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Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we…
We expect streams of text to scroll down in our browsers. But almost all of them scroll incorrectly.
One of the goals of Firefox have always been to make the lives of web developers as easy and productive as possible, by providing tools and a very extensible web ...
We sill start off by walking though the different parts of a GIF file. (The information on this page is primarily drawn from the W3C GIF89a specification .) A GIF file is made up of a bunch of different "blocks" of data. The following diagram shows all of the different types of blocks and where they belong in the…
Right now, Wikipedia is busy asking for donations to stay afloat. Here’s a thought. If it wants donations, maybe open things up so that outsiders feel like they can contribute expert knowledge without wasting their time.
Today I've been working with a piece of third-party software. I was having big problems getting it working and decided to delve into its ...
jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
I know it’s bad form to mention your competitors, but I’ve been asked about Readability’s announcement enough today that it’s more of a charade not to talk about it, especially since a lot of people are under the wrong impression.
Behind the simplicity of Google search is a complex set of algorithms that expands and improves the query you’ve typed to find the best resu...
Battlefield 3’s Battlelog system is an interesting web application that many of us missed. Here is why it’s amazing and worth a look at.
When I was in high school I didn’t own a computer. I used to read the occasional Popular Mechanics magazine and would linger for a while on the articles about the internet or HTML, fascinated by this new technology that I had barely even used. I don’t know why, but for some reason I’ve always been drawn toward…
Today is a big day for Mozilla and web video. Popcorn, Mozilla’s new HTML5 media toolkit, just launched version 1.0. Coinciding with the launch is
How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.
v.8.0, offered to release channel users on November 8th, 2011 Check out what’s new, the known issues and frequently asked questions about the latest released version of Firefox. As always, you’re encouraged to tell us what you think , or file a bug in Bugzilla .
