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After hearing resentment from developers concerning the Facebook Platform and API this week, especially after two such developers posted their thoughts about Facebook deleting its python-sdk repository without any advance warning to developers, Facebook has been attempting to calm the exhausted and irritated nerves of developers. Jeff Schnitzer, one of the developers who wrote about […]

For app developers who are creating web apps, the concept of a single-page app may sound too simple, but many developers are using single-page web apps to replicate the experience that users have with native apps when they are using mobile devices. One of the problems faced by such developers, and users of their web […]

written by Jennifer Marsman There’s no question, HTML5 is a hot topic for developers. If you need a crash course to quickly understand the fundamentals of HTML5’s functionality, you’re in the right place. In this tutorial, I’ll cover the new semantic markup, canvas for drawing and animation, audio and video support, and how to use […]

Open source web development tools have become even more popular lately, because they can be customized to suit a developer’s specific needs for a given web project. The license for open source software generally allows developers to use the software code for the creation of new software, which can then be released as a separate […]

Unlike traditional search engine queries which provide only one type of result, mobile search provides different results and ways of presenting those results by determining the type of device, such as normal phone, smartphone or tablet, that the request originated from. Recently Google announced a new crawler specifically designed for smartphones, which would work separately […]

While many things have stayed the same for web development, according to research from the HTTP Archive, a site that routinely scans the most popular web destinations, the average size of a web page, in kilobytes (KB), has increased by 30% in the last year, and now averages 965 KB. The increase isn’t due to […]

Web design is not a new artform, but the web of today is far from the web that your father may have surfed and designed–in fact, the web as we know it has radically changed in the last 5 years. SEO has gained significant importance, and the use of CSS has gone far beyond just […]

written by Brandon Satrom HTML5 is here, and the Web will never be the same. You’ve no doubt heard that before, or something like it. I’d guess that when you did, you got excited, rolled your eyes, or mouthed the word “why?” and furrowed your brow a bit. Perhaps your reaction was a mix of […]

This week JetBrains announced the release of WebStorm 3.0, a JavaScript integrated development environment (IDE) that can be used to write and edit JavaScript code for web pages and web apps. This release includes support for CoffeeScript, integration with JSLint, and support for Node.JS. The project lead for WebStorm, Alexey Gopachenko, discussed the release, stating […]

appMobi this week announced the release of a software development kit (SDK) for its directCanvas technology. Rendering acceleration, multiSound multichannel sound playback and directBox2D physics acceleration are among the features cited as opening the world of mobile game development to HTML5 developers. The CEO of TweenSoft, Henrik Dalsgaard, discussed the release and how it will […]

Adobe has seen the writing on the wall for its Flash Player since Apple rejected the use of the proprietary technology when the iPhone was released. The company has been embracing HTML5 largely because it hasn’t had a choice, and dropped development of its mobile Flash player while releasing Adobe Edge, which uses HTML5, JavaScript […]

While the native vs. JavaScript app battle continues to heat up, many developers are pushing the belief that only Native code and C++ will do the job. Others are sure that the recent increases in JavaScript speed will push the scripting language to just where it is needed–and the debate will be over. One person […]