As many of you know, I left CNET back in November of 2007 to pursue my own startup (www.iminta.com). While getting that off the ground CNET continued to contract me to maintain the Clientside public libraries and to continue blogging here. I also worked on a few internal projects as I was needed. This was a tremendous help as it afforded me the time to do things like launch Iminta.com and finish the MooTools book. Considering that CNET was the principal investor in my first startup (way back in 1999), in one way or another, CNET employed me for nearly a decade, and I can’t thank them enough.

But all good things must come to an end, and my contracting work for them is now officially over. Consequently, Clientside.CNET.com is no more. I started thinking about domain names a week or three ago and eventually settled on Clientcide – as in death to the browsers! This was really a reflection of what I and other developers of JavaScript frameworks have been saying for a while: the frameworks aren’t competing with each other – it’s the browsers we’re at war with.

Now that I’m not speaking for a large public company here, I felt free to play around with the look-and-feel and my early designs were all things like browser icons with blood splattered across them, Kill Bill style. But these ultimately felt too derivative and then I stumbled upon the idea of just making the header stupid fun. I must say, I’m enamoured with the new look. We’ll see if I feel that way after a few months of it. What do you think?

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