a pint of javascript (and general web stuff)

Day after day we see a new release from one of the major internet browser developers boasting how they comply with web standards and how they are targeting a gazillion of experimental features that no one cares about (I bet only 3% of web developers cared to study the bible of -webkit prefixes), yet except for Firefox* all of them get border-radius completely wrong (Firefox actually has a minor annoyance but it's bearable). Can you say you are standards-compliant if you have a broken implementation?
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Dear Steve Jobs: you don't have a clue.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the world of the sad truth you didn't want to read. Today is the day to settle once and for all the moot debate around "HTML5 vs. Flash". The vicious debate that is clogging the intertubes is utterly pointless, yet still there's a big crowd of fundamentalists that don't get why.

Let's put some nails in the idiotic debate coffin.

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A few months ago you may have read Dave Shea's entry on A List Apart "CSS Sprites2 – It's JavaScript Time" where he implemented a variant of his own CSS Sprites article by adding jQuery based animations. In this same article Dave encouraged us [developers] to port it to other libraries, so after a few months of inactivity I'm back with the MooTools port of this slick effect.
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After several requests to update the script, I finally had time to make the update. In fact the script was under production for more than a month running over mootools SVN builds. The update also comes with a couple additions suggested by users, and also some optimizations thanks to the new mootools 1.2 element storage.

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I know, it's quite ironic to call unobtrusive a popup window. However there are times when clients, coworkers or maintainers demand for a "simple" popup window solution. It's for that cases that I built moopop some months ago and I'm now sharing the code.

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let me tell you something: editing a wordpress theme using the wordpress interface plainly sucks.

And no, it's not a problem of being a newbie in wordpress, it's just that there's too much duplicated code revolving on the structure, at least on the default Kubrick theme that is supposed to be the one that shows off most of wordpress "features".
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