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We often talk about how to make our websites more usable, whether it’s tweaking the HTML structure of pages to benefit the user’s process or figuring out how best to display a message via CSS. But we never bring this thought process into our jQuery-based (and other JavaScript-based) elements. How can we enhance the user experience and usability of our jQuery events?
This Smashing Magazine article discusses more.
An interesting read on the Surfin’ Safari Blog:
Before WebKit can render a web page, it needs to load the page and all of its subresources from the network. There are many layers involved in loading resources from the web. In this post, I’ll focus on explaining how WebCore, the main rendering component of WebKit, is involved in the loading process.
WebKit contains two loading pipelines, one for loading documents into frames and another for loading the subresources (such as images and scripts).
Peter Costello has surfaced in his first corporate stoush since trading Parliament for the boardroom, lobbying Ted Harris, the deputy chairman of APN News & Media, for board renewal.
The former treasurer, a partner at the advisory firm BKK Partners, has met Mr Harris twice as his firm tries to secure a vote against the re-election of the APN director Cameron O’Reilly, son of Sir Tony O’Reilly from APN’s controlling shareholder Independent News & Media, at the annual meeting on Friday.
Advertisers and media buyers are considering penalising websites that use auto-refresh in future advertising negotiations as publishers have so far failed to set rules governing the controversial practice. The Interactive Advertising Bureau will soon release industry guidelines on the issue after the practice of automatically refreshing the content and ads on web pages at set intervals was found to inflate key advertising measures.
Google has been fined $US8500 ($9100) in Brazil after an anonymous internet user posted defamatory messages on one of its sites against a priest, calling him a “paedophile”, media reported on Sunday.
A court in the state of Minas Gerais ruled in favor of the 54-year-old priest, identified by his initials J.R., after rejecting Google’s argument that the US web giant was not responsible for what users posted on its Orkut social networking site.
Ahead of Apple’s iPad launch in Australia next month newspaper publishers are pushing for the apps on the device to be counted alongside sales of printed newspapers in circulation figures.
Digital editions that mirror physical copies are already able to be counted but must be listed separately from the key circulation metric of average net paid sales.
Audit Bureau of Circulations chairman Stephen Hollings, who is also strategic sales director at News Limited, said there was broad support for including apps in circulation totals in some form.
More on theaustralian.com.au
Parallel Information Retrieval is a sample chapter in what appears to be a book-in-progress titled Information Retrieval Implementing and Evaluation Search Engines by Stefan Büttcher, Google Inc and Charles L. A. Clarke, Gordon V. Cormack, both of the University of Waterloo. The full table of contents is on-line and looks to be really interesting: Information retrieval is the foundation for modern search engines. This text offers an introduction to the core topics underlying modern search technologies, including algorithms, data structures, indexing, retrieval, and evaluation. The emphasis is on implementation and experimentation; each chapter includes exercises and suggestions for student projects.
More on highscalability.com
FAIRFAX will launch both free and paid apps for Apple’s iPad tablet computer device this year, according to Darren Burden, who is spearheading the initiative for Fairfax Digital.
Mr Burden is part of a committee working on Fairfax’s tablet strategy. It includes Robert Whitehead, who is head of marketing and newspaper sales for Fairfax Media, and Paul Ramadge, editor-in-chief of The Age.
Speculation surfaced this week that the group’s tablet strategy had been held up by disagreements over development funding between the print and digital arms of the company.
Mr Burden would not say if Fairfax would launch any apps in the first wave after the launch, but said talk of a spat was unfounded.
“We’re working together to launch iPad products,” he said.
From theaustralian.com.au
Most of the world’s sensitive data is stored in commercial database systems such as Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM DB2 and Sybase – making databases an increasingly favorite target for criminals. This may explain why SQL injection attacks jumped 134 percent in 2008, increasing from an average of a few thousand per day to several hundred thousand per day according to a recently-published report by IBM.
This white paper discusses the 8 essential best practices that provide a holistic approach to both safeguarding databases and achieving compliance with key regulations such as SOX, PCI-DSS, GLBA, and data protection laws.
The advent of Software as a Service and Cloud Computing has revolutionized the software industry by providing access to enterprise-grade software and services via the web to businesses of all sizes. SaaS and cloud environments are characterized by web-based delivery, multi tenancy, and centralized management and updates- completely unlike traditional software. As a result, new infrastructure and supporting services, such as integration, are crucial to the success of this model.