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A mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo’s authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner.
- MozLab - Trac dev.hyperstruct.net
A suite of tools and libraries that help make your life easier and your time more productive as a developer of AJAX and Mozilla applications.
- Vancouver Law Librarian Blog: Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com
- No more Transitional DOCTYPEs, please | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict
- evil.che.lu - No more IE6 background flicker evil.che.lu
Fixing "the background flicker that happens when you hover a link that has an image as its backgound"
Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.
- UK's top web retailers failing the disabled | The Register theregister.co.uk
Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.
A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.
- Greenpeace vs. Apple greenpeace.org
Why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned?
- CSS Shorthand Guide dustindiaz.com
Over the years, I’ve found quite some interesting unknown quirky facts about these shorthands…
- Greenlight Wireless :: Skweezer greenlightwireless.net
reformats and compresses Web pages for optimal use on nearly any type of handheld device on the market.
- OpenAjax Alliance openajax.org
The OpenAjax Alliance is an organization of leading vendors, open source projects, and companies using Ajax that are dedicated to the successful adoption of open and interoperable Ajax-based Web technologies.
OpenID is an open, decentralized, free framework for user-centric digital identity.
- Dynamic-CD : The web server on CD phdcc.com
"Give out your web site - on CD, DVD, USB stick or laptop." Hmmm.
- A List Apart: Articles: Text-Resize Detection alistapart.com
We’ll give you a way to detect your visitors’ initial font size setting—and a way to find out whenever your visitor increases or decreases the font size.
- Easy CSS hacks for IE7 - Nano See, Nano Do nanobox.chipx86.com
A few new CSS hacks that work in Internet Explorer 7
- How to add Unicode chars with CSS 'content' property? archivist.incutio.com
The problem is that your server is not specifying a character set for the style sheet, so the browser has to guess. There is no canonical way to guess.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
You may not be aware, unless you’ve read the actual DOCTYPE documents themselves (and frankly, who wants to do that?) that the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE tells you to avoid using the HTML 4.01 Transitional DOCTYPE if you can.
- texturbation » Blog Archive » Privacy Policies Should Have RSS Feeds texturbation.com
"If there were RSS feeds, users could read a privacy policy when they first started using a service, then subscribe to the RSS feed using whatever feed service they use. They wouldn’t have to regularly check the web site for updates, and they wouldn’t
- Tracking your buzz applestooranges.com
What’s the best tools out there for keeping track of your online buzz?
- CSS Frames v2, full-height | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
The layout I describe here will have a fixed header at the top of the page, a scrolling content area in the middle, and a fixed footer at the bottom of the page.
- Flash of Unstyled Content (FOUC) explained | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Safari also suffers from [FOUC]
- Microsoft Design | ClearType microsoft.com
Seven new fonts that will be part of the new Windows O/S, codenamed Longhorn.
- On fonts for the Web | clagnut/blog clagnut.com
Quick fonts on t'web roundup.
Using jQuery’s plugin architecture, a number of smart people have taken the built-in effects one step further, creating some very pleasing modules for image enhancement.
- Juicy Studio: Using the title Attribute juicystudio.com
Current user agents provide very poor access to title text information, and what access they do provide is typically inaccessible for people with disabilities.
- rikrikrik - Interview: John Resig of jQuery rikrikrik.com
- MySource Matrix Open Source CMS - Home matrix.squiz.net
"Open Source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP". YACMS.
- evhead: Pageviews are Obsolete evhead.com
In summary, there's no easy solution. There's a big opportunity (though very tough job) for someone to come up with a meaningful metric that weighs a bunch of factors.
- Typefaces no one gets fired for using ~ Authentic Boredom cameronmoll.com
Make a list. Tested typefaces that are rock-solid reliable for print, web, or both.
- Design by Fire designbyfire.com
- Digital Web Magazine - The Big Picture on Microformats digital-web.com
How are microformats faring a year or so after their coming-out party?
- A List Apart: Articles: Elastic Design alistapart.com
You may want your website to display in a specific way, but your users may want it another way. Enforcing anything on a user is bad for usability and therefore detrimental to the success of the website.
In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.
- What is “Using WordPress as CMS”? | blogHelper bloghelper.is-there.net
Generally, it means to use WordPress as a more conventional CMS, for less blog-ish content and presentation style. We’re looking at portfolio sites, news and magazine sites, article libraries, gallery sites, photologs, e-commerce sites, and many more.
- Accessible interdependent dropdowns onlinetools.org