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There is an interesting article about new features in CSS on Goowik Design site. Here's short excerpt from this article:

CSS3 is still under development, if you want to follow the progress report, click here. Yes, as you can see it’s still not finished after all those years. The first public introduction was in 2006 is I’m not mistaken.

Well more browsers manufacturers have already started supporting most of the features of CSS3 with Opera and Safari in the lead. Firefox 3.1 will come out soon and promises to get along the others, while IE stays in the back.

Source: Goowik Design.

Janko Jovanovic post an article in which he show how to make image buttons a part if input fields. He writes:

If you ever saw how products like Microsoft CRM look like you probably noticed there are input fields that have "embedded" image buttons inside them. If your clients saw that, there is a probability that they will want to have it in their applications.

Source: DZone.

CSS sprites is one of the most useful CSS techniques. You can read the new tutorial aboout it posted on the Lightpost Creative site. Here's small excerpt from it:

One of the good things about CSS is that there are always different ways to complete a certain task. Wether it be getting your background to display correctly with a pattern or getting nice rollovers on your buttons. We will talk about the latter today, or whatever day you read this counts too. We are going to follow this step by step tutorial (which hopefully makes sense to more than just me) to recreate the list of social media buttons in the footer of our site.

Source:Lightpost Creative.

Alexander Skakunov has created Rival Alert Project.

Rival Alert is a data scraper that helps you to keep an eye on your competitors' public statistics. This can be the forum registrations count, page visits, stock value or number of search results — any kind of numeric public data.

Also Rival Alert can parse FeedBurner counters

Source: Rival Alert.

Blueeprint 0.8 is out. Here's small excerpt from release announce:

I'm not going to give a feature-by-feature breakdown of what makes 0.8 different from 0.7.1, but suffice it to say that 0.8 represents my vision of Blueprint being just as flexible and intuitive to use as it is easy. I'm focusing on the novice designer that will work with the framework "out of the box," and I'm doing my best to make sure that they have as many tools at their disposable as possible while also preventing them from running into unexpected problems that don't make sense. Case in point: I changed the rule for "p img" to "p img.left," you can view my reasoning in the related discussion thread. On the plugins, I've brought back some plugins like RTL, Buttons, and Link Icons, and since this release I've also released a new plugin that I developed on my own called Tabs.

Source:Christian Montoya blog.

Rick Strahl tells in his blog about jQuery intellisense in Visual Studio. He writes:

In case you missed it: Microsoft released the second part of their support tools for jQuery in Visual Studio this week. The second part comes in the form of a hotfix for Visual Studio 2008 SP1 that provides built-in support for –vsdoc.js files to – when present – automatically provide Intellisense support in Javascript documents. In combination with the recently released jQuery Intellisense file that Microsoft released you can now very easily get jQuery Intellisense in Visual Studio.

Source: Rick Strahl's Weblog.

John Resig post an article about two new feaatures in WebKit CSS animation and CSS transition. Here's small excerpt from this article:

Apple, and the WebKit team, have recently proposed two different additions to CSS: CSS Transitions and CSS Animations.

The two specifications are confusingly named - and it's hard to tell what the difference is between them at first glance. However, to put it simply: CSS Transitions are easy to use, while CSS Animations are made for programmers.

Asbin Baloo post an article in which he gives several advices about optimizing web pages. Here's small excerpt from this article:

Yahoo's Exceptional Performance team has compiled a list of 34 best practices to have faster web pages. In this post I'll show you 8 tips which helped me to get a B grade in YSlow! for web pages that I develop.

Source: HTML blog.

Rob Glazebrook post an article about creating zebra stripes tables with CSS. Here's short excerpt from this article:

I recently spent a bit of time on the OneHundredPushups website, and the aspect of the site that most caught my eye (aside from ninja-girl on the front page) was the zebra-striped tables strewn throughout. (For those not in the know, zebra striping tables refers to alternating colored backgrounds on table rows, a la iTunes.) Studies have shown that there is (or at least can be) a slight performance increase associated with zebra striped tables (or at least there isn’t a decrease), and that most users prefer zebra striping to traditional lined tables.

Source: CSSNewbies.com.

Ignacio Ricci post an article about CSS sprites. He writes:

Let's start with the basics. What are CSS sprites? CSS sprites are a way to combine images to improve our page loading time, reducing the number of requests our server does. In this article I will teach you how to make them.

Source: CSS Globe.

The authors of CSS karma site post a new article about clickable labels. Here's a short excerpt from this article:

In form design, there are many things you can do to improve usability, many of which have to do with label placement. I won’t go into the depths of it, but Chris from CSS-Tricks.com wrote a good article about placement, not too long ago.

Source: CSSKarma.com.

Nikhil  Kothari post an article about  Silverlight controls with effects an transitions. He writes

Earlier this week, the much anticipated Silverlight 2 was finally released! Personally speaking, it's a day that's been coming for a while - ever since my days prototyping the Core CLR engine running in the browser some two+ years ago now... and already, we're busy building the next layer of frameworks beyond the foundation provided by the CLR and the graphics/media engine and basic controls. Wow!

I'm working on one such effort of building an application framework on top of Silverlight these days at work, which as usual for any v1 product takes time. Over the past few weeks, I've also been working on updating Silverlight.FX to work against the final SL2 build, as well as adding a bunch of new goodies into the framework.

Source: Nikhil Kothari's Weblog.

Smashing Magazine post a new collection of links on various AJAX tutorials. Here's the excerpt from preface article:

AJAX provides Web developers with plenty of opportunities to enhance the user experience and improve the performance of their websites. There are countless ways that AJAX can be used, and fortunately there are plenty of good and useful AJAX tutorials out there to help you with your own implementation.

Source: Smashing Magazine.

DHTMLX 2.0 was released. Here's the main changes in this release:

• Several new components like dhtmlxLayout and dhtmlxAccordion.
• Better mutual integration of the components.
• Performance improvements
• Important bug fixes

Source: AJAX Magazine.