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Interesting Web Tech Related Articles

Xah Lee, 2005-05, …, 2011-07-01

Some random collection of interesting articles related to web tech. This list is just for me. My own articles isn't included here.

HTML5 Demo Sites

• HTML 5 Rocks By Google. @ html5rocks.com.
• HTML5 propaganda from Google. 20 Things I Learned About Browsers ＆ the Web By Google. @ 20thingsilearned.com

HTML5 Articles

• Flash and the HTML5 <video> tag (2010-06-29) By Google. @ Source apiblog.youtube.com.

HTML5 Tutorials

• 10 Obsolete features @ http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/obsolete.html.

• HTML 5 Demos and Examples By Remy Sharp. (open source) @ http://html5demos.com/
• Dive Into HTML5 by Mark Pilgrim. @ diveintohtml5.org

javascript

• JavaScript Madness: Keyboard Events (2011-01-19) By Jan Wolter. @ Source unixpapa.com
• Google javascript library Closure Library. It's used by many of Google's services (e.g. gmail, maps, docs, sites, books, reader, blogger, picasa) Heavy weight. It even supports drag'n'drop. At http://code.google.com/closure/library/.
• Underscore.js is a javascript library that provides a set of functional programing functions. @ http://documentcloud.github.com/underscore/
• Prototype.js, a library for ajax. (oldish)
• Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library By “Yahoo!”. http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/
• Google OpenSocial API: http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/. A API for building social networking sites, so that all social networking sites can have one unified API.
• Google Web Toolkit. You use Java to create a GUI app, then the kit will compile it into HTML and Javascript so it can be deployed on the web. Seems that Gmail and GoogleMap is written this way.

• Google JavaScript Style Guide By Google. @ Source code.google.com
• Google XML Document Format Style Guide (2008) By Google. @ Source google-styleguide.googlecode.com

HTML

• Google's Web Authoring Stat, ~2006-01: http://code.google.com/webstats/index.html

Web Tech Surveys, Stats, Articles:

• http://www.webdevout.net/ (by David Hammond. A large site on CSS conformance across browsers, and other articles. Heavily biased against Microsoft.)
• http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html. “Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site” (2008-07) By Yahoo.

Database

• “The Move to Store Images In the Database”, By Marcel Kratochvil, Piction. (accessed 2005) http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/intermedia/htdocs/why_images_in_database.html

Great Tools

• http://habilis.net/validator-sac/. A HTML validator program. Can be used to batch validate files.

DHTML References

DHTML References. Tutorials and References on HTML, CSS, Javascript, DOM.