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We visited this concept of re-sizeable background images before… but reader Doug Shults sent me in a link that uses a really awesome technique that I think is better than any of the previous techniques.
This technique and the above background image is credited to this site. Here is what this technique is going to accomplish:
Fills entire page with image, no white space; Scales image as needed; Retains image proportions; Image is centered on page; Does not cause scrollbars; Cross-browser compatible; Isn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash.

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Beautiful? Government Website? Is that even possible? Oxymorons aside, we had to dig deep to surf our way through some of the most mind-numbingly aesthetic and usability challenged un-noteworthy websites of all time. At some points, I kind of felt like George W. Bush designed and Cheney programmed these themselves they were so bad!… but I managed to make it through without too much alcohol to bring it to you all with some honorable mentions to boot.

Не существует самого лучшего браузера, самого лучшего текстового редактора, самой лучшей операционной системы… А самая лучшая кодировка существует. Это UTF‑8.

Virustotal - сервис, который анализирует подозрительные файлы и облегчает быстрое обнаружение вирусов, червей, троянов и всех видов вредоносных программ, определяемых антивирусами.

This is a Javascript library that sandwiches PNG image support into IE6 without much fuss.
You can use PNGs as the SRC of an

I never meant to become obsessive about getting PNG transparency working nicely in IE6. In the summer of 2003, I hit across a situation on a client project where what the designer wanted required the use of PNG transparency. The script that came to hand to get this working in IE6 at the time was called Sleight, but that only dealt with applying the filter to IMG elements. My design needed to do the same for CSS background images, so I hacked up a different version of the script for that purpose, called it bgSleight, and occasionally updated it.

I've scoured the web for resources and also included some of my own fixes for IE6 and now I've put it all together in this cheatsheet/reference manual as a resource for anyone who has to deal with Internet Explorer 6. Where possible, I've done my best to provide the cleanest and valid solutions to each bug instead of ugly hacks. I've also tried to give proper credit for each case, but some of the solutions have been shared so many times that finding the original discover of each fix is difficult. If you see a missing credit or if I missed a bug and fix, please contact me and let me know and I'll update this page.

Так как IE6 не поддерживает значение fixed свойства position, обычно для эмуляции данного эффекта используют position:absolute и CSS expression. Однако в результате при скроллинге или изменении размеров окна браузера возникали небольшие подёргивания фиксированного блока.

The Typotheque Web Font Service enables you to use custom fonts in your website using the @font-face rule in CSS. Just add a line of code to your page and get it working in minutes. Simple, fast and standard-compliant.

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Changing the position of the background image felt to be the best approach to creating the type of effect we're looking for (and I'm not the first to think so: see the examples at the end of this article).

jQuery is a great library for this type of task but out of the box, it can't animate background position properly because of the need to animate two values instead of just one (too bad not all browsers implemented the non-standard background-position-x and -y like Internet Explorer). Grab the latest version (1.0.2 as of this writing) of the Background-Position plugin.

Методы querySelector() и querySelectorAll() позволяют принимают в качестве аргументов CSS-селектор и возвращают найденные элементы в виде элементов DOM. Например: document.querySelector('#content img:nth-of-type(1)');

Interfaces made for various movies

SuperGenPass is a different kind of password manager. Instead of storing your passwords on your hard disk or online—where they are vulnerable to theft and data loss—SuperGenPass uses a hash algorithm to transform a master password into unique, complex passwords for the Web sites you visit. There’s no software to install: SuperGenPass is a bookmarklet and runs right in your Web browser. And since it never stores or transmits your passwords, it’s ideal for use on multiple and public computers. It’s also completely free.

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As a Mac OS X user, I took some time to understand how I could best use Dropbox, given the way that it works. Thanks to all the Forum users who helped me understand this.

Не знаю, может у яблока так принято, но создавать кучу скрытых файлов на съемных дисках (флешки и проч.) - как то не красиво. Особенно, когда тебе чужую флешку дают, а ты возвращаешь "помойку" на ней. Очень некрасиво.

Adds a small color picker dialog when editing CSS rule in Firebug. The addon scans for values that can be parsed as CSS colors (#abc, rgb(1,2,3), blue, red etc.) and displays them in a drop-down list right below the firebug's CSS editor box. Clicking on the color value in the drop-down brings up a color picker dialog.