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The MIX 2008 conference is this week and Microsoft is showing off some of their latest tools. One of these is the much anticipated and discussed Internet Explorer 8 browser. It’s important to remember that this is still a beta 1 release and is much better than the IE7 beta 1. This one actually has [...]

I hate dealing with CSS-based layouts. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying I’d rather use tables. It’s just that I don’t relish the idea of fussing with the hacks, negative margins, floats, and more to get the page looking good in all browsers.
This problem was solved a few years ago by a series of [...]

I’ve been using a little CSS trickery to hide content and data from the average user. I hate to mention it too often as it can open pandora’s box. There was a recent thread on the Microformat’s discussion list about this very topic. The gist of many programmers is that data worth sharing is data [...]

I’m in Bangalore, India this week for a Yahoo! front-end engineering conference. It’s great to get out of the U.S. to visit with developers from other countries. Each of us bring a unique perspective, cultural background, appreciation of colors/design, icons, etc. At the beginning of the year, I predicted a new bunch of standardistas and [...]

Firefox allows us to customize the browser with small extensions. This flexibility has given each of us a batch of tools we can’t live without. The web developer toolbar, firebug, linky, adblock and stumbleupon are probably the most famous of these creatures.
SwitchProxy is a small extension that works very well. If you work behind firewalls [...]