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Stateful Skins in Flex 3

By Amy Blankenship
October 12, 2009

Even though stateful skins are simple to understand, they are not well documented and there are a few quirks both of stateful skins and of how some of the components work that meant that the concept is easier said than done. So maybe by joining me on my journey you can benefit from the simplicity and power without hitting all of the headaches. Instead of a full-blown tutorial, I thought I'd share a few concepts about how I approached the problem of creating a stateful skin and what I learned in the process.

Current CSS & formatting specs and drafts at W3C

By Rick Jelliffe
October 27, 2008

Here is a quick list of the current CSS specs and drafts from W3C.

How to create Tabs with CSS and jQuery from scratch

By Eric Berry
October 13, 2008

Learn how to create a tabbed content window using CSS and jQuery from scratch.

Video: A. Garrett Lisi on Using Wikis to Support Open Source Science

By Timothy M. O'Brien
September 25, 2008

A. Garrett Lisi gives a tour of the Wiki he uses to record his own research into Theoretical Physics. Lisi uses TiddlyWiki and jsMath to create a open, self-contained platform for scientific collaboration.

Excellent result for @charset detection of CSS in WWW browsers

By Rick Jelliffe
September 16, 2008

So, from these test results, it looks pretty good for adopting the same policy for determining the encoding for CSS files as you use for XML: if there is a BOM then use that (i.e. your document is in UTF-16 of some kind); otherwise use explicit labeling with an initial @charset.That works with all the current generation, which is really great.

High Performance Scalable Web Sites and Optimization

By Simon St. Laurent
July 10, 2008

O'Reilly published Building Scalable Web Sites, High Performance Web Sites, and now Website Optimization. How similar and different are these three books?

The recurring search for an XML version of CSS

By Bryan Rasmussen
June 26, 2008

There are various reasons why you might want a CSS version of XML, for me it was because I was programming for Cross-media generation and I wanted a way to reuse definitions easily in one format with other formats, so I wanted an XML format that I could reuse. This made it easier to control that presentations of the data in XHTML, PDF, Ebook, or Microsoft Help or Word files all had the same styling where relevant, or to do calculations from a base style that altered specific to the media.

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