Dimitri Glazkov has made a prediction that we will see CSS Grid Positioning in IE 8. This would make a lot of sense due to the fact that:

Alex Mogilevsky, and Markus Mielke, of Microsoft wrote the spec
If Microsoft comes out with a browser that goes above and beyond, they will be able to get rid [...]

Gino Cochuyt spent some hours to find the cause of memory leaks in IE when using instanceof.
He found at least 3 Objects that cause the memory leaks:

window
document
element

Just using - if (window instanceof Object) - for example causes a memory leak! that grows by 50 KB per refresh; the reason for this is because these 3 [...]

Eric Abouaf has released WireIt, a library that answers the though: “wow, I wish there was an API that did the UI bits that Yahoo! Pipes does.”
WireIt uses canvas, excanvas for IE, and YUI to get the job done. Take a look at the docs to see how it works.
Here is the code for simple [...]

Alex continues on truthiness with The W3C Cannot Save Us that follows on from the CSS uprising as we watch things crash and burn.
Alex discusses the Opera case (how it is a bad idea), and how Opera could be more productive.
He calls out how we can’t hide behind the “let’s just make IE work with [...]

One of the most popular Ajax-based applications/extensions, AjaxIM, recently got a major upgrade. For those that haven’t heard of it, AjaxIM is a Prototype-based instant messaging client that you can include in your web applications.
It uses AJAX to create a near real-time IM environment that can be used in conjunction with community, intranet, and social [...]

Thanks to the Ajaxian community for getting in feedback so quickly on the third annual survey. Richard has written up his thoughts on the data, which we have to remember, accounts for a small percentage of developers, and those that visit Ajaxian are probably not the norm
That being said, it is interesting to [...]

Joonas Lehtinen of IT Mill has shown us something that we should probably never do. As a proof of concept he decided to see if it was “possible to do a 3D-style animation in plain JavaScript without Flash, SVG, Canvas or any other fancy stuff.”
He ended up with a solution that:

Slice a image in 1px [...]

I’m not really accustomed to seeing a lot of UI press about GWT so I was pleasantly surprised when Dietrich Kappe showed me the new spinner control he’s been working on. Most of you have probably seen Flash-based implementations, especially on Amazon, where images spin on a type of carousel. It’s a very cool effect.

The [...]

Thanks to the Ajaxian community for getting in feedback so quickly on the third annual survey. Richard has written up his thoughts on the data, which we have to remember, accounts for a small percentage of developers, and those that visit Ajaxian are probably not the norm
That being said, it is interesting to [...]

After my Google Gears talk at JavaPolis, I spoke to the nice fellow, Cyprien Noel, behind JSTM, Java Shared Transactional Memory for GWT.
This tool allows you to automatically have state shared among clients. This could be a great solution for certain sync scenarios if we make it work in the Gears world. The same [...]