HTMLGoodies Staff

Google Webmaster Tools added some functionality that may be of interest to search engine optimization (SEO) specialists and web developers. A new tab is available that enables website owners to access additional details from search query data. The new Top Pages feature is of particular interest in regard to SEO, as it enables users to […]

Open source Web development tools have come a long way. The open source community offers a huge array of applications that are useful to Web developers and designers. In many cases, these open source tools are even more widely used than their closed source counterparts. And some open source Web tools don’t even have any […]

Magnolia this week announced the release of its CMS 4.4 open source content management system (CMS). This release includes new tools for quickly developing multilingual, enterprise websites. Additionally, new features include collaboration controls for coordinating editing functions, source language exporting and multi-step forms which allows visitors to move forward and backward in a form without […]

The annual Water & Stone Open Source Market Share Report has just come out, and it shows that although the open source CMS market is shifting, the top three in the market are still strong. Joomla!, WordPress and Drupal are still the top three, but Drupal’s share of the market has dropped significantly. Since last […]

The sprite.js JavaScript framework enables developers to create impressive animations and games using sprites. The framework was created with the goal of having a common JavaScript framework for both desktop and mobile web browsers. The sprite.js framework has been tested with the Chrome, Firefox and Opera web browsers, as well as an Android emulator. It […]

The annual Zeitgeist Report from Google looks at how the world searched the internet over the past year. This year’s report visualizes that data using a combination of HTML5 and JavaScript. By using the year’s popular search terms, along with other resources such as Google Insights for Search and Google Trends, Google is able to […]

The grand opening of Google’s Chrome Web Store this week came with a slew of new web apps that utilize HTML5 and JavaScript to create user experiences that make those users wonder if they’re using a desktop application. Is the iPad the standardizing concept behind these new apps? Never mind that Google is promoting these […]

Foursquare today released a new version of its API, and made it available for developers to download and try out. The new release, called APIv2 by Foursquare, was created with a focus on speed, consistency and clarity. Changes include dropping the API’s previous support for XML, which was said to be done to make the […]

We’ve been looking at Firefox extensions for web developers, and we last looked at ColorZilla, a color selector extension. This time we’re going to check out Pixl Grabber, a go-to tool for making screenshots of content within the browser viewport. Screenshots serve two important purposes: As a way for the development team, client, or visitors […]

You may have heard that Google this week announced their upcoming operating system, the Chrome OS. The confusion is about why they are announcing it now, when it is still in a pre-beta stage, if you can even call it that. Many developers were relieved to hear about the Chrome OS, however many more were […]

The latest tests with the Google Chrome web browser show that it features a faster JavaScript engine, which is increasingly important for running today’s complex web-based apps. A faster JavaScript engine results in faster-loading pages, more powerful apps and increased pressure on the other browser makers. The JavaScript engine, named V8, is currently being upgraded […]

We last looked at the Pixel Perfect extension for Firefox. This time we’re going to look at ColorZilla, a Firefox extension that functions as a color selector with features that mimic those of Photoshop and other image editors! The ColorZilla extension for Firefox is a color selector with features that mimic those of Photoshop and […]