Chrome is Fast, But Not That Fast (7)
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Just how fast is Google’s Chrome browser? JavaScript performance-lover (and Mozilla employee) John Resig ran some tests that show Chrome may be fast, but other browsers aren’t that far behind. When Google released Chrome, it included benchmarks that show its browser zipping away from the competition at light speed. There’s no doubt Chrome is fast and we think it’s already changed the web. It seems, like with most statistics, it all depends whose benchmarks you ...
JQuery Redesign: “Be a JavaScript Rock Star” (7)
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JavaScript framework JQuery redesigned its project site, continuing its innovative ways. The home page jumps out with an illustration that is apparently contentious within the JQuery community. Like it or hate it, it’s definitely a bold departure from the previous version. Rey Bango, a JQuery evangelist, puts it this way: One of the things about the jQuery Project is that we’ve never run with the crowd or accepted the norm. By pushing boundaries and sometimes ...
Opera Taunts IE8 Over Standards (4)
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Hakon Lie’s rant against Internet Explore 8’s interoperability promise is making a big stink where Microsoft should instead be lauded. Lie, the Chief Technical Officer for rival browser Opera, complains that IE8 defaults to a previous rendering engine for intranet pages. Microsoft had previously promised to always support the highest standards. Lie goes on to invent statistics to show intranets make up half of the page view on PCs. While the method for determining his ...
Users Demand OpenID: Google, Twitter Among Top (4)
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OpenID enthusiasts have been spoken and they’re demanding OpenID support from Google, Twitter, and other popular websites. The Demand OpenID site was created by provider JanRain and has been active for several months. Will less than 500 people be enough to convince the internet giants to open up to OpenID? Probably not, but it’s a step. Here’s the top five sites where users would like to see OpenID: Google Twitter Facebook Wikipedia Flickr Some of ...
First Look at Chi.mp Alpha (2)
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Recently we wrote about how Chi.mp is evolving OpenID. The service, which is in a closed Alpha, gives out free .mp domain names, allows a very basic feed aggregator, and is an OpenID provider. We got a chance to check out the service and thought we’d share with you. Above shows an example of a Chi.mp profile page. This one is from Laurel Boylen, Chi.mp’s community manager. The aggregation of different web services led us ...
Firebug Flies Out of Beta (1)
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If you’ve been waiting for an official release to install the latest Firebug, wait no more. Version 1.2 of the popular web developer extension for Firefox is no longer in beta. You can download Firebug at the Firefox add-ons site. John Resig, one of the new Firebug team members, has a great rundown on what’s new. Resig is always on the lookout for performance issues and he brings up an important one with JavaScript debugging. ...
Readernaut Helps You Decide What to Read or Not (1)
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Readernaut is a new site for tracking what books you and your friends are reading. It’s a more beautiful LibraryThing with some super simple features. Like most social sites, Readernaut gets more useful with more people using it. It helps if those people are your friends, or if you at least “follow” some users on the site. Then you can view a Facebook-like timeline of your friends’ latest Readernaut updates. Social networks have long promised ...
Get Your Tabbed Design Right (1)
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Since the time Amazon made a tabbed interface popular, web designers have been talking about the design pattern. Are tabs good? Are they bad? How do you make them? Amazon has since removed tabs from their site, but it’s still a useful metaphor when done right. So what’s right and wrong? The Usability Post shares 5 tips for tabbed navigation: Connect the active tab to the content Make other tabs a different color Change the ...
Firefox Declares Best Firefox 3 Extensions (4)
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Mozilla Labs announced the winners in their contest for the best Firefox 3 add-ons. The Extend Firefox contest received over 100 entries. Tags and bookmarks ruled the winners. See if you can find one or two new extensions to try out. Best New Add-on Pencil is a user interface prototyping tool. Not your ordinary extension and it could be useful, too. Tagmarks is tagging in a click. Rather than use words to describe a bookmark, ...
Songbird Beta: Like iTunes, But it Goes to 11 (20)
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It looks like iTunes, but with less ads and tie-ins to the iTunes store. It plays like iTunes, but it enjoys support from Last.fm and other plug-ins. It manages your iPod like iTunes, but it supports more music file formats. It even has its own version of CoverFlow. It even runs on Linux. Sure, it's like iTunes, but this one goes to 11.
