Weekend Links – jQuery 1.4, CSS Images, Printing Techniques, Converting to CSS, Cross-Browser Coding

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Not the most notable week in programming news, but why not share what's out there?

jQuery 1.4 Released: Faster, More Tests, Ready for 1.2

I don't use jQuery but I know that the community is strong and there are a lot of great scripts out there. WordPress uses jQuery.
http://jquery.com/blog/2007/08/24/jquery-114-faster-more-tests-ready-for-12/

Pup Inc's Arrow Over Lay Screenshot Browsers Explained

Pretty cool script using CSS to move backward and forward through pages. Definitely worth a peek.
http://www.pupinc.com/browser/

Printing the Web: Solutions and Techniques

Users don't read, they scan. Perfect outlook on print vs. screen. All web programmers and designers should read this article.
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/21/printing-the-web-solutions-and-techniques/

Why You Should Convert to CSS

Anyone who hasn't switched to CSS really should -- there's no advantage to not doing so. In case you haven't, this is a good read.
http://www.programimi.com/2007/08/18/why-you-should-convert-to-css/

Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers

Making sure you website works in multiple browsers is essential to any public website. How can you do so? Read this article to find out.
http://www.vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/effectively-testing-your-website-in-multiple-browsers/

Recent Features

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    Creating Scrolling Parallax Effects with CSS

    Introduction For quite a long time now websites with the so called "parallax" effect have been really popular. In case you have not heard of this effect, it basically includes different layers of images that are moving in different directions or with different speed. This leads to a...

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    fetch API

    One of the worst kept secrets about AJAX on the web is that the underlying API for it, XMLHttpRequest, wasn't really made for what we've been using it for.  We've done well to create elegant APIs around XHR but we know we can do better.  Our effort to...

Incredible Demos

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    Check All/None Checkboxes Using MooTools

    There's nothing worse than having to click every checkbox in a list. Why not allow users to click one item and every checkbox becomes checked? Here's how to do just that with MooTools 1.2. The XHTML Note the image with the ucuc ID -- that...

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    Event Delegation with MooTools

    Events play a huge role in JavaScript. I can't name one website I've created in the past two years that hasn't used JavaScript event handling on some level. Ask yourself: how often do I inject elements into the DOM and not add an...

Discussion

  1. Thanks for the link to my article Effectively Testing Your Website in Multiple Browsers.

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