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Microsoft CDN now with SSL support

Following September's launch of the new Microsoft CDN (Content Delivery Network Service), in which you can reference ajax libraries in cache, Microsoft recently added SSL support, thus confirming Microsoft's announcement back then. This new feature is necessary in websites that have SSL enabled pages and script library references in them. What would happen until now was a message displaying "This page contains both secure and non-secure items...". SSL support is now enabled with the scripts hosted on the Microsoft AJAX CDN. Simply use an “https” moniker with any script references on your site that point to the CDN, and they...

jQuery Javascript Library Tutorial Part 2

Just posted another article from a series of articles regarding the jQuery Library. This next iteration explains all the major areas of this magnificent API, and targets element selection and filtering through some basic explanation and examples. Don't miss out if you're getting into jQuery.   jQuery Tutorial Part 1 jQuery Tutorial Part 2

PDC 2009 – Internet Explorer 9

A lot has been talked about recently regarding Internet Explorer 9. At the PDC, Steven Sinofski talked about IE9’s new development lines and there are some interesting features and improvements being taken care of. For starters, the standards! IE9 will support CSS 3.0 and HTML 5, which was already expected.   Performance-wise, Microsoft is making a huge investment. Performance disadvantages of IE8 are widely known and the team wants to change this in the 9th iteration of Internet Explorer.   Javascript rendering engine and DOM processing are getting huge improvements. Steven...