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Search terms are replacing URLs as the suggested way to find out more about a product in Japanese advertising. (Requires that the site get indexed before … gulfstream/2418

Google reader Easter Egg! (My Google Reader shared items.) gulfstream/2449

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Astute essay on the state of web apps, and what might happen next, with comparisons to the place ofLotus 1-2-3 3.0 and Windows in computing history.The … gulfstream/2332

 google.com, as if it were optimised for Google. gulfstream/2341

Nice post outlining some of the UI changes being suggested for Firefox 3, together with a good overview of browser UI challenges and issues in general. gulfstream/2351

Random stupid comment, from a corpus of comments collected by the StupidFilter project, who are attempting (good luck!) to write some software that will … gulfstream/2360

Good, uh, “appreciation” of Facebook from Ben Brown: “Facebook’s crack engineering staff will continually release new applications and features … gulfstream/2372

Surfing the modern web with Netscape 0.9b. (Not much of it works, though mostly because it doesn’t talk HTTP 1.1, or understand content type.) gulfstream/2373

Piece on typical mistakes made in the sign-up process. Mostly common-sense points—Mistake #8: Not Telling Users How You’ll Use Their Information—though … gulfstream/2374

Google mail removing instances of “gmail” from site for UK users; from October 19th, all new accounts will be @googlemail.com. And: “What … gulfstream/1858

John Seigenthaler’s Wikipedia entry was wrong for 132 days, which makes him unhappy. gulfstream/1893

Just discovered this. Are there any other groups aside from 43* and now 23* [update: oh, and 37*, whoops] that are using a number as a domain prefix?  … gulfstream/1906

Forgot to post about this a while ago: should Craigslist be held responsible for discriminatory ads? (“African Americans and Arabians tend to clash … gulfstream/2019

Figure I should put this up: the top 50 blogs in September 2000. gulfstream/2029

The ad-stripping, Cory-rant filtering version of Boing Boing has gone away. And because they sent a lot of traffic to one of his sites? Pussy. gulfstream/2092

On the origin and revival of Matthew Carter’s font Georgia. gulfstream/2104

The ten most visited sites on the net, and how many employees they each have. Craigslist gets by with only 23 employees (although it’s true that none … gulfstream/2186

URL design, and why the same piece of content should never be reachable by more than one URL. (See also Jacob Neilsen’s 1999 piece on the URL as UI.)(Listing … gulfstream/2225

Good overview of possible applications of OpenId, a promising approach to single sign on. gulfstream/2243

Google search of all the pages you’ve ever visited. You need to have the Google Toolbar installed. Must require a really nasty amount of computing … gulfstream/2273

I like this: when Google employee #23, creator of Gmail, suggester of the phrase “Don’t Be Evil,” can’t get to sleep at night, he writes webservers … gulfstream/2275

vi in Javascript! It includes spell-checking! gulfstream/2284

Movable Type 4 will be GPL’d, right about the time no-one uses Perl anymore. Once upon a time I tried Movable Type (I even contributed a small patch), … gulfstream/2286

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shaver » the missed opportunity of acid 3
acid3 "feels like a puzzle game"

Reading binary files using Ajax « nagoon97’s Weblog

Nina Katchadourian
artist tries to help spiders by mending their webs with needle and thread, spiders not impressed

The problem(s) with OpenID « The Identity Corner

Tripoli - a CSS standard for HTML rendering
reset + rebuild all style for cross-browser compatibility

Eric's Archived Thoughts: Reset Reloaded
reset + rebuild all style for cross-browser compatibility

XWT -- XML Windowing Toolkit

OpenLaszlo

XML.com: Very Dynamic Web Interfaces

Fiddler HTTP Debugger - Fiddler

Description of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Handshake

SISCweb

Top 10 Web fads - CNET.com

irt.org Home Page

The Truth About Download Time

Browsershots
web service; produces screenshots of a url in various browsers

MTBrowser - MultiBrowser Launch Program, Download and information.
opens multiple browsers at once (on your local machine)

BrowserCam : Screen capture and Remote Access service for cross platform compatibility testing and HTML design quality assurance.

Google Analytics

BKNR - BKNR Home

Weed - Like mint, but less green, if you know what I mean

Web Creme | Web design inspiration

PostcardViewer

symfony - open-source PHP5 web framework

10 Web Trends That Should Die in 2006

news @ nature.com - Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye - Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.

