There are lots of sites out there dedicated to the new UI approach dubbed Ajax, most of which relay interesting news on the subject. Few, however, actually talk about what’s going on behind the scenes. You know, all that Javascript stuff: creating objects, DOM manipulation, XMLHTTPRequest, etc.

A buddy of mine, Jeff Watkins, who has probably been writing Javascript longer than you or I have known about it, has launched a new site that fills this void called Nerd.Newburyport. He’s got several posts up so far, and reading through them I’ve learned a lot.

And yes, that kick butt Search function is Ajax…

(via Shaun Inman): Dave Hyatt posts that the Safari web browser supports multiple background images as specified in the CSS3 spec.

That means that you can change your CSS to attach multiple background images to a single element, one of the most desired things imaginable in the world of CSS. Presumably, there will be a way to write CSS to achieve the effect in Safari, while not breaking rendering in browers that don’t support it yet.

Rounded box corners will be a breeze!

In The Dark Side of Technorati Tags, Om Malik reports that Technorati tags are being gamed too much for his liking. Most importantly, Om brings up the point that should be brought up: who’s getting what benefit? For those new to tagging, Technorati tags are simply words that writers include in their posts that point […]

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You know you have trouble when people start calling something a “buzzword” and a lot of folks have been calling “Web 2.0” a buzzword lately. I don’t think it is one, or rather I think that what it refers to is a real thing. If we end up calling it something else, that’s fine, but […]

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