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This snippet scrolls newsitems (unordered list) horizontally. On mouse-over the scrolling ticker will pause. After moving your mouse out again it will resume animating.Code and example can be found here and here. 

Over the last three or four years the role of Frontend Engineering has become more important, more respected, more challenging, and more in-demand than ever before, and so Nate Koechley wanted to put a stake in the ground clarifying what we do, how we do it, and why it’s so important to raise it to a professional level. See the slides of his presentation: Professional Frontend Engineering.

Everyone now knows that reducing the amount of HTTP-requests is good for the site-performance. Using CDN is a way to reduce the amount of HTTP requests from one server, which improves the performance. Now Yahoo! comes up with Combo Handler Service which alows you to call several Javascript files by just one HTTP-request.

The official launch of Firefox 3 is nearby. Hopefully some anoying bugs will be fixed by then.

Firefox is trying to set a world record by getting as many people as possible to download Firefox 3 on one day. In other words “Spread Firefox | Download Day 2008″.

In contrast to previously made posts by the IEBlog team, Internet Explorer 8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most standards compliant way it can. This decision was made due to the pressure of the web community.

Image: create you own IE Voodoo Doll (photo taken by http://team.centrologic.com)

When using the IE6 fix (filter) for setting a (transparent) PNG as a background for a content box, element within this box can not be selected, clicked, etc. To overcome this problem, simply attach the style position: relative to the content of the content box.

Microsoft announced it will push Internet Explorer 7 next month (February 12) through the automatic update in Windows XP. Microsoft offers a solution for companies who want to keep Internet Explorer 6 on their company systems… but who wants to keep IE6? For us web developers February 2008 is the month Internet Explorer 6 support is history!

Do you want to create fancy headings without rendering each heading with Photoshop? WebDesignerWall has posted a simple CSS trick to show you how to create gradient text effect with a PNG image (pure CSS, no Javascript or Flash).

Microsoft “announces” it will release a beta of Internet Explorer version 8 in the first half of 2008. What’s new in IE8? It will at least support the web standard more than any previous version of Internet Explorer. IE8 now renders the “Acid2 Face” correctly in IE8 standards mode.