SitePoint Blogs » Javascript Inheritance

FastCGI, SCGI, and Apache: Background and Future at VMUNIX Blues

Yahoo! User Interface Blog

DNS Report

The Xapian Project
lucene competitor

stu nicholls | CSS PLaY | CSS demonstrations

Logahead - Just blog.

Ajaxian » Attack of the Ajax form builders

Visitors - fast web log analyzer

A (Re)-Introduction to JavaScript
excellent javascript (re)introduction

Relatively Absolute @ The Autistic Cuckoo

All Patterns - Yahoo! Design Pattern Library

Google Web Toolkit - Product Overview

FireBug - JoeHewitt.com

PNG in Internet Explorer: How to Use

InfoQ - Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community

Using prototype.js v1.4.0

Shiira Project

SIMILE | Timeline

Aptana: The Web IDE

Painless JavaScript Using Prototype [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials]

Reflective Cell-Organism Vision » Blog Archive » Summary notes from Joshua Schachter talk

Jim Roos: Playing With A Full Deck

Invaluable JavaScript Tools

Corunet. El blog » The definitive heatmap
details the architecture of the heatmap system

UIE Brain Sparks » Blog Archive » Article: The Quiet Death of the Major Re-Launch

The long road to simple: creating, debating, and iterating "Add an event" - Signal vs. Noise (by 37signals)

Optimizing Page Load Time - die.net

kuler
strange adobe color scheme sharer, picker thing (why?)

Dangerous words
writing for the web: words to not use

Trends · cavemonkey50.com

Hybridizing Java

as3corelib - Google Code
adobe's as3 libraries--includes json library, md5

Mint: SOME RANDOM DUDE

nice clean javascript for collecting web stats

Web Browser Standards Support
seemingly comprehensive chart showing what browser supports what feature

Introducing 3D Live Stats
whizzy real-time spinning world showing hits to a website

SQL Injection Cheat Sheet

Scribd - [ebook][e-book] 16 things it takes most of us 50 years to learn
page not really any good (see snopes), but interesting stats on bottom rhs

OpenLaszlo Project Blog » How we deal with browser quirks, with a compendium of IE 7 issues

5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne

Why you should be using HTML 4.01 instead of XHTML

Multithreaded status (Was: Re: best way to upgrade)
facebook uses memcached; one server gets 60,000 requests/second

Digital Web Magazine - Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today

Control.TextArea : Cross Browser TextArea Manipulation

Charles : Web Debugging Proxy | HTTP Monitor | HTTP Proxy | HTTPS/SSL Proxy | Reverse Proxy

OpenQA: Selenium

Automating Selenium IDE tests - Selenium IDE - Confluence

famfamfam: free icons
free icons, windows/ie-style, somewhat muted in style

Too-biased - Tobias Luetke's thoughts

The Web Analytics Graph Collection eSnips Folder

A bunch of presentations on scaling websites: twitter, Flickr, Bloglines, Vox and more.

Typogrify examples
tries to convert raw text into typographically nice HTML

TableKit
re-sortable table for prototype. (like yui's datatable, etc.)

HTML Entity Character Lookup

Of Bloat and Generic Code - Web Standards Group London May 2007

Chryler’s » Top Ten of Programming Advice NOT to follow

Pingdom Tools
firebug-like representation of a page's load times. includes css and js files, but doesn't seem to execute javascript.

moo.fx - size does matter
effects library for prototype that isn't scriptaculous ... because scriptaculous is a bit crappy

Web Design Practices | Home
pages on the design features of e-commerce sites, with illustrations of navigation techniques and graphs showing the location of the search box, etc.

RobotReplay - The Next Generation of Web Analytics

WordPress.com Stats « Extend › Plugins

Webmaster Help Center - Duplicate content

IE NetRenderer - Browser Compatibility Check -

XRAY :: for web developers
dom inspector bookmarklet; now works in ie!

CouchDb Project Website

ArchitectNotes - Varnish - Trac
the design of varnish, a reverse proxy. supposedly written the way kernel code is now written (no distinction between ram and disk--let the kernel worry about paging)

Welcome to the httperf homepage
like ab, but a bit different

Web Application Security - Joe Walker's Blog