Xpath is used to get to a specific element, or node set in xml. But how does it work?
First, a piece of xml.
<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?>
<navigation>
<menu>
<name>Contact</name>
<item id=’1′>
<caption>Address</caption>
<link>http://link/</link>
</item>
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Prefetching is a technique used by Firefox and Mozilla to fetch a page before the link is actually clicked. It uses the idle time of the browser to get the contents you would probably want to see next. How does it work, and why would you want to use it?
How it works is quite simple, […]

If you’ve ever read Nielsens top ten webdesign mistakes you’ll know that one of the mistakes that comes back year after year is not differing between visited and not visited links. The question generally is how to do this without breaking the design.
Designing a different mark-up for the current active link, and giving visited […]

What is web 2.0? Is it just a buzz-word used to sell, or is it a technology?
Web 2.0 got it’s name from the web 2.0 conference and at first meant nothing. Now however web 2.0 points to a number of vague things like ajax, and democracy, and user based content. Web 2.0 means nothing. […]

After the succes of Adobe/Macromedia’s dreamweaver, illustrator, photoshop, fireworks and flash Microsoft decided they should not be left behind. So Microsoft is coming with the expression family. The expression family consists of 3 products, the graphic designer, the interactive designer and the webdesigner.
Expressions Acrylic graphic designer
This one seems most like a combination of photoshop and […]

It seems that a lot more emphasis is put on search engine optimalization (seo) the few months than it has before. Today I’ve been explaining to a client how he needs to write his text in order to be found easier on search engines. So let’s write a small post about seo.
Flash
One of the things […]

HTML validation This amazing firefox extension by Marc Gueury shows you, at the bottom of each page how many errors and warnings there are in that page. It does this without sending the html of to w3c or another validator, but uses tTidy the embedded validator of Firefox originally made by the w3c.
As this […]

I’ve been working on some flash stuff lately, building a semi 3d world through which one can roam somewhat freely. However I found some weird behaviour in Flash. Apparently, new means second hand.
The as class
class Line {
var values_arr = new Array();
function Line() {
}
function setArrayValue(i:Number):Void {
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