Any good articles on browser technology ?

Hello everyone,
Can someone recommend me some good articles on browser technology ?
I would like to know more about this in order to do better user interface design.
Thank you in advance !
Rachel

Err...
Good interface design is somewhat independent of browser technology. Or more precisely, you should be thinking about the simplest, most intuitive way for a customer to perform a task and then determining if the technology can support it, not the other way around.
I realize that in some corporate settings, you are kind of locked into a specific technology and need to come up with the best user interface that fits. Unfortunately, this does result in problems and unnecessary work, and generally, you won't be able to avoid it if technology is the primary focus.
In any case, pretty much the best user-interface "tutorial" that I know of is http://www.webpagesthatsuck.com. What they do is look at a bunch of well, really bad sites, and criticize them in such a way that you learn what not to do, and why.
I don't really think there is a similar best browser technology web site, because there are always multiple ways to code/present something and which method is best is a matter of personal preference. For example, ASP and JSP do almost functionally the same thing, and people tend to pick one or the other based on their familiarity with the syntax (Java verses VisualBasic).
Fortunately, the list of available technologies is rather short such that you can easily evaluate them and determine which is best suited to your needs. Off the top of my head, JavaScript and various Macromedia technologies (Flash, Shockwave) are pretty much the only universally accepted client-side technologies. VRML is also available, but not very commonly used.

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