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Developing AJAX applications is just about to become a lot easier:

The goal of Open Ajax is to standardize around a common set of widgets, interfaces, and plug-ins to Eclipse so it can morph into an industrial strength rich web development environment. And with the standards, any Eclipse-compliant Ajax toolkit should be able to plug into any compliant Ajax run time, regardless of browser client or server deployment platform.

In effect, Open Ajax is intended to provide tools developers a common target to develop against. By providing a common technology base, it could stimulate an enterprise tools market, just as J2EE did for Java. In so doing, it creates the opportunity to build a critical mass skills base, which further entrenches the technology into the mainstream.

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Here is IBM’s Press Release.

IEs4Linux is already a few months old, but I’ve just come across it just recently. Previously, I’m running IE6 by using winetools on wine20050524. This time, with the advent of Wine 0.9x, somebody made the effort of creating a script for installing multiple IEs on Wine. Works with PCLinuxOS with Wine 0.91, though with some small problems initially.

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Tyler Hall has come up with a clever way to streamline edits for CSS constants (same styles repeated in different ids and classes) using PHP.

What’s more interesting though is the activity in the comments. It turned out that suggested technique has a security hole at the time the story made it to the front page of digg.com, in which the author has arrived at a pretty good tip. I’ll make it point to remember that too. ;)

Another interesting technique pointed out in the discussion is the CSS-SSC work by Shaun Inman. Thoughts by Eric Meyer.

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Very cool indeed.

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A very nice list of the most used JavaScript functions! A must read!

Pretty cool site design too (best viewed in Firefox)!

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