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O'Reilly Network: Cross-Browser Style Objects [Jan. 25, 2002]
"In Chapter 6 ("Too Many Browsers? Not Really") of Designing with JavaScript, 2nd Edition , we explore various techniques for dealing with browser incompatibilities by using browser detection. We can serve different CSS stylesheets to each browser, contain incompatible DHTML in a single frame, or just check if an object is supported.

In this article, adapted from Chapter 11 ("Advanced Applications") of the book, I extend the capabilities of older browsers instead, by recreating crucial W3C DOM features like the style object and the document.getElementById() method, and making them available to 4.0 browsers with proprietary DOMs."

posted by creon @ 8:13:00 AM

Amazon.co.uk: At a glance: Designing with JavaScript
"I spent hours poring over books trying to decide which Javascript book would be best for my needs. Since I am a transitioning designer (from pure design to code) this book was perfect for me since it covers the most useful implementations of Javascript without strangling traditionally code-shy designers like myself.

"It has empowered me to write scripts of my own and I am now well on the way to having my own library of re-usable scripts."

posted by creon @ 1:38:10 PM

news.telegraph.co.uk - Getting to know the Hitlers
"For more than 50 years, the relatives of Adolf Hitler have hidden under false names in Long Island, New York. They have not spoken publicly since the Second World War. In a revelatory new book to be launched this week, they break their silence. David Gardner tells their story."

posted by creon @ 12:30:49 PM

Never did I think I'd agree with Pat Buchanan, but his latest book is the death moans of a very real phenomenon, though it misses the target when figuring out why Western Civilization^TM is Dying^(R).

Quite frankly, here's my prognosis: Western Civilization Will Eat Itself. For a quick example of what I mean, think about what the word "retro" has meant in the last five decades; when did the '60s become "retro?" How about the '70s? '80s? How long, seeing that it's now 2002, did it take for Nirvana to become retro? And what the hell is '00s style? Red, white and blue??

We're a rampaging bull, busting through obstacles in its way, with almost reckless disregard for anything that doesn't equal profit and scientific progress. In the last 75 years we've turned on a course for self-annihilation. Mass ignorance, bred by media saturation, civic apathy and corporate greed, has allowed this entire country to trot straight toward a cultural cliff. None of this has to do with immigration, and only jingoistic paranoics like Buchanan can believe it is, but with simple, petty, human greed. Our culture is so far behind the technology we possess, its utterly frightening; the widening gap in real economic power that's being driven by technology may push us toward a revolution within the next 50 years.

We have about 6 corporations that control 98% of all cultural production (TV, press, film, radio, Internet). Our last election was decided by the Supreme Court, after an extremely close election revealed a stark correlation between geography and politics, and made everyone question the integrity of our electoral and judicial processes. We have a depression epidemic, while we have more ways to treat than ever before; though we work more hours per week than any other country, we also owe more per capita, sublimating our stress, fears and desires with consumerism.

Americans need to let go of our Puritan work ethic and post-WWII superpower hubris, the very things Pat Buchanan wants so desperately to save, if we're going to save ourselves.

Immigrants tend to fill the lowest-end jobs, the farm jobs and factory jobs and environmental waste jobs that Buchanan would NEVER FUCKING DO, so stop blaming Hispanic immigrants, Pat. Try fighting all the native, Anglo, middle-aged men that keep beating the pants off you in every presidential election, rather than the poor and the brown that you've never met.

posted by creon @ 11:34:56 PM

Learning to love the computer, warts and all by Dave Barry

posted by creon @ 10:11:18 AM