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Openness unlocking Web's power
Insight perspective Accessibility and open standards have helped build the Web and remain central to its development, says Opera executive.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Web services, Standards, Open source, Apple Inc., Patent, Web Browser, Video, Standards
Will 2008 prove the year the Web grew up?
Insight perspective After the turbulence of the browser wars and the dotcom crash, the emergence this year of open development standards hints at a new-found maturity, argues Opera exec.
Tags: Protocols and platforms, Web sites, Web 2.0, Web Browser, Document Object Model, W3C, CSS, HTML 4, HTML 5 Specification, JavaScript
Low business demand for rich Web apps
News Silverlight and Air may give developers the platform to build more visually-stunning apps, but businesses do not require such rich Web apps yet.
Tags: Web services, Web browsers, Software engineering/development, Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Silverlight, Developer, software company, Web Application, ISV, brand
Frustrated by a coworker's use of old-school methods?
Techguide What do you do when a veteran developer isn't open-minded about the benefits of modern programming techniques?
Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development, Business applications, IBM Corp., Fear, Tool, object-oriented, Authoring, career, IDE
Garbage HTML: Five theories why developers write it
Techguide Garbage HTML appears to be alive and well. Is the situation hopeless?
Tags: Web 2.0, Authoring, Software engineering/development, Web sites, Tool, Developer, CSS, font, Ctrl, Authoring
Simple usability testing is easy with Optimal Workshop's tools
Techguide Check out Optimal Workshop's Chalkmark and Treejack--these easy-to-use tools may be especially attractive if your development shop is on a limited budget.
Tags: Authoring, Software engineering/development, Usability, E-mail Address, Tool, Authoring, Optimal Workshop, Treejack, Chalkmark, Microsoft Developer Network
Hands on with Mono 2.2
Techguide If you are writing an application designed to work on many platforms, Mono is still an alternative but it may not be a simple matter of "recompile and deploy" in many cases.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Microsoft Corp., C, system tray, C#, Authoring, Microsoft .NET, Microsoft Visual Studio, Mono
Meeting user demands for real-time data may set you apart
Techguide When systems give users the expectation of real-time data but don't deliver it, users may get more frustrated, angry and confused than they would with a non real-time system.
Tags: Software engineering/development, Authoring, Search Engine, competitive advantage, Authoring, Microsoft Developer Network, Search Result, bank, industry, Web
Mozilla shifts code development to the cloud
News Mozilla's Developer Tools Lab has released its first prototype--a Web-based, collaborative code-editing framework called Bespin.
Tags: Browser, Web browsers, Authoring, Software engineering/development, Ubiquity, Web Browser, Open Source, Tool, Developer, standards compliance
Sony Pictures Digital Vegas+DVD (Vegas 4.0)
Product Reviews Sony Pictures Digital Vegas+DVD (Vegas 4.0)
Microsoft defends Outlook HTML decision
News E-mail Standards Project group urges Twitter users to pressure Microsoft to support better HTML formatting in Outlook as software vendor stands by its decision.
Tags: Microsoft Outlook, E-mail servers, Web Page, e-Mail Message, e-mail, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Outlook, Web, Microsoft Word, HTML
Five HTML oddities that you may not know
Techguide Browsers are more compliant than Web developers think--find out why, as well as what other nuggets of insights from an industry observer's experience with HTML 5.
Tags: Web sites, Web 2.0, Protocols and platforms, Specification, Web Browser, HTML 4, XHTML, DOCTYPE, compliance, Microsoft Internet Explorer
HP plans reign of ink from the cloud
Insight newsmaker The company wants to move consumer printing away from PCs and onto the Web--shedding drivers along the way, says HP's CTO of consumer printing.
Tags: Consumer Technology, Peripherals, Cloud computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Plug-in, Inkjet Printer, Web Service, computer, Cloud computing, Server
Standards body OKs disabled accessibility guidelines
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Apple picks up DVD tool developer
News Apple Computer is buying privately held DVD software maker Spruce Technologies, the Mac maker confirmed Monday.
