Eric Meyer has put together a proposal for HTML 5 to enable an HTML document to associate URL links with just about every visual HTML element type. This would make it much easier to make a blockquote link to the source of the quote, and would enable things that are currently impossible in HTML such [...]

Classmates.com Cancels IPO

 Posted by Danny Thorpe at 11:57 am  Web
Dec 132007
 

The New York Times reports that United Media has withdrawn its proposal to IPO its Classmates.com unit. United Media cited “unfavorable market conditions” for the withdrawal, but Cowen & Co. analyst Jim Friedland puts it more bluntly: “We expect the Classmates.com subscriber base to peak in the first half of 2008, followed by a steady [...]

 

A few posts ago I promised to elaborate on a little gotcha that bit us in the butt while prepping the “blocks” to enable Popfly apps to use the Windows Live Contacts web control and Windows Live Spaces web control .  Here it is:  IE has a handy document.namespaces object that reflects the namespaces defined [...]

 

Scott Isaacs shares some additional “best practices” points on dealing with popup windows and popup blockers: Always program window.open() very defensively… Always try catch any calls to window.open() and if you are retaining a reference to the window (e.g., var w = window.open(…)), always make sure the “w” is a valid object (and again try [...]

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