Interesting Web Tech Related Articles

Some random collection of interesting articles related to web tech.

Browsers and CSS

• Quirks mode

HTML

• Google's Web Authoring Stat, ~2006-01: http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html

Web Tech Surveys, Stats, Articles:

• http://www.webdevout.net/ (by David Hammond. A large site on CSS conformance across browsers, and other articles. Heavily biased against Microsoft.)
• http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. “Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site” (2008-07) By Yahoo.

Javascript Libraries

Prototype.js, a library for ajax. (2008-05-13)

Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

(computing) Google releases OpenSocial: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/. A API for building social networking sites, so that all social networking sites can have one unified API.

Google Web Toolkit. You use Java to create a GUI app, then the kit will compile it into HTML and Javascript so it can be deployed on the web. Seems that Gmail and GoogleMap is written this way.

Database

• “The Move to Store Images In the Database”, By Marcel Kratochvil, Piction. (accessed 2005) http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/intermedia/htdocs/why_images_in_database.html

Interesting Wikipedia Articles

• Geo targeting
• Click fraud
• Google map
• JSON
• BBCode. Bulletin Board Code, the lightweight markup language used in online forums.

• Favicon
• Fragment identifier Page section jumper, the “#...” part of url.

Great Tools

• http://habilis.net/validator-sac/. A HTML validator program. Can be used to batch validate files.

DHTML References

DHTML References. Tutorials and References on HTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM.

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