Eclectic Brain Salad

Hello everyone,

Today sees 2 fabulous new dev.opera.com articles published:

1. Setting web type to a baseline grid, by Craig Grannell - another in Craig's classic series covering modern web design basics.

2. Supporting IE with conditional comments, by our very own Bruce Lawson. In this 2008 remix of his classic conditional comments article, Bruce gives a modern perspective on using IE conditional comments sensibly to support older versions of IE without resorting to CSS hacks.

Bruce also held the fort on dev.opera.com admirably while I was on paternity leave for 2 weeks, publishing another 3 great new articles:

3. The freelancing business part 2: budgeting your projects, by R Blank. Part 2 of R's 6 part series on the business of web design/software development freelancing

4. Rich HTML editing in the browser, part 1, by Olav Junker Kjaer. Part 1 of Olav's series on rich HTML editing using designMode, contentEditable, etc.

5. Introduction to WAI-ARIA, by Gez Lemon. A milestone article - Gez delivers the most complete article yet on ARIA basics, helping to demystify it a lot. We will follow this up with more accessibility gems in the near future.

I hope you enjoy these - let me know if you have any comments, or thoughts on articles you'd like to see on dev.opera.com!

Hello folks! New on dev.opera.com this week we have:

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/mobile-ajax-and-the-frost-ajax-library/ - An introduction to the new Frost Mobile Ajax library, written by it's creator, Rocco Giorgi

http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/web-design-with-opera-mobile-in-mind/ - A rundown of things to watch out for in terms of Opera Mobile's standards support, and some good general tips of mobile web design, written by me.

Also check out http://labs.opera.com/ for a new link to Erik Dahlström's new blog post covering SVG video in the new Kestrel experimental build. Now we just need to make Mac and Unix versions available, and everything will be fine and dandy (we're working on it!)