HTMLGoodies Staff

It’s the time for new year’s resolutions and predictions, and this time Google is poised to take over the world. Well, not the world, really, but the technology world anyway, with the Google Chrome OS. To preface this prediction, keep in mind that the last two years of growth for the search engine giant have […]

20 years after the web was created, almost 2 billion people are online throughout the world, and the internet is vital to international trade, communications and politics. That said, the technology that the web is built upon has barely changed–until HTML5 made the scene. In a long-awaited update to the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) specification, […]

At the end of 2010, it’s a great time to be a mobile app developer. Even CNN ran an article about the shortage of mobile apps in both the large online storefronts and smaller up and coming web app stores. That’s great for mobile developers. With over 61 million smartphones on the market, the mobile […]

In the rush to get their videos on the web so they can be competitive, many businesses have created some really great examples of what not to do. Let’s look at a few such videos and show you what can be done to improve them. Many businesses don’t honestly recognize that they are not in […]

2010 was good for web developers, with consumer apps continuing to expand and new web app shops opening right up through December. In this article we’ll look at 10 things that 2011 will hold for the world of web development. All media form factors need to be addressed by developers. Mobile, tablet and desktop PCs […]

Apple recently announced the release of its free online iAd Producer tool, which enables advertisers to create content for iPads, iPhone and iPods using HTML5. The tool is free for members of Apple’s Developer Program, which is also provided to developers at no cost. The iAd Producer was created to allow non-techies to create ads […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week made some recommendations concerning mobile development, including understanding a mobile device’s limitations, and optimization of response time, among other key factors in its “Mobile Web Application Best Practices” report. The report, which is available for viewing here, has been in development since 2008, and was finally published […]

HTML5’s canvas element has gotten a lot of press in the last year, and the folks who created Easel JS hope to simplify its use for Flash Developers. The open source framework is currently in alpha release stages from the developers at gskinner.com. The current release of Easel JS features a hierarchical display list, core […]

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) this week released a set of guidelines for mobile app developers to have in mind while creating Web-standards based mobile apps. They also released a set of easy-to-print virtual cards which summarize their suggestions for mobile etiquette. Their suggestions include minimizing network traffic, keeping users in mind, optimizing app […]

Google’s WebGL 3D graphics API for JavaScript provides hardware-accelerated graphics without more software, and has moved into the beta phase of the latest version of its software. WebGL, based on the OpenGL ES 2.0 API for embedded, accelerated 3D graphics, is the first to bring hardware-accelerated 3D graphics to the browser without adding more software, […]

Adobe announced today that its Flash Media Server is now available via a pay-as-you-go option through Amazon Web Services cloud services. Flash Media Server 4 enables developers to stream videos that can be hosted on Adobe Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud service. By using Amazon’s cloud services, developers don’t have to worry about installation and […]

Over the last year, Google returned to prominence, continued to grow its online advertising venture, and proved just how much of a force it is internationally. After being hacked by factions of the Chinese government, and releasing the failed Nexus One, Google continued to spread its wings in the virtual world. Search was still the […]