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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
Internet Explorer 7
Product Reviews Internet Explorer 7
Google urges Web adoption of vector graphics
News Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, has languished as a graphics format on the Web, but now the stars are aligned for its success, Google argues.
Tags: Software, Digital media, Google Inc., Adobe Systems Inc., Microsoft Corp., Conference, Web Browser, Graphics, SVG, Software
Google Docs gets collaborative-drawing feature
News It's not going to dethrone Adobe Illustrator, but adding drawing tools to Google's online documents is useful. Included are tools for altering colors, shapes, and object order.
Tags: Cloud computing, Google Inc., Web Browser, Tool, Vector Markup Language, SVG, Cloud computing, blog, Google Docs, word-processing
Raphael JavaScript library simplifies graphics creation
Techguide Find out how to use the Raphael JavaScript library and learn more about the various options available in it.
Tags: Web sites, Protocols and platforms, Circle, Adobe PhotoShop, Web Page, Library, Canvas, Document Object Model, Rectangle, Graphics
Firefox hopes to one-up IE with fast graphics
News Windows 7 features called Direct2D and DirectWrite will speed up Internet Explorer 9 performance. But Firefox hopes it might retool for the same benefit first.
Tags: Web browsers, Service level management, Google Inc., DirectWrite, Bas Schouten, Direct2D, Microsoft Corp., Web Browser, Graphics, Mozilla Corp.
Google tries jump-starting 3D Web with O3D
News An open-source browser plug-in gives games and other Web applications the ability to take advantage of a computer's graphics chip.
Tags: Web browsers, Plug-in, Google Inc., Web Browser, Graphics, O3D, 3D, CAD, performance, OpenGL
New beta paves way for Firefox 3.5
News Mozilla says the third beta has better JavaScript, better page-display speed, and better private browsing. The final Firefox 3.1 now will be called 3.5.
Tags: Web browsers, Google Inc., Web Browser, Google Chrome, Mozilla Corp., Beta, Mozilla Firefox, performance, Apple Safari, JavaScript
Firefox 3.5 'Web upgrade' planned for end of June
News With Firefox 3.5, Mozilla hopes to "upgrade the Web" with new features such as faster performance, built-in video, and new graphics technology.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, release candidate, built-In, Web browsers, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Macintosh, Mozilla Corp., JavaScript, Web
Adobe patches graphics plug-in
News Software publisher Adobe Systems has updated its SVG Viewer software to patch several recently discovered security holes.
Create dynamic images with SVG and XSL
Insight Delivering GIFs and JPEGs via XML is no walk in the park, especially when compared to the ease of delivering Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). Find out how to convert SVG images into an XSL template.
Will new browsers really upgrade the Web?
News The latest browsers sport many hot new features. But the avant-garde must reckon with inconsistent standards and slow adoption.
Tags: Web browsers, Web Browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Web Application, Adobe Systems Inc., HTML, Web Developer, video, Web browsers, HTML 5
The artist in you
Insight What if you can treat a browser like a drawing or painting tool, with the additional ability to save the drawing in a database? Draw and save. This is possible with Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), a 2-D Web graphics standard recommended by W3C.
W3C finalizes graphics standard
News The Web's leading standards group puts its seal of approval on a new specification for graphics technology tailored for use by cell phones and other small networked devices.
