Anders Pearson has a neat JavaScript that allows you to resize textarea elements by dragging a resize handle.

Bob Vandersluis offers Ten good practices for writing JavaScript in 2005. Some excellent advice here. With AJaX being all the rage right now, I think that his first point is excellent. He states that you should “Make sure your JavaScript code is in balance with its environment” and points to the fact that Web Standards relates not only to markup and style, but also interactivity using JavaScript.

AJAX Matters is a new site that has tonnes of great information on Asynchronous JavaScript and XML and XMLHTTP development information. Visit the site to find links to articles, blogs, books, tutorials and references.

It was once said that styling select elements was impossible. Well, with a little JavaScript and CSS, you can now create nice, backwardly compatable drop down lists for your HTML forms.

I’ve been playing around with a feature of DOM2 called the TreeWalker Interface and I am finding it to be a great way to select DOM nodes based on an arbitrary filter. The only problem with the TreeWalker interface is that it is only supported in Mozilla browsers (not sure about Safari). I did come across a script at dithered.com that promises to extend the TreeWalker interface to IE5+, but I cannot seem to get it to work. Even after extensive Google searches, I cannot seem to find any solutions.

So my question to the community, is has anybody been successful in using the TreeWalker Interface in IE? If so could you please send me along some examples or links. Thanks!

If you’re running OSX Panther, you can now update to version 10.3.9 which includes Safari 1.3 and new versions of WebKit, WebCore, and JavaScriptCore that contain thousands of improvements Apple’s made to the engine since Safari 1.2. You can view all the major changes at Surfin’ Safari.

If you’re going to embark on a first-time DOM scripting project, I would definately suggest starting your journey by visiting the Quirksmode DOM Introduction pages. Another nice section is filed under Javascript and explains cross-browser Event compatibility which is essential to understand in order to create web applications that make use of AJAX based technologies.

Apple has just released a list of 200 New Features in the next version of it’s OSX operating sytem.

Douglas Fisher suggests that Greasemonkey just might be TiVo for the Web. Greasemonkey is a very cool extension for Firefox (other’s are available for IE and other browsers) that let’s you run site specific Javascripts that can alter the behaviour and display of any page on the target domain. This means that we can do neat things like remove all Google results that come from About.com or allow us to read the NY Times Online for free!

Check out this “huge list”;http://dunck.us/collab/GreaseMonkeyUserScripts of Greasemonkey User Scripts, and it won’t take you long to realize the impact of this new technology.

consumating is a beta online dating site that uses folksonomies – tags like those used in del.icio.us and Flickr – to allow people to meetup.