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Mobile computing has changed things for web developers. No longer can they use huge graphics or excessive scripts and they must use plugins sparingly, if at all. Google now counts page loading speed when it determines page rank for search engine results. Page loading times can be decreased by using the one of the many […]

Web developers often wish it was someone else’s job to maintain the CSS files associated with a website, as they can get large and tedious to follow. The Compass CSS framework can simplify things, making it easier to create and maintain the CSS for a website. The open source Compass CSS framework provides a set […]

VP of Microsoft Julie Larson-Green caused quite a stir with a simple comment at the D9 conference last week. She was pointing to a new app in a preview of the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, and stated that “this application is written with our new developer platform, which is based on HTML5 and JavaScript.” […]

Appcelerator this week announced Titanium Studio, its integrated development environment that is based on the Eclipse IDE, which was acquired by Appcelerator in January. Titanium Studio is unique in that it enables developers to create applications for desktop, mobile and web platforms. Previously Appcelerator’s tools have been focused on web and mobile application development. By […]

With the popularity of iPhones, iPads, Android devices, Blackberry phones and other non-traditional methods of accessing the web, many businesses have been creating applications for these devices so they can engage their customer base. Now, however, the use of HTML5 is allowing those businesses to use the same medium to reach both desktop and mobile […]

This week NuSphere released its PhpED 6.0 integrated development environment (IDE) with support for JavaScript Intellisense, CSS3 and HTML5. PhpED 6.0 enables developers to create web and mobile websites and applications in a simple, efficient development environment. NuSphere’s CTO, Dmitri Dmitrienko, commented about the release, stating that “With 6.0, we focused on enhancing our JavaScript […]

Since its inception as Netscape’s LiveScript years ago, JavaScript has evolved into a full-fledged, highly capable programming language. James Duncan, creator of the Node.js platform, has some thoughts about the evolution and potential of JavaScript. According to Duncan, the big changes in the way developers looked at JavaScript came when Google Maps was launched. It […]

Google has their hand in so many pies that it’s hard to keep up with the latest wonders that they either create or contribute to. This week Google announced a new markup option called Authorship, and it has serious ramifications for SEO and potential opportunities for those who are writers. The Authorship tag works by […]

Microsoft has been busy updating the SEO tools in Bing Webmaster Tools. New features include the ability to control how fast the Bing web crawler indexes a website at different times of the day. This allows the crawler to be slowed down during peak traffic hours to avoid stressing the web server that the site […]

Many developers have considered JavaScript to be a second-rate programming language, good for stitching together HTML content, but not for serious application development. That may have been the case a few years ago, but with the introduction of HTML5 and prevalence of JavaScript frameworks, JavaScript should be considered an essential skill for all developers. In […]

The announcement from the W3C this week that CSS 2.1 is now officially the web standard may surprise some developers. Cascading Style Sheets 3 (CSS3) is currently a hot topic on this site and others, so much so that one may get the impression that it is already the web standard that is used for […]

This week appMobi introduced DirectCanvas, an enhancement to its current mobile app platform which will speed up graphic rendering as much as 500 percent using HTML5’s canvas element. Developers have often wondered if HTML5 was up to the challenge of mobile app development due to limitations in speed. CTO of appMobi, Sam Abadir, discussed the […]