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Facebook fans have been hoping the social networking giant would live up to its promise to focus on mobile users, and this week the site answered their wishes, and announced that the newly updated Facebook Mobile is ready for business.  The new mobile site is based on XHP–a PHP extension that augments the language’s syntax […]

The web of yesteryear was a flat, static, document-laden landscape of slow-loading images and simple gif animations. Today’s web is a vibrant, visual, ever-changing world of interactive, social websites and applications, and HTML5 will make it even better.  HTML has always provided a link between web browsers and web servers–a common language that is understood […]

The Onion, the always irrevarant “news” site, released its own iPad app–fittingly, on April Fool’s Day. The app itself is no joke–it was built with an Objective-C wrapper around an HTML5 layout, and uses JavaScript and CSS for its functionality.  The app was built in-house by The Onion’s own staff, and took less than two […]

Page loading speed has become more of a critical issue recently, and even Google has included it as a factor when determining page rank for websites. This week Google added a Site Performance Tool to its Webmaster Tools to help web developers get their sites up to speed. Google’s Site Performance Tool is a tracking […]

Data and statistics from developers can be vital to understanding trends in technology and mobile usage. DeviceAnywhere recently shared its own data, giving a very interesting glimpse of where developers’ interests lie.  According to the data, in spite of what some may believe, the iPhone is not the most tested device on DeviceAnywhere’s network. Research […]

Most web developers realize that making their website load as fast as possible is vitally important to the success of that site. Most visitors expect a website to load quickly and simply won’t stick around if a website is slow to load.  Even Google now includes page loading speed when determining search engine page ranking. […]

The folks that brought you HTML5 Boilerplate have announced the release of Mobile Boilerplate version 1.0. Mobile Boilerplate enables developers to correctly display a website’s content on various mobile devices and different browsers. Mobile Boilerplate, or MBP as its developers call it, uses HTML, CSS and JavaScript in conjunction with some web server configuration “fine […]

According to the results of a recent survey taken by TNS Mobile Life, growth in mobile will be largely driven by an increased demand for video services. The survey was based on 34,000 interviews with mobile users in over 43 countries.  The results also showed that mobile devices are becoming the primary device that is […]

Using the features of CSS3 isn’t as easy as it would seem, and browser prefixing adds even more complexity to the mix. Enter CSSPrefixer, a Python-based CSS processor that takes care of the dirty work for you. CSSPrefixer takes CSS3 declarations and adds the browser prefixes that are necessary for a stylesheet. All a developer […]

The man known as the “father of JavaScript”, Brendan Eich, this week announced that he has joined the advisory board of Ajax.org, the folks that created the Cloud9 online development environment. Cloud9 is a commercial, cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) for JavaScript that utilizes HTML5 and provides support for the Python, Ruby and PHP programming […]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the preferred method of changing text color, so first we will show the (archival) method of changing text color using inline HTML color codes, then we will move on to how to achieve the same effect using CSS. Using Text Color (Hex) Codes In order to change text colors, you […]

Search engine experts usually work within the guidelines provided by the search engines to achieve results, however some practices, known in the industry as Black Hat SEO, fall outside those guidelines. Although they may still be effective, there are reasons why they shouldn’t be used, and your site may be penalized if you are caught […]