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Via Digg: This is a massive new release of jQuery that’s been a long time in the making – and it’s ready for your consumption! New features, plugins, and plenty of documentation to soak up. more

Via Information Week: It’s no surprise that most of the cross-browser issues out there center on Microsoft(MSFT)’s Internet Explorer and the Mozilla browser family — mainly Firefox.

Love it or hate it — and let’s face it, most of us probably either hate it or manifest mere tolerance for it — Internet Explorer is here to stay, the way Windows itself is probably here to stay. According to the most recent W3Schools report, IE in all its incarnations commands about 58% of the browser usage pie, down from its high of 90% or more, but definitely still large enough to matter. read

Via Lifehacker: Spicing up your computer desktop or documents is a cinch with the right fonts, wallpaper or icon set – but finding the best ones isn’t an easy task. Googling free wallpaper or fonts turns up a gaggle of random sites with flashy ads and mediocre art. In retaliation, today we’ve gathered up our favorite sources of quality, good-looking free desktop wallpaper images, fonts and icons for your downloading pleasure. more…

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Via softwaredeveloper.com: In the words of the rapper/entrepreneur and occasional developer Jay-Z, “If you got developing problems I feel bad for you son….”

A Web developer’s life is hard enough without having to go on the hunt for good developing resources. To help you take a load off, we’ve compiled a list of some of the best tools available. After using these resources, you may still have 99 problems, but we guarantee that developing ain’t gonna be one of them. more… link2, link3.

Via thembid: If you are not fully utilizing the cascading feature of CSS, or you just need a quick brush up, then you need to review this article. These techniques will help you avoid duplication and make it easier to maintain your styles. more…

Via Web Worker Daily: I can’t help it. Even though Safari has a nicer looking UI, and the most recent Windows update is leaking memory like a sieve, I keep running Firefox as my primary Web browser. Why? Because no other browser has managed to give me anything like the extensibility story that Firefox extensions bring to my daily web working experience. With thousands of extensions out there, your list may vary, but here’s my own selection of half a dozen essentials: more…

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren’t used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant. more…

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Via Wired: Hoping to win the hearts and minds of millions of internet programmers, the giants of the software industry are starting to sing a new song: Free your software and developers will follow.

Sun Microsystems, Adobe Systems and even Microsoft are starting to embrace the ideals of the open-source software movement, releasing software under liberal licenses in a bid to dominate the next-generation web. more…