HTMLGoodies Staff

As Cyber Monday rapidly approaches, many online businesses have been preparing their websites for what can be, for many, the busiest single day of the year. Although they have been actively working on their websites, many of these online retailers fail to take SEO into consideration as part of their preparations. If your online business […]

The Mashery this week introduced the Mashery API Explorer, a free interface which allows developers to discover and test out APIs from various companies, including USA TODAY, Hotwire, Klout, Yellow Pages Group and Edmunds.com. The API is the first to automatically populate API keys securely, across multiple platforms. The Director of Operations and Content Systems […]

Visa Incorporated this week announced the launch of a new Visa Developer Center designed to provide application developers with a way to easily access the tools they need to quickly create and deploy approved payment applications. They created the Visa Developer Center with the goal of making it easier and faster to create and adopt […]

An open source foundation will soon be taking over the Flex Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) from Adobe. The Flex SDK enables developers to create applications for the Flash runtime by using XML and code created in ActionScript. Adobe recently announced that it would be discontinuing development on is Flash Mobile player, and instead would be […]

Last month Google announced the launch of its Dart web programming language, which was designed to solve the problems that are present in the JavaScript language. Its key features include the ability to handle very large programs, as well as team-based development, and it is s truly object-oriented language. Google Dart also uses a virtual […]

One of Apple’s former user interface (UI) engineers is on a mission to make text that appears on the web more interactive, and he is working on an open source JavaScript API called Tangle. It will be used to create “explorable explanations” which enable web visitors to modify specific words and see the changes immediately […]

This week Google has added Closure Stylesheets, an extension to CSS which adds variables, functions, conditionals, and mixins to normal cascading style sheets (CSS), to its Closure Tools developer package, which up until now was primarily focused on JavaScript development. Closure Tools provides developers with a JavaScript code library, an optimizer, the Firebug inspector and […]

The full-screen API, which was initially discussed in the WHATWG mailing list last year, was enabled in the Firefox nightly builds stating this week. The API enables web apps to toggle from a browser display to a full-screen mode using a single page element, and will provide a boost for HTML5 games and video apps. […]

The problem that Adobe faced with its Flash Player for Mobile wasn’t that screaming fast mobile Flash content wasn’t possible, it was that porting the masses of old legacy content over to effectively function on mobile devices just wasn’t going to happen. All of the old Flash apps and movies would, if they worked at […]

This week at the 2011 Adobe MAX conference, one topic will be hot: creating and delivering immersive web experiences that are device and platform independent using HTML5. Additionally, many sessions at the conference will be focused on using HTML5 for the creation of interactive user experiences using HTML. After last week’s announcement by Adobe that […]

With all eyes on HTML5 as the mobile language of choice, especially after today’s announcement by Adobe that it would be killing its mobile Flash player, developers are eager to dive into HTML5. Which mobile HTML5 development platform is the best out of the biggies: RIM, WebOS, Windows 8 or Apple’s iOS? For many developers, […]

Adobe this week announced that it will be ceasing the development of its mobile Flash player for phones and tablets. They have come to the determination that HTML5 is a better platform for delivery of content across mobile platforms. As Adobe put it, “HTML5 is now universally supported on major mobile devices, in some cases […]