Google goes Chrome
Most people have heard by now, that Google has released a beta version of their very own browser, which they have proudly dubbed: Chrome.
Similar to their web site, Google is using a minimalistic approach regarding the appearance of its UI. They claim that it makes the web "faster, safer, and easier". It uses a totally new JavaScript engine they named V8, and each tab operates as a separate system process to prevent any memory leaks or crash of the browser as a whole. Chrome uses components from Apple's Webkit and Mozilla Firefox.
Now, I must admit, for the past several years I have been loyal to Firefox, while flaming any and all versions of IE, but now, I don't know... after trying out this beta for just few minutes; I might have just found a new best friend!
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Comments (0) | Sep 03, 2008
Table-less and Div-less too!
Yes, this is seriously, no joke. A guy named P.J. Onori one day decided to think outside of the box, and came up with this wild idea to create a web site without using tables, and not using any divs either! 
"Thats crazy" you say? Well look here.
According to P.J. using the ul and dl elements interchangeably as the primary element for a page's structure is really not much less reliable than using a div. And in fact, for backwards compatibility, is even better. As regards forwards compatibility, it doesn't choke the W3C validator either.
Here's some of the method behind his madness, in his own words:
The reason why the DIV degrades nicely with older browsers is that older browsers do not know what it is and it is therefore omitted. Thus, the DIV, while causing no negative effects to the structure of a website, is providing no positive effects either. XHTML list elements provide a natural hierarchy for all layouts, with or without CSS.
Read more... | Comments (0) | Apr 10, 2008
SWFObject
SWFObject is the new (and probably best) way of inserting flash movies. Not only does it include a built-in mechanism to detect if the client has support for flash, but it is also the most efficient way to get around IE's Click to activate and use this control crap.
It was created by Geoff Stearns, and honestly, I think no one can explain what SWFObject is better than him. Here's a quote from his blog.
SWFObject is a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is also very search engine friendly, degrades gracefully, can be used in valid HTML and XHTML 1.0 documents*, and is forward compatible, so it should work for years to come.
Some of you may be wondering, "Why should I care? What does SWFObject have thats better than using the good old <object> and <embed> tags?"
Read more... | Comments (1) | Oct 15, 2007
