Today’s Client-Side Resources
YSlow for Firebug
“YSlow for Firebug” introduces another great tool from the Firebug/Yahoo team. “YSlow analyzes any web page and generates a grade for each rule and an overall grade. If a page can be improved, YSlow lists the specific changes to be made.”
Jeff Atwood’s “YSlow: Yahoo’s Problems Are Not Your Problems” reminds us that YSlow’s suggestions may only be action items for the elites with the resources to implement them. However, YSlow is also a way to educate the public about just how frickin awesome Yahoo! daily operations technology is. Yahoo is the only “big” company that still has a healthy respect for HTML, CSS and JavaScript. All the other big players deal with HTML, CSS and JavaScript—and they can’t wait to establish private property on the Web outside of this open sandbox.
Conflicting Absolute Positions
Rob Swan: “Assigning “conflicting” absolute positions I had assumed that if you assigned top, left, bottom, and right properties that most browsers would simply ignore two of those properties.”
Extending OpenOffice.org With NetBeans IDE
New Flash Demo on Roumen’s Web Log.
Docx into WPF FlowDocument
Docx into WPF FlowDocument from the Netherlands:XpsDocument doc = new XpsDocument("MyDoc.xps", FileAccess.Read); docViewer1.Document = doc.GetFixedDocumentSequence();
Enhanced XSPF Player with Autoresume Support
This approach must be examined as a way to present audio on the Web.
Microsoft SDK for Open XML Formats
“This topic is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.”
Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools
“The Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools are a set of tools to help administrators streamline management tasks such as troubleshooting operating system issues, managing Active Directory®, configuring networking and security features, and automating application deployment.”
Beyond Compare—The file compare, folder compare and remote directory compare utility from Scooter Software
“Beyond Compare®, the advanced file and folder comparison utility for Windows.”
“YUI Rich Text Editor for blog comments”
Niall Kennedy: “This blog’s comments are now enhanced with the YUI Rich Text Editor. I'm already familiar with the YUI JavaScript library, so when this new feature was included last week’s 2.3 release I decided to try out a progressive commenting enhancement.”
“Is My Application on Top?”
For the dreaded Windows Forms: “This is an useful function to estimate whether the form is on the top of all visible windows in Z-order.”
Introduction to HTML Applications (HTAs)
Vintage technology still documented by Microsoft (with questionable security): “The power to build HTML Applications (HTAs) brings Microsoft Internet Explorer to the fore as a viable Microsoft Windows development platform. HTAs are full-fledged applications. These applications are trusted and display only the menus, icons, toolbars, and title information that the Web developer creates. In short, HTAs pack all the power of Internet Explorer—its object model, performance, rendering power and protocol support—without enforcing the strict security model and user interface of the browser.”
Silverlight Chess
Play chess. You like to. So do it: “Silverlight Chess in Mono” and “Silverlight Chess.”