YIPPEEEEEE!!!

The search grid has been included by Ted Patrick (Flex Evangelist, Adobe Systems) in his list of text filtering examples.
There is a very useful UI pattern emerging for RIA applications in terms of filtering results. Basically as a user enters data and results are filtered in real time. I have seen many [...]

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del.icio.us: what is web 2.0?

Lets take a look at all the tag data going back to February 2004 (the month of the first use of Web 2.0 as a tag on del.icio.us), and analyzed all the bookmarks and tags related to the term. We can report that as of October 31, 2005 there have been over 230,000 separate bookmarks [...]

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[Manish Jethani] Unobtrusive ActionScript (MXML)

Separating structure from behaviour
In HTML, inline event handlers are considered to be a Bad Thing (TM). To understand why, one needs to think in terms of the typical designer-developer workflow.
There are broadly two roles in the development of a UI: the designer, who does the visual/layout design, and the developer, who codes in the user [...]

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A List Apart: Articles: Bye, Bye EMBED tag

It has always gotten my goat that Internet Explorer’s non-standard use of the object tag has forced standards-loving browsers to use the non-standard embed tag in order to embed movies on a web page. Even on Apple’s site, the embed tag—a Netscape extension, for Pete’s sake!—is so entrenched that it’s hard to even find information [...]

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