Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.

The advantage of using unobtrusive javascript is that you can vastly improve the user experience for website visitors using just a snippet of code. And since the MooTools javascript framework’s community is known for creating unique, quality plugins, I’ve compiled a list of plugins you MUST use on every website to take the user experience to the next level.

In the future, hopefully every programmer will be relieved from the horrible pain of dealing with HTML, browser compatibility issues, CSS quirks and the same low-level stuff that used to be common before PL/SQL was replaced by ORMs.

It's an exciting time to be a web developer. The browser wars are in full swing, reminiscent of the mid-90s. Firefox 3.5 was released only yesterday with plenty of cool, new features including HTML5 support for audio, video, offline and local storage, and canvas text.

A lot of web developers still finding the best way to build a cross browser website. Especially showing it on ie6 browser, your beautiful looking website in Mozilla can become ugly and hideous website. Whatever the reason is, here I list some of the css hack for ie that I know.

How to: Capture browser close button event or exiting the page in javascript.

A showcase of 50 Free high-quality & New (X)HTML/CSS template. You will also find among these elegant templates a very well written step-by-step tutorials showing you how to create your own.

Google Map Reverse Geocoding Tutorial with Example

The blogosphere was jerked into excitement when Google gave a sneak preview of its new service, Google Wave. Only the select few have an account, but there’s an 80-minute video about it on YouTube for the rest of us. The service is an HTML 5 app, and so HTML 5 has gone from being too far away to care about to today’s hot topic.

how to implement a jQuery plugin to transform any dropdown into an indexed dropdown (specially useful when you need to deal with large number of options).

The plugin called jSlickmenu, creates, well, slick menus with jQuery. Combined with some great CSS3 features likes rotation and shadows, this plugin can really lift up your design. It's fairly easy to use, highly customizable and pretty cool (and fun!) to see.

There are numerous ways a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) can improves our web design and it’s not difficult to implement a few to make our website looks better and more user-friendly. Listed below are 10 cool CSS tricks that will improve your web designs instantly. T

Getting a fixed header and footer to work in IE6 can seem quite daunting. In this tutorial we’ll not only get it working in all the major browsers, but we’ll also cover all the necessary steps required in doing so. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to implement this into your own projects without having to copy and paste a thing.

We are having a great time using Canvas for Bespin and a few other projects. Having text, images, and boxes as the primitives on the Web just isn’t good enough, so leap frogging to HTML5-land where we have the ability to arbitrarily paint pixels is fantastic. Mix this with the ability to directly manipulate video, and you have new opportunities.

A specific type of design I’ve seen a lot lately is the iPhone app websites. They generally follow the same plan of attack but it makes me wonder – are these sites built to blend in with the rest of the pack or are there some that stand out?

Some simple but effective CSS rules for IE 6. All these CSS are used in a conditional CSS file for IE 6 to ensure CSS validity as some of the properties used here are proprietary to the IE 6 browser.

The month of July is come in it’s way, and it’s time to select the Best CSS Design for the month of June. There are 14 websites that are worth mentioning to. In no particular order.

The Technology Post for June 30th, 2009