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Macromedia's Renaissance man
Kevin Lynch claims that when it comes to interactivity, Web application design is still in the Dark Ages - but there are innovations coming through which promise to drag web development into the 21st century. Read more »
Offline YouTube and Gmail makes sense: Google
Taking all Google properties offline would make sense eventually to Google's Australia and New Zealand engineering director, Alan Noble. Read more »
Yahoo and Google attempt to improve the browser
A year after Google launched its Gears project, Yahoo has decided to make your browser better, too. Read more »
Browser faceoff: IE vs Firefox vs Opera vs Safari
Web 2.0, with its complex sites and rich Ajax applications, is an increasingly demanding platform for a browser. In this review feature, we look at how the leading browsers measure up. Read more »
Mozilla celebrates 10th birthday with a security flaw
The Mozilla Foundation is celebrating what it regards as its 10th anniversary this week. Read more »
Mozilla 1.0 unleashed
More than four years after its inception, the open-source browser is ready for the public. And its impact could go beyond browsing Read more »
Macromedia's troubles freeing Flash
The software maker faces challenges in getting developers to support Central, a year-old plan to free its Flash format from dependence on a browser. Read more »
Mozilla puts bounty on bugs
A string of high-profile flaws in browser software prompted the Mozilla Foundation to announce on Monday that it would offer US$500 for every serious bug found by security researchers. Read more »
BrowserPlus escapes Yahoo walled garden
Yahoo has improved its BrowserPlus technology for more sophisticated Web applications and now lets other Web sites besides its own use it, the company said. Read more »
KDE developers focus on accessibility
Developers behind the next version of KDE, an open-source Linux desktop environment, are trying to make their software more accessible to people with disabilities, a conference has heard. Accessibility is a major theme at the KDE Community World Summit, currently taking place in Ludwigsburg, Germany. On 22 and 23 August the summit held a Unix Accessibility Forum, bringing together developers and people with disabilities. Read more »
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Locate errors in your JavaScript code
When you debug JavaScript, you don't have the luxury of the powerful tools available in other development environments. Fortunately, you can fall back on some alternative techniques to locate problems in your code. Read more »
Extend ASP.NET with HTTP modules
While HTTP modules have been a part of ASP.NET since its inception, I still encounter developers with no idea of their existence or usage. HTTP modules allow you to process incoming requests and outgoing responses to and from an ASP.NET application. Read more »
Tie JavaScript events to ASP.NET objects
ASP.NET places many powerful tools in the hands of the Web developer, but that doesn't make existing methods obsolete. This is especially true with client-side JavaScript--as long as you follow certain rules. Read more »
Draw and annotate in your browser using SVG
SVG is a language for describing 2-D graphics in XML, and it lets you treat a browser like a drawing or painting tool. Although not supported by current browsers, SVG functionality is available via free plug-ins. This tutorial puts SVG through its paces. Read more »
A developer's look at IE7
With an overwhelming share of the browser market, Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) cannot be ignored. This candidate release gives you the opportunity to be proactive and identify any problems that may arise with your applications as viewed in the new browser. Read more »
Form validation is vastly improved in ASP.NET
All Web development efforts require form validation, but Active Server Page technology hasn't made it easy. Fortunately, ASP.NET addresses the need with validation controls. Read more »
Optimising performance with sessions in PHP
A dynamic Web site provides both a money-saving solution and the ability to create interesting, useful Web environments. So where's the trade-off? It's in performance. Read more »
Creating cross-platform browser event handlers
Handling browser events in a cross-platform environment requires careful design. See how browser events are handled in HTML and JavaScript. Read more »
Develop a VoiceXML solution using BeVocal
VoiceXML (VXML) is a markup language like HTML. The difference is that a phone browser rather than a Web browser renders VXML. Get started with this article. Read more »
Apples vs apples: Chrome takes on beta browsers
The internet has exploded in a single, joyous, mass-hallucination called Chrome. Apparently it's the fastest browser ever and will solve a myriad of problems from slowness within Google Spreadsheet to possibly creating an acceptable carbon trading scheme. Read more »
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Crying, mooning and leaving
-- In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »
Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha
-- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »
The Best of Ballmer
-- In this week's Roundup we cover Steve Ballmer's talk at the Microsoft's Power to Developers event in Sydney, Saleforce's annual Dreamforce conference and more. Read more »
Spry Game
-- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »
64 bit me
-- If these 64-bit systems are going to use wrappers and other tricks to maintain compatibility with vendors unwilling to support the platform, is there any point to having it? Read more »
Adobe MAX conference: Sneak Peaks, Sound Treats
-- To close MAX 2006 Adobe gave delegates at the conference a sneak peek at some upcoming technologies and products. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.