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I’m a big Dreamweaver user because of the nice and user-friendly interface, the good intellisense and … (too much reasons to enumerate them all). I was missing only one main functionality that was better Javascript support and javascript intellisense. Since we are in the Web 2.0 age, the usage of Javascript has risen exponentially. Now Dreamweaver supports Javascript (and their own Javascript framework “Spry”) but I was missing intellisense for the famous Javascript frameworks (Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, mootools, …).

But somebody started to build Dreamweaver extensions that will fix this.
At the website http://xtnd.us/ you can find the current available DW extensions that they already build and / or will build.

For now they have the following available in béta:

• jQuery API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3 :: download the beta
• Prototype API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3:: download the really early beta
• Ext API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3 :: Download from Spket

Possible planned releases:

• Mochikit API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3
• MooTools API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3
• YUI API for Dreamweaver MX-CS3

Perhaps it’s time that the guys at Adobe start to support this by providing the Javascript framework extesions.

Ajaxian posted also an article on this topic: http://ajaxian.com/archives/dreamweaver-users-rejoice-support-for-js-libs-now-available

I love Firefox as a browser but when surfing a lot and using it long time it becomes a memory sucker (using a lot of necessary memory).
I applied the following tweaks and my memory miss usage was much lower.

• Assign Memory Cache on Firefox
• Release Memory when Firefox is minimized

Assign Memory Cache on Firefox

Firefox doesn’t use memory cache and uses system memory by default, it is good to assign a fixed memory cache to reduce the usage of memory.

1. Open the Firefox browser.
2. Key in about:config in the address bar.
3. Key in browser.cache.memory.enable in the Filter field.
4. Ensure the value of the above item is set it true, if not, double-click on it to set it to true.
5. Right-click in the browser and select New -> Integer from the pop-up.
6. Key in, browser.cache.memory.capacity, click OK.
7. You need to enter a value here and that value depends upon the RAM your computer has.
8. if you have:
   1. 256MB RAM – Enter “4096“.
   2. 512MB RAM – Enter “8192“.
9. Note: If you have 128MB or less RAM then you need to upgrade your RAM. It is not very expensive.

Important: If you want to restore to default settings then change browser.cache.memory.capacity value to -1 (minus 1).

Release Memory when Firefox is minimized

1. Open the Firefox browser.
2. Key about:config in the address bar.
3. Right-click in the browser and select New -> Boolean from the pop-up.
   
4. In the popup box enter config.trim_on_minimize. Click OK.
   
5. Select True and then click OK.
   
6. Restart Firefox.

I found these tweak on Zolved.com, if you need more tips concerning Firefox Memory Optimizing visit Zolved.com

If you ever need to build a grid-like structure on a webpage, you have to setup all the different DIV boxes and then start to lay-out and position them with CSS and make the grid cross-browser compatible. This can be quite a hassle and you can loose a lot of your precious time and then you are finished and somebody asks for an extra box. Then you would practically start all over again… You would think

The guys at Yahoo were kind enough to put together a “Grid builder” tool. With this tool you can create your grid and change it as you like with a simple mouse-clicks. When you are happy with the grid you can just save the HTML and CSS code and you are good to go. Saved you half a day of work and perhaps a lot of stress

Yahoo Grid builder: http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/

UPDATE: Somebody made an also a Grid generator. Check it out :: http://grid.mindplay.dk/