Weekend Links – New HTML Elements, CSS3 Selector Test, Digg Architecture, Crashing IE6
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
CSS3 Selector Test
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 Architecture
Digg's known to assassinate the unsuspecting servers of dugg sites. How does Digg handle the load? Find out!
http://highscalability.com/digg-architecture
A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
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
The 7 Easiest Ways To Crash IE6
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
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For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
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There are lots and lots of useless but fun JavaScript techniques out there. This is another one of them.
One popular April Fools joke I quickly got tired of was websites transforming their text upside down. I found a jQuery Plugin by Paul...
