IE and Windows XP Service Pack 3

Overview of what happens to IE when installing XP SP3. In short: – IE6: no problems there; All security fixes will be applied. – IE7: no problems there; Yet you won’t be able to uninstall it anymore. – IE8b1: “we strongly recommend uninstalling IE8 Beta 1 prior to upgrading to Windows XP SP3 to eliminate …

jQuery UI 1.5b4 released, with integrated jQuery Enchant!

jQuery UI 1.5b4 gets released with integrated jQuery Enchant (which was the missing part of ui: a library completely devoted to rich effects.)! Great to see this, as the role of jQuery UI now can be compared to what script.aculo.us is to prototype, but then to jQuery of course. Above that the jQuery UI site …

CSS Qualified Selectors

Shuan Inman writes about what he calls CSS Qualified Selectors, something that comes up in a discussion quite often. Basically it’s a way to select (for example) all a elements that contain an img. Although the functionality already can be found in jQuery (and I’m pretty sure in other JS Libs too) John Resig jumps …