
Apple is well known for their innovative thinking in just about everything they do. Now they’re making a bid to add rich 3D effects to CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), potentially rivaling (or replacing?) Flash as the de-facto animation tool for websites. (more…)
If you find yourself needing to validate a URI, not just checking that it’s well formed with a regular expression like this:
/^(http|https|ftp):\/\/([A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*(?:\.[A-Z0-9][A-Z0-9_-]*)+):?(\d+)?\/?/i
…but actually verifying that the URI points to a functioning web page, the following code will do the trick. (more…)