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privacy-related changes coming to CSS :visited
For more information about this, have a look at David Baron's post, the bug and the post on the security blog. For many years the CSS :visited selector has been ...
Firefox 4 Beta 1 Released
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Google's VP8 video codec (and ffmpeg)
Now that the hype is over, let's talk the real deal. How good is Google's VP8 video codec? Since "multiple independent implementations help a standard mature quicker and become more useful to its users", me and others (David for the decoder core and PPC optimizations, Jason for x86 optimizations) decided that we…
HTML5 Rocks: A resource for open web developers
Because HTML5 and its related technologies cover so much ground, it can be a real challenge to get up to speed on them. That’s why today we'...
Bringing improved PDF support to Google Chrome
Millions of web users rely on PDF files every day to consume a wide variety of text and media content. To enable this, a number of plug-ins ...
WordPress 3.0 available
Arm your vuvuzelas: WordPress 3.0, the thirteenth major release of WordPress and the culmination of half a year of work by 218 contributors, is now available for download (or upgrade within your da…
Hacker News and pseudonymity
Mark Suster has a post about improving civility on YCombinator’s Hacker News: I’ve seen vitriolic responses on HN on several occasion. I mostly get hammered on HN if I writ…
Firefox 4: CSS3 calc()
This article describes the CSS3 calc() value. This feature hasn't landed yet in any Firefox tree but work to implement it is underway. Firefox will support the CSS calc() value, ...
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Rethinking Rails 3 Controllers and Routes - PeepCode Blog
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Smokescreen - a Flash player written in Javascript and HTML5
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Microsoft says: IE6 is like 9 year old milk
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How two magical words increased signups by 28%
Viadeo, a leading SaaS company, used Wingify Testing serivices to increase the CTR on the sign-up form placed on their home page by 28%.
Google Chrome for Linux goes stable
Since the initial beta release of Google Chrome for Linux last December , we've been hard at work adding the polish necessary to upgrade th...
Google's AdSense Revenue Share
Today, in the spirit of greater transparency with AdSense publishers, we’re sharing the revenue shares for our two main AdSense products — A...
IE9 will support VP8 and H.264 video
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Google Code Blog: Introducing the Google Font API & Google Font Directory
Today we are excited to announce a collection of high quality open source web fonts in the Google Font Directory , and the Google Font API ...