We all know that the Google Video Player is Flash based and that most Flash movies can be customized using additional parameters. So what parameters does Google use that will allow us to customize our players? Google Operating System blog has a short little post that will show you how to Customize the Embedded Google Video Player.

I never knew about this bug until working on a recent project. The client noticed that our banner image (set using css background-image) flickered in IE6 when the mouse rolled over any anchor. Thanks to No IE6 flicker, Sir I discovered the problem has to do with Internet Explorer 6 checking for a newer version of the background-image css property every time you move the mouse over a link.

Mootools is a small object-oriented JavaScript library that is crossbrowser compatible and easy to use. Some features include DOM effects, Ajax, DOM Navigator, drag and drop, sortable lists, cookies management and much more. The framework also makes it easy to extend HTML elements with your own methods, to help make your coding style way cooler.

One of the nicer features is the way you download mootools. You choose the features you want to use, and mootools packages a custom JS file that includes all dependencies. This makes mootools very small and efficient!

A new feature that was quietly added to Firefox was support for Microsummaries. Microsummaries are regularly-updated short summaries of web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, they provide more useful information about pages than static page titles. Microsummaries are represented using an XML document that could be created dynamically. They are associated with your page by adding a link element to your page and specifying the URI to your microsummary.

Do you hack your way around a terminal window in Linux? If so, here are a bunch of Linux keyboard shortcuts you should know about.

If you’re trying to follow all of the new web frameworks out there, The Django Book is a good place to start learning about this new Python framework. The book is published with a GNU document license but will eventually be published by APress. There is currently only one chapter available, but the authors goals are to add one new chapter per week.