Console² replaces the JavaScript Console with what could be the next generation Error Console. As of Firefox 1.5, the JavaScript Console is used not only for JavaScript errors, but for CSS errors as well. This extension takes this into account by providing a simple possibility to display errors by type...

AutoAssist is an auto completion web widget that written in pure JavaScript. It can help enhance the accessibility of existing website, let the users to work effective and feel comfortable. Moreover, it just a pure JavaScript file that won’t break existing code or development style.

Excellent paper by Edd Dumbill on the future of HTML. Part 1 is about HTML 5, part 2 about XHTML 2.0. “In this two-part series, Edd Dumbill examines the various ways forward for HTML that Web authors, browser developers, and standards bodies propose. This series covers the incremental approach...

Howard Greenstein was one of the panelist at the NYSIA (New York Software Industry Association) conference and he has some interesting thoughts about Web 2.0 . Check also this discussion about Web 2.0 “ The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 “ by Ellyssa Kroski. Very deep and thorough!

Wow! This is some great news! Finally Microsoft has acknowledged the problem with the SELECT control and finally fix it in IE 7. How many hours I spent on this tricky bug. I used a lot of hacks to avoid the issue, but this is really the thing which I was waiting for. Now no reason not to migrate to IE...

iWeb is the latest addition to iLife 06 released by Apple a couple of days ago. iWeb let Mac users publishing a blog, photos, etc… easily by using some themes and templates. What I like in iWeb is the support of Ajax. Check the slideshow it’s really simple but works like a charm! As a web...

In a cross browser development, it’s really difficult to use non standards DOM methods. A good example is innerHTML Something I just discovered is that Firefox 1.5 is fully compatible with innerHTMl (even with XHTML), a move which make me very happy. It has always benn too easy for the Mozilla...

A lot of sites now are using CSS instead of tables to have a lighter markup. First you can find an interesting compilation of 3 columns CSS layout methods here . On different projects, however I am not satisfied by the fact that most of the CSS layouts are ‘liquid’ which means the columns...

I read online few chapters of the excellent book by Stuart Langridge DHTML Utopia published by SitePoint and just wow! It's a great refresh of everything you assume as right regarding websites construction. This is really a great start for Web 2.0 applications, Ajax techniques are also covered by the...

I was looking this morning for some solutions to build a tree navigation (client side). I found this Javascript API easy to implement and surely ready for an Ajax modification. dTree is a free JavaScript tree menu. There are a lot of tree generating scripts just like this one, and many of them are great...