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This week Appcelerator, a mobile development framework company, announced that has received a $15 million round of funding from companies including Red Hat, Translink and Mayfield for the development of its Titanium IDE. HTML5 web app development–which will be added to the IDE–will be the main focus of the funding. Several weeks ago Appcelerator acquired […]

This week it was announced that Microsoft will be including support for LocalDB in the .NET Framework 4. LocalDB is the free version of SQL Server “Denali” that provides developers with access to the majority of the server’s API, without the overhead that the management aspects of the API brings along. Additionally, Update 4.0.2 was […]

This week Michael Bebenita, a developer for Mozilla, announced the release of a JavaScript-based H.264 decoder that is designed to run natively in web browsers. The creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich, demonstrated the decoder, which is being called Broadway, at the recent OOPSLA conference. Broadway is able to display video at 30 frames per second […]

Adobe came up with the concept of CSS Regions to allow designers to create more complex layouts which include the capacity for content flow–in other words, magazine-style layouts with content that is displayed in more than one region, with one section flowing automatically into the next. It was announced this week that the Chrome 15 […]

As a markup language that works across all of the current web browsers, with support for many of the native capabilities of mobile devices, HTML5 can easily be called a universal application platform. Such a platform can be a boost to a developer’s productivity, and can provide competitive advantages as well as additional functionality and […]

written by David Catuhe Last week in our tutorial on How To Create a Visual Library of Images in HTML5 Canvas, we showed you the HTML5 code from the project, and discussed the data gathering process. This week we will tell you about cards loading and display, as well as how cache is handled in […]

The current CTO of Opera Software, Haakon Wium Lie, also wears another hat–that of one of the founders of the web page formatting standard known as cascading style sheets (CSS). Lie took the time to answer some questions about CSS, and where he thinks it is headed. When asked why a new method of displaying […]

Mobile internet users accounted for 6.8% of all website visits in the United States during the month of August, and two thirds of that traffic was from internet-capable phones, with the rest attributed to tablets. Worldwide, mobile traffic made up three percent of all website traffic in 2010, but is predicted to reach 15% by […]

written by David Catuhe Last week in our tutorial on How To Create a Visual Library of Images in HTML5 Canvas, we provided you with an overview of an application that will allow us to display a Magic the Gathering cards collection, and discussed the tools we will use. This week we will show you […]

This week SyCara, a developer of search engine optimization (SEO) tools, announced a new SEO service called SEO Health Reports, which provides advanced, automated analysis and reporting designed to improve a website’s SEO plan. SyCara;s COO, Jen Dorre, discussed the new service, stating that “The SEO Health Reports provide huge advantages to SEO agencies and […]

Many publications and websites have worked hard to show off the potential functionality of HTML5 and JavaScript, and CSS3 has been shown to have some impressive capabilities itself. The folks at eCSSExpert have shown that they can create logos strictly using CSS3 and HTML–and no tables. Famous logos (and famous people) that have been converted […]

The head of Google’s Web spam team, Matt Cutts, made it official this week: as far as Google is concerned, search engine optimization (SEO) tactics are not considered to be spam. Although most web developers were already aware of this fact, many who are not in the industry were not of that opinion. Cutts addresses […]