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Cross browser testing, through which you compare a website’s look and performance among different browser versions and platforms, is an important and often frustrating task. Moreover, such testing helps you to determine whether your website code (HTML, CSS, Javascript, JQuery, etc.) is backwards compatible. It should be enough to write standards-compliant, validating code (as set […]

Web developers are a resourceful group, and with so many open source tools available, they have a lot to work with. This article discusses various free resources ranging from Firefox extensions to educational software. One such tool–Kompozer–allows developers to edit Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) using an easy-to-use CSS editor that features some top notch WYSIWYG […]

The Moodle community formally released the Moodle 2.0 Learning Management System (LMS) after two years of development. Moodle is an electronic learning platform that is used by over a million teachers, with more than 38 million users worldwide. The latest release, which was officially launched last week, adds many new capabilities, along with improvements to […]

Imran Nazar, a 26-year-old developer from the UK has created a project that’s creating quite a stir. His project, which is named jsGB, enables a web browser to emulate Nintendo’s Game Boy handheld game console using HTML5 and JavaScript. Nazar blogged about his project in a blog on Mozilla’s gaming site, stating that “New JavaScript […]

Over 15,000 developers are creating apps for Microsoft Windows Phone 7, with an 80 percent increase in signing up to develop for the OS. That said, with only 3000 apps currently available for Windows 7, Microsoft still has a lot of catching up to do. Apple’s App Store currently has over 300,000 apps, and even […]

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens…yada yada yada (I mentioned the kittens). Here are a few of my favorite Firefox things: Web Developer, Pixel Perfect, ColorZilla, Measure It and Pixl Grabber. If you are not yet using the Firefox extension Firebug, run–don’t walk–to downloadville. It is a must-have Web tool, especially if you are […]

Mozilla last week published a “State of Mozilla” report which detailed its plans for the future. Along with Firefox for Android, the company will soon launch what it calls an “Open Web App ecosystem”, otherwise known as a platform-independent app store. Mozilla discussed the concept in the report, stating that “The current app model has […]

Builder’s professional cloud-based web development platform, Builder Pro, is now available for 300 developers to try out. Although it has been compared to Adobe’s Dreamweaver, it is actually closer to the Coda and Espresso development tools, but it is cloud-based. Another unique aspect of Builder Pro is that it is a browser-based development tool. Developers […]

HP-Palm’s “Developer Day” event occurred in New York last weekend, and they announced their new application framework call Enyo. The Enyo framework is said to load faster, and it’s supposedly more flexible and easier to use than previous operating systems. The new framework is supposed to succeed the previous framework, which was called Mojo, during […]

The folks at WebsiteBusiness.com recently announced the release of their own Website Building Tool, aptly called and located at WebsiteBuildingTool.com. The tool was designed to simplify the process of creating a business website from scratch. The owner of WebsiteBusiness, Kyle Winn, is proud of the new app, stating that “One thing I think about every […]

The founder of the web, Tim Berners-Lee, recently posted a 6-page statement that discusses trends that will affect the way we use the web. Currently, we use “http://www.” when we type in a URL, but according to the statement, that may not be the case much longer. Berners-Lee was the person who invented the Universal […]

Last week Ruby on Rails 3.0.3 was released with anticipation from developers who were looking forward performance reports. The last release, Rails 3.x, came with decreased performance, and this release is said to have brought the framework back up to speed, quite literally. This release includes a faster version of Active Record, which is the […]