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Readability is known for converting cumbersome web pages into a readable format, using a web browser extension. Like many other companies that are looking toward the future, this week they announced that they have relaunched their iOS services as an HTML5 application.  Although the company made the move to HTML5 as a result of Apple’s […]

Social media will be used by nearly 70 percent of small businesses in the next 12 months according to research done by Techaisle. 81 percent of those polled also have a company website–which continues to be a useful element of doing business online. The question remains–is it a wise investment for smaller businesses to delve […]

Adobe this week proposed a CSS-based web layout standard to the W3C, which is responsible for standardizing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Adobe calls their technology CSS Regions. Arno Gourdol, director of engineering for runtime foundation at Adobe, stated that the proposal “is intended to support sophisticated, magazine-style layouts using CSS.” Magazine style layouts are a […]

This week Mozilla announced that it is offering an Open Web Application platform to web app developers. Along with a demo showcase, they are providing documentation and SDKs for creating apps using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript. Apps created using these technologies are browser and OS agnostic–that is, they work across all platforms on all modern […]

Google put its new “Farmer” search engine algorithm into effect in late February, affecting over 11 percent of all Google search queries in the US. Although it improved query results for end users, it negatively affected many online businesses that had been reusing content–including product descriptions.  Google implemented the changes in order to weed out […]

Twitter’s GeoAPI debuted when Twitter bought Mixer Labs in 2009, and developers have been using it ever since. That ends this month, as the social media company has announced that they will no longer allow access to the API for outside developers. Tweets, Flickr photos and even the iPhone SDK were all supported via the […]

Although mobile security is already a serious topic for developers, Google chimed in today after discovering over 60 apps that contained malicious software which affected devices running Android 2.2.2 and earlier.  After removing the apps, Google stated that they plan to incorporate additional security measures in their app market. Security precautions include isolating “activities” and […]

Those web developers who loathe having to develop to the lowest common denominator will be happy to hear that Microsoft just announced a new website called Deathwatch. The site is designed to facilitate the death of Internet Explorer 6, or at least get its use down below 1 percent of users worldwide. Microsoft has been […]

Mozilla this week announced the debut of its ”Web o’ Wonders” websute which features demonstrations that showcase the features of Firefox 4. The website includes demos of apps which utilize HTML5 and CSS3, emerging standards which will be supported in Firefox 4. The release of a demo website for an upcoming browser is […]

The online media has rallied on and on about the new semantic tags, advanced animations, server-side fonts and all the other new features that HTML5 and CSS3 will provide. What is missing from the equation is the next major development in web design–page layout.  In spite of advancements in developer software, even the newer tools […]

SitePoint this week announced the debut of SitePoint Market. SitePoint Market is similar to Craigslist, and was designed to be a marketplace for web developers and designers to source work, outsource web projects and buy and sell developer products. Although SitePoint has operated the SitePoint Marketplace as a part of its main site, the company […]

As websites scramble to understand just what the algorithm changes that Google recently implemented mean for them, and what to do to regain their ranking losses, one thing is certain. Google says the time for voodoo and SEO black hat tricks is over. Play fair or don’t play at all.  The changes are the result […]