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The future application economy may be not only filled with application programming interfaces (APIs) which enable outside developers to create apps which link to specific core company services–such APIs may become a requirement. APIs allow companies to accelerate the integration of partners while extending a company’s outward reach to new users. A good example of […]

The Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 web browser is finally being officially retired by Microsoft, at a time when the US market share of IE6 is less than one percent. Along with web developers across the world, Microsoft is already starting to celebrate the death of the archaic web browser. Roger Capriotti, the director of Internet […]

This week Telex, a cloud contact center solutions provider, announced the release of its HTML5-based Call Center Agent software for Mac OS Contact Centers. The software makes use of HTML5’s Websocket component which provides a bi-directional, full-duplex communication channel using a single TCP socket. The Chief Architect at Telax, Vladimir Pereira, discussed the release, stating […]

Oracle this week announced the release of the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE), version 7.1. The NetBeans IDE is free, and is available for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Linux, other Linux distributions, Mac and Windows platforms, and allows developers to quickly create Java, C, C++ and PHP apps. The NetBeans IDE can be used to create […]

written by David Rousset HTML5 applications are obviously written using JavaScript. But compared to other kinds of development environments (like native ones), JavaScript historically suffers from an important limitation: all of its execution processe remain inside a unique thread. This could be pretty annoying with today’s multi-core processors like the i5/i7 containing up to 8 […]

This week Tendril announced a new website devoted to helping developers create the next smart grid “killer app” to accelerate the growth and demand for smart grid applications. Called the Tendril Connect Application Developer website, Tendril designed the site to enable developers to build energy management applications. Smart grid apps are able to work along […]

With Adobe’s Flash no longer the defacto tool used to create web-based animations and movies, other tools have been showing up to take its place. This week a new such tool, the Scrollorama jQuery plugin, was announced, and it allows developers to use CSS and jQuery to animate almost any HTML element on a page. […]

A new demonstration of the versatility of modern web technologies just made a strong appearance through the interactive iPhone 4 demo, which was created using CSS3, JavaScript and HTML5–and no images. The development and design of the demo are the brainchild of Ukrainian web developer Vasiliy Zubach. The demonstration renders the features of the device […]

This week it was announced that the upcoming release of PhoneGap 1.3, henceforth to be known as Apache Cordova, will include full support for Windows Phone 7. The name change will be postponed until release 1.4, but many new features are set to be announced for this release. Along with bug fixes and new tools, […]

Firefox is going to make the next year very exciting for web developers, because when they release Firefox 10 early in the year, it will ship with HTML and CSS inspector functionality which assists web developers with code inspection and debugging. Other new tools will include a 3-D page inspector and a code editor that […]

By taking advantage of the computer’s graphics processing unit (GPU), Google’s Chromium web browser is able to accelerate vector-based SVG graphics along with CSS filters. This new ability was discovered during a nightly build of Chromium. SVG and CSS acceleration is supported by the Chromium browser on Windows, Max, Linux and Chrome OS. Other potential […]

written by Jennifer Marsman Develop with HTML5 While Retaining Support for Older Browsers We’ve discussed a lot of cool new functionality in HTML5, including the new semantic elements, the canvas tag for drawing, and the audio and video support. You may think that this stuff is really cool, but you can’t possibly adopt HTML5 when […]