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Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) has been around since the dawn of time. Well, since 1999 when the W3C started work on it at least. I remember doing some at University and needing various plugins depending on which browser you wanted to render the end result in.

Due to the recent anticipation and uptake of HTML5 compliance in modern browsers (allowing for elements such as <canvas> – which allows developers to harness the power of vector graphics directly on web pages).

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It can often be difficult to match functionality with the expectations raised by a design for a website. Often, the coding of a site has to be moulded to fit the design to get the most out of both. This is very true when relating to forms on websites. Simply put, forms are containers for elements allowing you to create things such as sign-up forms and pages used to capture checkout information.

One issue of effective coding is code re-use. If you have 5 separate forms on a page for example, and all of them share one piece of information, then why would you want to repeat that information more than once?

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Last night Steven Sinofsky and Julie Larson-Green previewed the touch user experience for Windows 8 at the D9 conference in California. As usual, Walt asked plenty of tough questions which you can watch here, but today I just want to talk about a couple of things I noticed.
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UPDATE: Branded3 introduce a live stream from the Royal couple’s hotel bedroom! Read on to get the link…

Ok so we’ve given in; after months of trying to avoid the Royal Wedding and the constant stream of news stories on what Kate’s dress might look like, and whether the cake will contain nuts (hardly breaking news…) we’ve decided to embrace the national celebration, which is quickly turning out to be the most interactive event in history.

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Plugins to sort and filter elements using jQuery aren’t exactly few and far between. However, when it came to implementing a filter on our client list page, there weren’t any that looked as smooth and complete as the Quicksand jQuery plugin. Not only does it work very well, but it’s incredibly easy to execute and manipulate.

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I was watching the MIX11 Keynote last night when I heard Joe Belfiore talk about the changes in the upcoming release of Windows Phone – which is currently code-named “Mango”. Amazingly, he promised solutions for all the top problems I have when developing for the fledgling platform.

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It doesn’t seem all that long since Microsoft released the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 9 – the company’s cutting-edge hardware accelerated browser.

Well, it actually was just a year ago, and today at MIX11 they’re releasing the first platform preview of Internet Explorer 10. This is not a web browser you can use for your every day browsing, but as web developers – it’s something we’ll certainly keep our eyes on here at Branded3.

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Marty McFly once said: “Yeah, well, history is gonna change”, and if you’re using one of the latest Gecko 2 based web browsers, such as Firefox 4, Thunderbird 3.3 or SeaMonkey 2.1, then this just might be the case for you.

Ignoring the fact I wanted to get a Back to the Future quote on the blog, it seems that the new JavaScript methods that these browsers will support; will allow developers to make changes to the URL bar without refreshing the browsers or directing the user to the new URL. It also means that you could ‘inject’ browser history to the viewer, but we are sure there’s been some thought around the security of this.

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