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Location-based publishing and services
By Premasagar Rose · Thursday, April 17, 2008 1
The web has been used to record many pieces of data - not only documents, and information on people and event details, but the time things occured, names and addresses, reviews of those things, what relationship people have to each other, and more. More recently, one attribute has really come to the forefront - the location of things, or geocoded data as it is called. In this article, Premasagar takes you through the world of geo data, showing what options we have for recording geo data, what tools are at our disposal, what people are doing with it already, and what the future holds. Read more…
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Indexing and searching in Opera with Opera Quick Find History Search
By Pavel Studený · Thursday, April 10, 2008 6
In this article, Pavel Studený lifts the lid off Opera Quick Find History Search, an exciting new Opera feature that allows you to search the full text of previously-visited pages. Read more…
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Javascript badges powered by JSONP and microformats
By Gareth Rushgrove · Saturday, March 8, 2008 5
Getting tired of maintaining all your social data on several different sites? Can't we have more data portability? This stuff is in the works, but for now, we need intermediary solutions. In this article, Gareth Rushgrove shows how to build a simple script that shares Microformatted data across domains using JSONP, JavaScript, and Glenn Jones' ufXtract tool. Read more…
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How to do Photoshop-like effects in SVG
By Erik Dahlström · Friday, February 29, 2008 3
Wanna add some polish to your site, the standards way? In this article Erik shows how you can save time and money on creating graphics and effects programmatically using SVG instead of doing them all manually using Photoshop. Read more…
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XFN encoding, extraction, and visualizations
By Brian Suda · Thursday, February 21, 2008 374
The XFN microformat is a great way to mark up HTML to describe the relationships you have with people you know, but what can you actually do with that data once you and your friends have put it up on the web? Brian Suda explores this in depth in this article. Read more…
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CSS text shadows and background sizing
By Christopher Schmitt · Thursday, February 21, 2008 1
In this article Christopher Schmitt explores a couple of great new CSS design properties available in CSS3 - text-shadow for creating drop shadows, and background-size for automatically resizing background images as the browser window changes size. Exciting stuff indeed! Read more…
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Persisting widget data across platforms and devices using Opera's XML store
By Morten Haraldsen · Thursday, February 7, 2008 1
The Opera XML Store is great new way to persist widget data across platforms and devices. Want to learn more? Read on! Read more…
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Accessible Context-sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM Scripting
By Frank M. Palinkas · Thursday, February 7, 2008 2
This article demonstrates two methods of calling context-sensitive help in a web form, in an accessible manner, using unobtrusive DOM scripting. Read more…