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I stumbled upon this article titled 10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know. The content’s as you would expect it to be. Unfortunately the benefit of using a couple of the tags isn’t clear, but I do like the information on OPTGROUP and ACRONYM. Although do not that the indicated code for OPTGROUP is incorrect. OPTGROUP tags should actually wrap around the options that go within that group:

<select name="os"> <option>Select Your OS</option>
  <optgroup label="Windows">
    <option value="Vista">Vista</option>
    <option value="XP">XP</option>
  </optgroup>
  <optgroup label="Mac">
    <option value="Leopard">Leopard</option>
    <option value="Tiger">Tiger</option>
  </optgroup>
</select>

I would like to think that the LABEL and FIELDSET tags are being used regularly, but perhaps they aren’t. As for WBR, I’d never heard of that one, but it’s quite interesting.

In this, the somewhat delayed Part 6 of my series on the jQuery JavaScript framework, I talk about performing Ajax requests using jQuery. You may want to read the previous five parts before getting into this one:

1. Incorporating jQuery into an HTML page
2. Selecting page elements
3. Adding event handlers
4. Applying effects
5. Manipulating elements

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An article I wrote entitled Using jQuery to Customize Your Adobe AIR Application has just been published online at Peachpit Press’s Web site.. You can read it at http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1326510. The article shows a handful of practical ways jQuery can be used in an Adobe AIR application, although some of the information covered is much more about jQuery than it is about Adobe AIR (i.e., much of the content is applicable to Web development, too).