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Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 released
Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 has been released and is available for download for Mac (Universal), Windows, and Linux.
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One In Six Uses Firefox
According to Amsterdam-based OneStat, in US less than 80% of browsers used are Microsoft IE's (2.1% less in one month), and more than 15% for Firefox, an increase of 1.1% in just one month.
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Cloud Control for ASP.NET
This cloud control displays a list of hyperlinks in varying styles depending on a weight. This is similar to tag clouds in del.icio.us or flickr.
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The Museum of Modern Betas
This is really good fun, check this Museum of Beta sites, hopefully not a museum of antiquities and the number of Beta sites is just incredible. Welcome to the Web 2.0 world!
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X Library - cross browser Javascript library
If you are building an Ajax or a DHTML project, you will need sooner than later some scripts to make your code working in different browsers.
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Internet Explorer 7 New Beta 3 available now
Following comments from beta testers Microsoft has released a new Beta 3 for IE 7.
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[ASP.NET 1.x] Storing ViewState in Session State
A very good tip from MSDN magazine (July 2006). If you want to keep your ASP.NET pages lighter why not keeping lengthy ViewState in memory instead of the page.
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WinFS is dead
Well according to the WinFS Team themselves, what was supposed to be the new milestone of file storage for Vista seems to be dumped as a whole project.
"... These changes do mean that we are not pursuing a separate delivery of WinFS, including the previously planned Beta 2 release. With most of our effort now working towards productizing mature aspects of the WinFS project into SQL and ADO.NET, we do not need to deliver a separate WinFS offering. ..." -
My new pet project
Look what I developed in two weeks, thanks to .Net (1.1) and Ajax!
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Fixed Headers in large HTML Tables
Thanks to Karin Huber for this nifty Javascript code to fix the headers of any table.