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More than meets the eye in Microsoft plan
A little-known Microsoft project promises to bring advanced graphics to a broad range of devices and set up a potential showdown with Adobe Systems. Read more »
AOL throws in Netscape towel
AOL is formally pulling the plug on its historic Web browser and is advising its users to adopt AOL spinoff Mozilla Foundation's Firefox instead. Read more »
Firefox 3 gives browser security, Web app makeover
Mozilla has released a new beta version of Firefox 3, with the popular open source Web browser featuring significant new features that according to its makers will improve security, ease of use and the rendering of Web pages. Read more »
Microsoft discloses some IE 7 plans
Microsoft finally told Web developers what they've wanted to hear for years, promising support for graphics and style sheet standards. Read more »
Code to exploit Windows graphics flaw now public
A sample program hit the Internet on Wednesday, showing by example how malicious coders could compromise Windows computers by using a flaw in the handling of a widespread graphics format by Microsoft's software. Read more »
Major graphics flaw threatens Windows PCs
Microsoft published on Tuesday a patch for a major security flaw in its software's handling of the JPEG graphics format and urged customers to use a new tool to locate the many applications that are vulnerable. Read more »
GNOME 2.14 released
GNOME developers released on Thursday version 2.14 of the desktop environment for Linux and Unix, including a new application suite aimed at making it easier to use the open-source desktop in enterprises. 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 »
Adobe sees its future on the Web
Chief Executive Bruce Chizen places his bets on new software called Apollo and says a hosted version of Photoshop is in the cards. Read more »
Microsoft admits IE7 will fail standards test
Microsoft's new Internet Explorer 7 browser won't pass a stringent standards test that rivals have embraced. Read more »
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Create graphics applications with Java 3D
The Java 3D API allows you to develop 3D graphics applications that have a high degree of visual realism. Read more »
13 Design rules that every Web site designer should know about
If you regard yourself as a professional Web site designer, then you need to be aware of, and then follow, these 13 design rules for building effective Web sites. Read more »
An introduction to Flash Remoting MX
Flash Remoting MX is Macromedia's technology that provides a connection between Macromedia Flash and leading application servers. Read more in this introduction from Builder.com Read more »
50 significant moments from internet history
We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »
Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test
Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »
Loading XML into Gecko-based browsers
Most Web developers think of Microsoft Internet Explorer and either MSXML2 or MSXML3 when asked about client-side XML. But there is an alternative to MSXML, namely Gecko. Read more »
The Kiwi behind Firefox
Ben Goodger is the lead engineer for the Firefox browser. He talks about Firefox's history, and how he sees it competing with Longhorn. Read more »
Get started with Web vector graphics
At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Dmitry Baranovskiy presented "Web Vector Graphics", giving an overview of the models available for creating vector graphics on the Web and tools to make them render correctly in all browsers. Read more »
Mozilla chairman unfazed by Google Chrome
Things just got a lot more complicated for Mitchell Baker, the Mozilla Foundation's chairman and "chief lizard wrangler." Read more »
Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?
The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »
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Google faces down Apple
-- What's the point in following Apple's rules on the iPhone SDK if other developers will just flaunt them? We check the answer out and cover the other issues from the week: OLPC, IE, Ballmer and the Internet in space. Read more »
Salesforce.com flexes its on-demand platform.
-- Salesforce.com has included Adobe Flex functionality to it's Apex platform. The move means that developers using salesforce.com's Apex platform can now deploy rich Internet applications using the Flex toolkit. Read more »
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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.