Yahoo iPhone Version Is Best Of Yahoo Search (1)
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Earlier this week Yahoo quietly released search for iPhone, a snazzy web app. It looks a lot like regular Yahoo search, and I mean that as a compliment. It’s fast, full-featured, and looks gorgeous. Developer Ryan Grove said his three person team were given this challenge to match the desktop experience: Bring the full Yahoo! Search experience—including SearchMonkey, Search Assist, shortcuts, and other awesome Yahoo! Search features—to the iPhone with as few compromises as possible. ...
Make Data Not Look Like Data (15)
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Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the post itself, in addition to some other metadata. All of this data sits in a row in the Webmonkey database, waiting for you to call it up. When we display a blog post, you see the content–usually something new or cool in web development. You don’t ...
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Ben said:
Nice picture. Now if only people were able to look at things from different perspectives. I'll talk to God about that. Maybe get her to work on humans 2.0.
Amazon Expands Elastic Computing With New Storage Service (4)
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Amazon Web Services has released a new storage service that, at first, may look a lot like their S3 offering. The new service, Elastic Block Storage (EBS), is meant to increase the usefulness of their EC2 computing cloud. In case you’re confused by all these services, here’s how Amazon describes their latest addition: EBS gives you persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage which you can attach to a running instance of EC2. You can format it ...
Songbird Beta: Like iTunes, But it Goes to 11 (1)
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It looks like iTunes, but with less ads and tie-ins to the iTunes store. It plays like iTunes, but it enjoys support from Last.fm and other plug-ins. It manages your iPod like iTunes, but it supports more music file formats. It even has its own version of CoverFlow. It even runs on Linux. Sure, it's like iTunes, but this one goes to 11.
Songbird Beta: Like iTunes, But it Goes to 11 (1)
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It looks like iTunes, but with less ads and tie-ins to the iTunes store. It plays like iTunes, but it enjoys support from Last.fm and other plug-ins. It manages your iPod like iTunes, but it supports more music file formats. It even has its own version of CoverFlow. It even runs on Linux. Sure, it's like iTunes, but this one goes to 11.
Yahoo Invites Bloggers to Buzz Up (1)
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Search giant Yahoo opens up its Buzz social news site to accept submissions from any publisher on the web. While story submissions for the Digg-like service were previously limited to 400 publishers, now anyone with a blog can put a Buzz widget on their website and have a shot at reaching the Yahoo homepage.
One in Three Advanced PC Buyers Dumps Vista (3)
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I don’t want to keep hating on Windows Vista, but it’s hard to stop. Despite Microsoft’s insistence that users love Vista, it’s hard to find much good said about the operating system. Now InfoWorld’s analysis of tracking data shows that, of those that install their performance tool, 35% switch away from Vista, most to Windows XP. The data comes from about 3,000 users of Windows Sentinel, a free program that monitors the user’s system and ...
Four Regular Expressions to Check Email Addresses (4)
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How do you find out if a user has entered a valid email address? Do you check for an at-sign, or is it more complicated? For many developers the answer is a regular expression, a little bit of code that can describe text patterns using wildcards and other special characters. If you’re new to the topic, we have a great regular expression tutorial. Here are four regular expressions (often called regexes) that all validate the ...
Setting The Tables With CSS (2)
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Every time I create an HTML table, I struggle with its styling. It’s not easy to make a table look good. “OMG! Webmonkey told me to design with tables!” No, I’m not talking about using tables for layout. Use tables how they were meant to be used: for data. When I wrote about Firefox browser stats yesterday, I struggled to make the data look nice. Too bad I hadn’t found this gallery of table designs. ...
No More Laptop Fooling For Traveling Monkeys (2)
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Sure, most of us are stuck at our cubes, offices, or living room couches creating websites all day. We know that some of our fellow webmonkeys have jobs that require travel, or at least have to fly to spend holidays with family. Of course, ‘monkey travelers always have a computer with them, right? In the U.S. we’re familiar with removing our laptops from their secure holsters and placing them in a plastic tray for a ...
