Very useful tool to build CSS3 tags for multiple browsers. Also a good reference to figure out which style applies for which browser (example: did you know that IE9 will support “border-radius”?).

Ars Technica on why blocking ads hurts the websites that you visit:

There is an oft-stated misconception that if a user never clicks on ads, then blocking them won’t hurt a site financially. This is wrong. Most sites, at least sites the size of ours, are paid on a per view basis. If you have an ad blocker running, and you load 10 pages on the site, you consume resources from us (bandwidth being only one of them), but provide us with no revenue.

A single line of javascript code that would upset everyone at Opera:

However, one of the world’s biggest hardware vendors – whose name every single reader will be familiar with, and whose hardware a good share of you will be using right now – apparently didn’t do their homework. When Opera’s sysadmin booted up the server to test their web-based administration interface, they came across a single JavaScript statement that managed to piss off everyone up to and including the CTO.

Hallvord R. M. Steen – Most expensive javascript ever?.

There’s a reason why the Canon 5D Mark II is the dream camera of hundreds, including myself. Video by Mike Kobal

If you’ve ever wanted to test your website/project in multiple versions of Internet Explorer without having to run virtual machines, the Internet Explorer Collection is perfect. Includes IE versions 1.0-8.0

Microsoft is using a ridiculous marketing tactic to get people to download and use their latest trainwreck web browser, Internet Explorer 8. They’ve created this campaign where you use Internet Explorer 8 and follow a twitter user to get clues to where this ten grand could be.

We’ve buried $10,000 somewhere on the Internet
and if you’re the first one to find it, you get to keep it.
But you’ll never find it using old Firefox.
(So get rid of it, or get lost)

Suuuuure, Firefox is old alright. And apparently IE 8 is a lot better than we all thought.

What’s even better? Someone who works for Firefox, created a website called TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com which is basically a Google map with a crop circle of the Firefox logo that you’ll see if you zoom in enough. Some nice marketing for Firefox.

Here’s a quick roundup of interesting CSS and Javascript related articles I’ve come across this week:

Everything You Need to Know About the !important CSS Declaration
If you’ve ever worked on a sizable web project you know how hard it can be to figure out which HTML element is using which CSS selector. And since CSS uses cascading, it can be harder to figure out if a CSS selector is overriding another CSS selector. One way to hack and fix this is to use the !important declaration. Of course, that has its downfalls too. This article does a fine job of telling you how !important works and when it doesn’t.

All About Floats
If you’re new to designing with CSS of if you’ve ever been confused about how Floats work in CSS, this article is just perfect. I’ve always had to decide if I wanted to use floats, or position elements absolutely and relatively before creating a template for a project. The author lists how Floats work, why they could break and most importantly, techniques you could use to fix them.

7 JavaScript Differences Between Firefox & IE
Every web browser does things differently (IE6 is a perfect example). But did you know that there a lot of significant differences in the way you use javascript in different browsers? This article lists 7 interesting examples where you have to use different javascript syntax’s to do the same thing. Of course you could always use jQuery (or another javascript library) and just forget all this, but its good to know how javascript works on the bare-bones level.

TinyBox JavaScript Popup Box
After looking around for a small script that does very basic modal pop-ups, I finally found one that does exactly what its supposed to in less than 4kb. Easy to use and no-nonsense

I mounted my camera on a tripod and strapped it in the passengers seat and programmed the camera to take a photo every 3 seconds for 35 minutes while driving around Dubai. You can see the Mall of the Emirates (at 00:25) and the Burj Dubai on the right (at around 00:34).

Driving in Dubai from Azeem Azeez on Vimeo.

Boston.com and The Wall Street Journal both keep really impressive photo-blogs that document current world events. There are several other websites that do this, but of these sites do a wholesome job of giving you a better idea on how things look like up-close.

A boy and a girl stand next to a makeshift tent at a camp for Internally Displaced People, on the outskirts of Mogadishu on May 21, 2009. The lives of more than 50,000 severely malnourished children are at risk after Islamist militants looted medical and relief stocks in a town in central Somalia, UNICEF said this week.(from Boston.com)		Girls covered their faces to avoid being photographed in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Friday. U.S.-led coalition forces killed 35 militants and wounded 13 others during a clash in southern Afghanistan, where insurgents killed eight truck drivers ferrying supplies for foreign troops, officials said Friday. (from wsj.com)