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24 ways is back for 2007 with new tips, tricks, and tutorials.

Here are my favorite articles from the new 24 ways

Transparent PNGs in Internet Explorer 6

Dealing with support for transparent PNGs in IE 6

Get To Grips with Slippy Maps

Creating interactive, draggable maps using the Mapstraction library

Capturing Caps Lock

Detecting Caps Lock in a web app

10 Ways To Get Design Approval

10 tips for getting approval of a design

Unobtrusively Mapping Microformats with jQuery

Using jQuery to extract data from Microformats

CSS for Accessibility

CSS techniques that help make your site accessible to as many users as possible

Christmas Is In The AIR

Introduction to Adobe AIR and using standard web technologies to build a desktop application

A List Apart’s article “A Preview of HTML 5” gives an overview of the current status of HTML5. One of the cool things about HTML5 is that it would introduce new elements that would provide semantic alternatives to using the div element for page layout.

HTML 5 introduces a whole set of new elements that make it much easier to structure pages. Most HTML 4 pages include a variety of common structures, such as headers, footers and columns and today, it is fairly common to mark them up using div elements, giving each a descriptive id or class.

The use of div elements is largely because current versions of HTML 4 lack the necessary semantics for describing these parts more specifically. HTML 5 addresses this issue by introducing new elements for representing each of these different sections.

Definr.com is a pretty cool dictionary site. It’s tagline is “incredibly fast dictionary” and it is fast. Definr.com is only one page but it does everything a dictionary should do and does it well in that page.