DevEdge News: The Netscape Gecko Cross-Browser Development Newsletter 2003 Issue #3 - 7 April 2003 Dear Web Developer, You have received this newsletter because you subscribed to devedge-news@netscape.com. Subscribe and unsubscribe information is located at the end of this newsletter. <-------------- I N T H I S E D I T I O N -----------------> 1) Take the 2003 Netscape/Mozilla Developer Survey 2) ESPN Redesigned Using Standards 3) Make Your Business Case With DevEdge Strategy Central 4) Midas - Rich Text Editing in Mozilla 1.3 5) Updated xbPositionableElement JavaScript Library 6) Interacting with Viewpoint Content via JavaScript 7) Lecteurs francophones, visitez OpenWeb! <---------------------------------------------------------------> ------------------------------------------------------------ 1) Take the 2003 Netscape/Mozilla Developer Survey ------------------------------------------------------------ Who are you? We'd like to know. Please take a few minutes to tell us your thoughts about the DevEdge website and Netscape/Mozilla browsers. Your response will be used only to improve our website and browsers. We hope you'll make your voice heard! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=29127192117 ------------------------------------------------------------ 2) ESPN Redesigned Using Standards ------------------------------------------------------------ ESPN.com, one of the Web's biggest sports-related sites, is moving to standards-based, non-table layout. In "An Interview With Mike Davidson of ESPN," Eric Meyer speaks with ESPN's Mike Davidson about their strategy as well as the nuts and bolts of ESPN's redesign. http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/espn-interview/01/ (Hot on their heels, http://www.fastcompany.com/ also just launched a standards-based redesign.) ------------------------------------------------------------ 3) Make Your Business Case With DevEdge Strategy Central ------------------------------------------------------------ Need to make a case for standards-compliant Web sites? DevEdge's new Strategy Central pulls together case studies, articles, and presentations on the benefits and power of using standards. http://devedge.netscape.com/central/strategy/ ------------------------------------------------------------ 4) Midas - Rich Text Editing in Mozilla 1.3 ------------------------------------------------------------ Take a tour of Midas, an implementation of Internet Explorer's designMode feature that debuted in Mozilla 1.3. This feature exposes JavaScript methods that add rich-text editing capabilities to HTML documents. http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/midas/01/ ------------------------------------------------------------ 5) Updated xbPositionableElement JavaScript Library ------------------------------------------------------------ If you're using our xbPositionableElement JavaScript Library, you may have noticed a bug that occurs in Netscape 4.x. We've updated the library, which is available at: http://devedge.netscape.com/toolbox/examples/2002/xb/xbPositionableElement/ (Thanks goes out to Mike, a developer who reported the bug to us.) ------------------------------------------------------------ 6) Interacting with Viewpoint Content via JavaScript ------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how to script the Viewpoint Plugin, a real-time 3D rendering and interactive engine that enables creation of rich media dynamic content in Netscape Gecko. Viewpoint is bundled with Netscape 7.x. http://devedge.netscape.com/viewsource/2003/vmp-scripting/ ------------------------------------------------------------ 7) Lecteurs francophones, visitez OpenWeb! ------------------------------------------------------------ The recently launched French-language OpenWeb site offers a wealth of information about W3C technologies including XHTML, CSS, the DOM and web accessibility. We congratulate Tristan Nitot, one of our team mates who led the creation of OpenWeb. Bravo ! Allez a http://openweb.eu.org/ ------------------------------------------------- HOW TO SUBSCRIBE/UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DEVEDGE NEWS ------------------------------------------------- Got feedback? Email devedge-news-request@netscape.com, or visit our community page at http://devedge.netscape.com/community/ . * To unsubscribe send an email message to devedge-news-unsubscribe@netscape.com with "unsubscribe" as the subject. * To subscribe send an email message from the address you wish to subscribe to devedge-news-request@netscape.com with "subscribe" as the subject.