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This experiment allows for gradient backgrounds on elements by defining a six character hex value for the start and end color as part of the class attribute. No background-images are required. This has been tested and verified to work in MSIE6, Firefox 1.

an overview of AJAX without the use of XML.

That is, ThickBox can show html pages as well as images. The html that is shown inside ThickBox is pulled from the server using AJAX (really AXAH).

a number of new CSS techniques introduced for creating boxes with rounded corners, most notably those involving CSS and JavaScript and no images.

Basically, Nifty Corners are a solution based on CSS and Javascript to get rounded corners without images.

DOMtab is a JavaScript that turns a list of links connected to content sections into a tab interface. The script removes any "back to top" links in the section and automatically hides all but the first one when the page is loaded. You can use as many tabb

Excellent writeup on Using Javascript object notation.

discussion thread on ajax

DateBox is a pure JavaScript library using DHTML and advanced Date parsing to generate the date based on the grammar passed. The purpose of DateBox is to simplify the date entering process using grammatical terms we are all familiar with.

best of web dev stuff in 2005

very good piece on Inheritance using Javascript by Douglas Crockford.

The jsMath package provides a method of including mathematics in HTML pages that works across multiple browsers under Windows, Macintosh OS X, Linux and other flavors of unix.

A very easy to follow tutorial on how to create firefox extensions. With Pictures :)

AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JavaScript). It involves using XMLHTTPRequest (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHTTP) to retrieve (X)HTML (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML)

from Abe Fettig’s Weblog

ONJava.com: AJAX:

Brad Neuberg: Coding In Paradise: AJAX Tutorial:

good note on ajax

introduction to ajax

This chapter provides a brief reference for all of the methods, properties, and events available to all HTML and XML elements in the Netscape 6 DOM.

(with Baby Steps)

XMLHttpRequest Object Demo on Apple developer site