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Net Neutrality Advocates Rear Their Heads in Obama Transition Team

Nov 17 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | 1 Comment

Sarah Lai Stirland reports in Wired that Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, and Kevin Werbach, a former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual tech conference Supernova, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team’s review of the FCC. Susan has notably pursued greater broadband access for Americans and believes that internet access is “like water, electricity, sewage systems: Something that each and all Americans need to succeed in the modern era.”

Good news for the Web and the future of Web design indeed.

Read more here.

CSS Sprites2 in Prototype and script.aculo.us

Nov 10 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment

Over the weekend, I finally got around to porting Dave Shea's CSS Sprites2 technique to Prototype and script.aculo.us.

My version of CSS Sprites2 is almost exactly the same as Dave's, but it also includes keyboard support. There's a matching focus, blur, keydown and keyup event handler for each mouse event handler.

Get CSS Sprites2 for Prototype and script.aculo.us.

Jeffrey Barke is senior developer and information architect at theMechanism, a multimedia firm with offices in New York, London and Durban, South Africa.