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I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.
Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!
Thanks for your interest!

A very amusing tale, illustrating the process of a web site construction, is getting alive as an isometric animation at Icon Factory. Take a look: may serve also as an interesting pedagogical auxiliary to some of your clients!

If you, like me, use only one computer to do all your web page testing on windows, you’ll be happy to know that Jon Galloway has updated his IE7 Standalone Launcher so it accommodates IE7 Beta 3. I know I was!
His script is available at his site, where he describes its simple enough installation process. […]

The Microsoft Internet Explorer Weblog (known as IEBlog) has released the news that IE7 will be available on XP (that far we already knew) and that Microsoft will distribute it as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates. This last piece of information is of no little consequence… Specially for the internet professionals!

The automatic distribution means […]

New Riders is about to realease the first book by Peter-Paul Koch. It’s called, quite appropriately, ppk on JavaScript and it will be available sometime in the second half of August 2006 in the U.S.. Meanwhile, it’s already possible to pre-order it through Amazon.

Peter-Paul Koch, for those who don’t know him, is a freelance web […]

In the last post I subscribed the use of the Hungarian notation for identifiers in JavaScript. I’ve also subscribed the prefixes for JavaScript proposed by Nicholas Zakas. Today I discuss the Robert Reinhardt and Joey Lott’s specially modified for ActionScript Hungarian notation. The use of the Hungarian notation for the ActionScript 2.0 is being […]

There are three main well-known naming conventions, used for variables or any sort of identifiers, in computer programming:

Camel Notation– in this notation the first letter is graphed in lowercase and each appended word (if applicable) with a capital. Example: myIdentifier = 0
Pascal Notation– all words present in the identifier begin with a capital […]

Cameron Adams (aka The Man in Blue) has published in his blog, some days ago, this most convenient tip for Firefox: how to remove stored history and form data whithout erasing all the browser’s stored history. It’s probably something that the majority of you already knows, but for me and some others (judging by his […]

I’m sorry… There is no English version of this article.
Most of my English posts can probably be found in the Web Design related categories. The rest most likely wouldn’t be worth the time spent reading so you’re not missing much anyway!
Thanks for your interest!

Aha! Even one of the biggest and more innovative companies of web development – Google – admits having problems with the rendering engine of Safari (and, consequently, with Konqueror)! The following is an extract from the Google Analytic’s Help Center:
“Google Analytics reports are not viewable on Safari browsers on Mac OS X. Try accessing your […]

Browsershots.org is a public service, free and based on volunteers contribution (as happens with most of the best internet services nowadays). It provides a solution to one of the worse problems of web designers: testing web pages in different browsers. Browsershots.com is an invaluable service since not everybody has the means to acquire a […]