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Dori Smith is coauthor of Mac OS X Unwired, JavaScript for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, 4th Edition, author of Java 2 for the WWW: Visual QuickStart Guide, and a contributor to numerous online and print computer industry magazines.

Christopher Schmitt has been working with the Web since 1993. He is the author of several books on web design and digital imaging, including O'Reilly's CSS Cookbook, as well as a contributor to many web development magazines.

Bill Scott is director of UI Engineering at Netflix in Los Gatos, CA, where he plies his interface engineering and design skills. Scott is the former Yahoo! Ajax evangelist and pattern curator for the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. He has a long and glamorous history in the IT world, due mostly to…

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Who Decides?

In my last blog post, I discussed a CSS trick I recently discovered. That post spawned a lot of comments, and at one point in the discussion I stated that I felt that just because a technique is popular and has been put forward by one or more resources as best practice, that it doesn't necessarily make that technique better practice than a new practice I (or any developer really) might come up with. The question was asked, "where do best practices come from?" ...I think any developer, consumer, or citizen has the right to put in the research time to study what current practices are and the reasons for them and put forward alternatives that can be considered for adoption as best practices.

Stupid CSS Trick

I've always has a Platonic relationship with CSS. You know, the kind where you see the shadows on the wall and you try to infer what is casting it. Lately, I've been forced to use CSS more and more, and...

Visual Studio 2008: Rich IntelliSense for jQuery

Last week, Microsoft released Rich IntelliSense for jQuery for Visual Studio 2008. This will also work for Visual Web Developer 2008 Express. This comes a month after the anouncement that jQuery will be shipping with future releases of VS 2008, making jQuery the official JavaScript framework for developing .NET AJAX applications.

Flex Gets Advanced CSS

I'm surprised this hasn't already made it to insideria.com yet... last week, Adobe published an updated design spec for CSS in the Flex framework.

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