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Almost 3,000 developers from Australia and abroad have voiced their opposition to the proposed intellectual property clauses in the United States-Australia Free Trade agreement. Read more »

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Laying out elements with the CSS box model

The CSS2 specification uses the box model as the basis for describing everything displayed on a Web page. This concept will require some rethinking by developers, but the flexibility of the design will pay off in the end. Read more »

Comparison of CSS compatibility on IE, Firefox, Safari and Opera

We compare support for CSS pseudo-classes in Internet Explorer 8, Firefox 3 Beta 4, Safari 3.1 and Opera 9.26. Read more »

Control element placement with CSS stacking

Positioning elements on a Web page with CSS has many caveats. One interesting scenario crops up when you need one element to appear where another element is already located. The issue is easily resolved using the z-index CSS feature to control the stacking of elements. Read more »

CSS 101: Handling multiple rules for the same element

Tony Patton examines the cascading aspect of CSS, that is, how multiple rules for the same element are handled. Read more »

Moving to CSS-based layouts with the YUI Library

This tutorial walks you through the steps of how to move from a table-based design to a CSS-based layout with the help of the YUI Library. Read more »

Embrace CSS with Friendly Control Adapters for ASP.NET 2.0

CSS is easy to apply in ASP.NET applications -- but it could be so much easier. The goal of ASP.NET 2.0 CSS Friendly Control Adapters 1.0 is to simplify CSS integration with its controls, making it easier to change appearances via CSS. Read more »

Build a better Web site by understanding floated elements in CSS

One of the most important concepts a Web developer can understand about CSS are floated elements, which serve a valuable function in aligning and positioning elements relative to each other. Read more »

Creating a fixed-width layout with CSS

The basic CSS technique is relatively simple, but not obvious. Here's what it takes to convert this old standby from tables-based layout to CSS. Read more »

Carefully choose the location for your Web code

Technologies like CSS and scripting languages have put the days of basic HTML behind us. The HTML standard provides numerous methods for combining these technologies to build dynamic sites, and it's helpful to be familiar with each approach. Read more »

Debug JavaScript, HTML, and CSS with Firebug

Firebug is a great development add-on for Firefox. It provides an integrated tool for monitoring and debugging JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Here's a look at Firebug's features and benefits. Read more »

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Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Competition: Send me to WebDU

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- We have five passes to give away to the upcoming webDU conference in March, worth $800 each. Read more »

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    In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

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    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

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    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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