Weekend Links – New HTML Elements, CSS3 Selector Test, Digg Architecture, Crashing IE6

By David Walsh on August 12, 2007

HTML Added Elements

Just as I called for new HTML Elements, more functional HTML elements, this great article came along. I don't know how much they'll help, but it's definitely a step forward.
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-html5/?ca=dgr-lnxw01NewHTML

Does your current browser support CSS3 selectors? Use this tester to challenge your browser to a CSS3 dual.
http://www.css3.info/selectors-test/

Digg's known to assassinate the unsuspecting servers of dugg sites. How does Digg handle the load? Find out!
http://highscalability.com/digg-architecture

When you're hiring a programmer, you get what you pay for -- don't find out the hard way!
http://blog.revsys.com/2007/08/a-guide-to-hiri.html

Love to taunt Internet Explorer 6? Blow up IE6 using simple HTML code.
http://seo2.0.onreact.com/top-7-ways-to-crash-internet-explorer

By David WalshNovember 8, 2012
5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed
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By David WalshJuly 30, 2013
9 More Mind-Blowing WebGL Demos
With Firefox OS, asm.js, and the push for browser performance improvements, canvas and WebGL technologies are opening a world of possibilities. I featured 9 Mind-Blowing Canvas Demos and then took it up a level with 9 Mind-Blowing WebGL Demos, but I want to outdo...

By David WalshMarch 7, 2008
CSS Fixed Position Background Image
Backgrounds have become an integral part of creating a web 2.0-esque website since gradients have become all the rage. If you think gradient backgrounds are too cliche, maybe a fixed position background would work for you? It does provide a neat inherent effect by...
By David WalshJanuary 30, 2012
Image Data URIs with PHP
If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves...