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Recently, i continued porting the DENG1 CSS parser to ECMAScript 4, and making it fully compliant to the CSS 3 specification. The current AS1 version of the parser already has many CSS 3 features implemented, but not all of them (like the nth-child(), nth-last-child(), nth-of-type() and nth-last-of-type() pseudo classes for example, that required a special type of argument that wasn’t supported by the parser yet). Part of the work was commenting changes in the grammar, to know what was added or changed from the CSS 2.1 grammar, and to verify if the existing code fully conforms to the CSS 3 grammar. I figured this might be an interesting read for some of you, so here it is…

The FormFaces project team announced their open source ECMAScript XForms solution today. The engine processes XForms entirely on the client side and runs on any ECMAScript and DOM Level 2 powered Webbrowser (Internet Explorer, Mozilla, Opera, Konquerer, Safari and others)…

SEFFS Release Candidate 1 is here! SEFFS is a method to deploy Flash sites on top of XHTML in an unobstrusive way.

I am currently working on a unobtrusive method to deploy Flash on top of XHTML websites. The method is based on a simplified version of the sIFR (Scalable Inman Flash Replacement) JavaScript code. It solves several problems Flash developers have to deal with when deploying Flash

I don’t know if this is news, i just noticed it today: In addition to the JavaScript application Google GMail now features a fallback HTML interface that works with previously unsupported browsers (or with browser that don’t have JavaScript enabled). Also, GMail is now integrated into Google’s photo archive software Picasa, enabling users to send their pictures directly from within Picasa