Web Development

Conditional-CSS script

conditional-css.com

Conditional-CSS allows you to write maintainable CSS with conditional logic to target specific CSS statements at both individual browsers and groups of browsers.

  • Target CSS to any web-browser
  • Streamline maintenance of your CSS files
  • Optimise your CSS
  • Work around those annoying little CSS bugs
  • Automatic expansion and inclusion of @import statements
  • It's free and open source!

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View documents without having to download file

Smart Look

Smart Look is a new free online service which help to turn all the document-download links on your site into browser-viewable documents. It works for PDFs, slideshows, or regular text documents. You just insert some code onto your site, and it does the rest. Instead of an embedded viewer, it launches a new overlay window where you can see the document in all of its glory, search it, page through it, and even print it.

Check out the sample site: ismartlook.com

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VirtualBox from Sun

Virtualbox

Virtualbox is a family of powerful x86 virtualization products for enterprise as well as home use. Not only is VirtualBox an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL). See "About VirtualBox" for an introduction.

This is a great free alternative to run a virtual machine on Windows, Linux, Macintosh and OpenSolaris.

How to copy/archive a site with only FTP access

Anyone who has used a FTP program will know how cumbersome it can be to download or upload individual files. To save some time, here's an excellent tip on copying/archiving a whole site with FTP access, thanks to Khalid.

All that is required is to place a PHP script on your server and run the script via web browser.  read more »

Opera 9.5 released

Opera 9.5

Opera is now out of beta and has released a final version of 9.5. It comes with many features including the following:

  • excellent support for current standards — (X)HTML, XML, XSLT, CSS 2.1, SVG 1.1
  • partial implementations of new emerging standards — CSS 3, HTML 5, and ARIA

Download a free copy of Opera 9.5