Editors:
- Eclipse IDE with these plugins:
- PHP Development Tools (a subset of Zend Neon, free)
The easiest way to get these all together is to download the Zend PDT All-in-one package, then apply the Aptana plugin and the Flex Builder plugin to it.
Browser Plugins:
- FireBug - A very powerful debugging utility for FireFox. Features include HttpRequest monitoring, advanced JavaScript debugging and evaluation, DOM navigation and manipulation and much, much more.
- Chris Pederick’s Web Developer Plugin - Another FireFox plugin with a variety of handy tools for web developers. Some of my favorite features include easy window resizing, JavaScript toggling, form manipulation, header information, cookie information and layout inspecting.
Resource Sites:
- W3Schools - an excellent resource for JavaScript, HTML and CSS information
- Ajaxian - Ajax and other web-related news.
- Mir.aculo.us - Thomas Fuchs’ (Script.aculo.us creator) blog.
- Adobe Flex 3 SDK Reference and Tutorials
December 8th, 2007 at 1:49 pm
Hi Beau
I was wondering what you use for a png fix in IE6? I was looking at your demo of the tooltip you created (which is great) and realized how smooth the png worked when I viewed it in IE6.
Thanks
Del
December 9th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Hi Del,
Internet explorer has a built-in filter style that you can use to load alpha-channeled (transparency) images like PNG into a container object as it’s background. The syntax is as follows:
<div style="filter:progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoader(src='foo.png', sizingMethod='crop')"></div>
Beau