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The floating head of Brendan Eich, originally uploaded by adactio.

2 days, 200 people, 9 talks and one discussion panel later I still have too many things going round in my head to be able to [...]

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DHTML color picker

There’s a host of library JavaScripts that provide a more application-like appearance to the web. The Dynamic Drive-YUI (Yahoo User Interface) Color Picker uses the UI Library and a means of dynamically picking hex values for web colours.
The scriptaculous library (using prototype) enables some pretty cool things too such as these box animations.
Meanwhile Dreamweaver CS3 [...]

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HTML5 spec

So the HTML 5 draft specification is underway and according to Ajaxian: HTML5 Media Support: video and audio tags and scriptability, some features for video and audio are already turning up in Webkit’s nightly build for OS X.
There’s other features suggested in the spec including datagrids and canvas. It makes interesting reading and as a [...]

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Validate email addresses

OK – it’s an old subject but given the standard for email addresses RFC 822 was established in 1982, it’s a persistent subject too.
There’s many ways to test for valid email addresses, I wanted a Perl one which ActiveState helpfully provided and this one is for PHP: Email Address Validation – PHP – ILoveJackDaniels.com
Not so [...]

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Browser tools

A beta of the new version of DebugBar is now available. It displays Source, Style, Comp.Style, Layout and Attrs from the DOM tree of pages displayed in IE. In Firefox there’s the rather useful Web Developer tools, but given a good proportion of our traffic is IE-based making something work in your favourite browser isn’t [...]

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