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IxEdit itself is made with JavaScript, and it is an entirely new type of design tool which is to be embedded in the HTML you are editing. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or IE becomes your interaction development environment. The interactions you create will be applied on-the-fly to the web page, so you can edit them while checking how they behave in real time.

Extensions built with eCSStender greatly simplify the design process because you can author modern CSS using advanced selectors, properties such as border-radius, or custom font faces and rest assured that your design will work... even in IE6. To see what you can use today, browse the extensions. To use the extensions, download eCSStender and include it and your extensions in your site.

I have created a monkey patch for jQuery (tested through 1.4.3) which enables you to independently set and/or animate both the scale and rotation of any HTML content with jQuery. This code uses the scale() and rotate() CSS transformations that are only supported by Webkit, Safari, Chrome, Firefox 3.5+, IE9 (Platform Preview 7+), and some versions of Opera at this time.

The release of Microsoft's latest OS Windows 8 is coming with a new version of Internet Explorer. This version is Internet Explorer 10 which also has a built-in spell checker tool. This tool automatically checks and corrects spelling and grammar in webpages. But, many users want to disable this feature permanently. Go through the Techvedic's present tutorial.

Typing a document on a laptop is an annoying and frustrating experience. Perhaps, you may have noticed the cursor moving or jumping randomly, whenever you are going to type some text on a document or on a Web browser or anywhere else. It reduces the typing speed and overall performance.

Here is good news for Facebook lovers. If you are a Mozilla Firefox user and spend most of your time on Facebook then the latest Firefox version is coming with a new feature called "Social API" which is helpful in accessing social networks like Facebook, Twitter, etc. As per this new feature, you can add social network buttons and sidebars in Firefox window so as to chat with your friends, checking messages, notifications, etc. get quick and easy.

Personalizing the Windows look has always remained in agenda for users, no matter which versions they are running on their computers. Windows 8 brought a new UI,i.e. "Metro Tiles", which received wide acclaimation from computer fraternity. Provoked by the new look, experts at Techvedic thought differently. And, they came with the same UI on Windows 7.

This is now the 3rd part of my current adventures in looking into CSS performance and how it performs in various states across various browsers.

I'm a new contributor to the SitePoint blogs and will mostly be covering front-end development and Semantic Web technologies. I'm looking forward to participating in the SitePoint community! Sometimes it's the simplest things that go unnoticed for the longest time. Case in point, while catching up on some WSG reading tonight, I saw a link to Paul Hammond's Conditional classnames for Internet Explorer. In a sentence, he shows how using conditional comments to customize the element's class name can be used to simplify CSS selectors for a number of advantageous purposes.

CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously. If you like this, you may be interested in our browser compatibility service, SiteVista. Yes, that's why this software is free! :-)

Here is a LIVE demo showing how input buttons are rendered in your browser. The 'Standard' column will look different depending on your operating system. The '+ Border' column shows the same buttons with a red border added. (This removes the default button style as seen in the first column.)