixed in the upcoming release of IE7. While not on the list, the problem I found with alpha transparent png sprites has been fixed for the final release.

Take a look at the list and think of it as new tools to use. [...]

One of the @media seminars this year prompted me to ask a question to the Europeans about forcing text-wrapping on really long words. We’ve been having a problem on Yahoo! Tech with people pasting urls into their comments, questions, and reviews. These long urls want to extend past the containers and we have had to [...]




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