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Stuart Brown has written a nice article at Modern Life about the Core fonts for the Web and the New Vista Fonts; a fresh addition to the Web Typography. Once upon a time, back in the early days of the world wide web, when Windows 95 was still revolutionary and Internet Explorer was actually a sensible choice over the competition, Microsoft bestowed a gift unto the web which persists to this day: the Core fonts for the Web project.…

Ajaxian has published their second annual Ajaxian.com survey. The first three by categories are: Most Popular Ajax Frameworks Prototype - 43% Script.aculo.us - 33% Dojo - 19% Most Popular Ajax Platforms PHP - 50% Java - 37% .NET - 16% Read the original article here. Update from Joe Walker’s Blog (with a Java perspective): Most Popular Java / Ajax Frameworks DWR - 53% GWT - 15% AjaxTags - 7%…

Today I stumbled on an article from 5ThirtyOne about an IE7 JavaScript library simply called IE7. IE7 is a JavaScript library to make IE behave like a standards-compliant browser. It fixes many CSS issues and makes transparent PNG work correctly under IE5 and IE6 Impressive……

Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript, give a keynote at The Ajax Experience. Ajaxian have placed the presentation online so everyone can read up on some of the thoughts and discussion on JavaScript 2 and more. Here we got to hear from the mouth of someone deep into the ECMA process about what we are going to see in JavaScript 2 and importantly why: Motivation for JS2 Fix problems in JS1 that bug people daily A type system to enforce invariants instead of writing/debugging lots of value-checking code optional annotations, an extension to JS1 Programming in the large Package system Visibility qualifiers (namespaces, private internal public) Optional static type checking Support bootstrapping and metaprogramming Self-host most of the standard objects Self-host compiler front end and type checker Reduce need for future ECMA Editions As Brendan flicked through these slides, I couldn’t help buy realise how important the decisions are.…

Max Kiesler as posted in his site an article with 60 more AJAX tutorials. These examples and how-to’s represent the best tutorials that I’ve personally used or otherwise had the opportunity to work with out of the overall group. This post is intended for individuals who learn best by example. Most of the listed tutorials come complete with instructions and source code. Read the 60 More AJAX Tutorials full article.…

When you’re a web developer, you always keep running into annoying Internet Explorer bugs, so you need to hack your way around. Now with the IE7 out, a lot of the old CSS hacks don’t work anymore, and those that do still work, can’t be relied on to work in the future. IE has a feature, called conditional comments, which could help us. As a hack it’s quite useful. IE 7 will support this too, and it even allows you to detect different versions of IE.…

Max Kiesler has posted on his site, a listing of 50 different Ajax toolkits and frameworks, and a listing of 30 different AJAX Tutorials. Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks Round-up of 30 AJAX Tutorials Of course, the lists are by no means complete, but they do include not only the “big names” but also several of the smaller, lighter libraries the web has to offer.…

Dion Hinchcliffe from http://web2.wsj2.com/ has written a great Enterprise Web 2.0 software list article. It has an extensive list of many enterprise-ready Web 2.0 software applications.…

If creating standards-compliant, cross-browser compatible page layouts using CSS has you stumped, let A List Apart and SitePoint’s CSS gurus show you that way. In this comprehensive, step-by-step tute, Matthew Levine from A List Apart and Rachel and Dan from SitePoint show you how to create a slick, flexible, and solid 2/3-column layout that will stand the tests of time and evolving technology! In Search of the Holy Grail (3 Column CSS Layout) by Matthew Levine in A List Apart.…

The first official release of the ASP.NET Atlas Toolkit is ready! For controls and templates that make adding client-side functionality to your site incredibly easy see Atlas Control Toolkit.…