HTMLGoodies Staff

Microsoft this week announced a new competition designed to showcase the new features of HTML5. The contest, which is being called Dev Unplugged, is said to be a contest which challenges web developers to take the modern web browser to its full potential–without the use of any plug-ins.  By using HTML5 and related […]

Voxer is an iPhone “walkie-talkie” app that enables people to talk and listen at the same time, as well as leave voice messages if there is nobody on the other end. Voxer was built using Node.js, a development platform for creating dynamic networking apps.  Node.js itself is built from V8, an open source JavaScript engine […]

The next few years should be very profitable for the mobile app industry, which is expected be a global market worth over $46 billion by 2015, according to research by Forrester. Here are a few tips to help ensure that your mobile app is successful as the mobile industry skyrockets. A leading UK app developer, […]

Web developers will be excited about the latest offerings from Ajax.org. Cloud9 IDE is Ajax.org’s new cloud-based, open source platform for JavaScript that not only supports HTML5, but also Python, Ruby and PHP. The Cloud9 online development environment was designed to enable developers to create, test, analyze and debug web applications, and facilitate collaboration with […]

With all the talk about HTML5, one would assume that every mobile device on the market must support it. The reality is that although the industry is pushing for its acceptance, most mobile devices still don’t offer much in the way of support for the emerging standard. Also included in the discussion is the fact […]

Amazon is known for many things these days…books, music, videos and web services. Their latest adventure is a new service called AWS CloudFormation. The service is designed to enable developers to create their own templates for provisioning cloud resources.  Amazon states on their CloudFormation page that the service “gives developers and systems administrators an easy […]

Last week Google made some changes to its search algorithm that affected the rankings in search results for many websites. The tweak was designed to improve results for users, but it affected 12% of Google’s results, which has a huge impact on businesses who rely on search engine traffic to their websites. A Google company […]

Facebook flexed its administrative muscle this week by taking down several third party apps this week. Developers are scrambling to update their apps to comply with Facebook, but many have been unable to determine exactly why their apps were shut down to begin with.  One such app, Breakup Notifier, enabled users to keep track of […]

JetBrains this week announced the release of WebStorm 2.0, calling it an “an intelligent code-centric web IDE (Integrated Development Environment)”. The tool features a JavaScript/HTML editor, and provides Zen-coding support and DOM-based autocomplete for HTML and CSS. The project lead at JetBrains, Maxim Mossienko, stated that developers have played a large role in the development […]

Cloud computing has finally made it to the status of public awareness, largely due to Microsoft’s latest media campaign. Cloud computing and web-based technologies are opening doors that were previously unheard of for developers and end-users alike. The main concept is not particularly new, but it’s only recently that it has become possible for most […]

Today Quark announced the release of QuarkXPress 9, the latest version of its graphic design and page layout software. This release supports both print and online publishing, along with rich, interactive content for mobile devices.  The company released QuarkXPress 9 with the goal of providing professionals with more control over the execution of their designs […]

Back in the 1990’s, Tim Berners-Lee announced his vision of a “semantic web” that would help people find exactly the information, solution or product they were looking for. So why haven’t online businesses embraced the semantic web? Online retailers gained a solid 15% in sales this past holiday season, with Black Friday and Cyber Monday […]