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Developers of sports fantasy websites will be excited about Yahoo!’s latest announcment: API suites for its Fantasy Football and Fantasy Baseball services. Also announced were upcoming APIs for Fantasy Basketball and Fantasy Hockeym, which are to be released in the coming months. The director of Yahoo!’s fantasy sports division, David Geller, says the APIs will […]

Adobe announced its HTTP Dynamic Streaming, a new content delivery protocol for the Adobe Flash Platform, and the Open Source Media Framework (OSMF) for the creation of custom media players. Both products are designed to enable developers to innovate and build on the Adobe Flash Platform. HTTP Dynamic Streaming allows developers to “use of existing […]

Apple’s open source WebKit web browser engine, or as it’s more commonly known, web browser platform, is the predominant web browsing platform for mobile web browsers. Although some people don’t know about it, WebKit powers the Safari mobile web browser on the iPhone and iPad. The WebKit Wiki provides web developers with documentation, frequently asked […]

If Opera has its way, the combination of mobile browsers and HTML 5 will enable web-based applications to compete with native applications. By using the web as an antidote, Opera believes that HTML 5 will take web-based applications to the next level, a move that Google agrees with. Opera co-founder Jon von Tetzchner said the […]

The spread of mobile social networking, and more specifically, the advances and growth of the Android OS, Facebook has released new tools which enable developers to incorporate social networking features into web applications for the Google platform. The newly released software development kit (SDK) for Android will provide developers with access to Facebook’s Graph API, […]

If you never heard of SPI, it refers to the Single Page Interface paradigm. This means that your 300 page website can be developed using the SPI so that it is a single page, no reloading, with no loss of typical website features such as SEO, bookmarks, etc. ItsNat, an open source, Java AJAX component-based […]

Only a few years ago WAP was one of the few options available for mobile web development, and the limitations it imposed made it unlikely to enthrall all but the most persistent developer. With mobile web applications exploding onto the market for websites everywhere, is WAP a more viable option in 2010? Research has shown […]

HTML 5 has been a hot topic the last few months, and Google’s announcement last week that it has “open sourced” the VP8 video codec was reason enough for developers to celebrate. This week we learned that Mozilla is trying to incorporate the VP8 codec into the HTML 5 specification as part of the video […]

The mobile age is upon us, and its moving fast. Even ESPN announced its own mobile applications for Dallas, Boston, Chicago, LA and New York City. This article will tell you 10 questions that you should be asking yourself about your own mobile strategy. Here are 10 questions to consider as you decide upon your […]

Responding to privacy concerns, Google released an add-on for IE, Firefox and Chrome which blocks some of the information provided by its own analytics service, among others. The add-on enables users to opt-out, blocking the flow of specific data from their PC that is sent to Google Analytics when users visit a site that uses […]

Last week at the Google I/O conference the search engine giant announced that it would feature “native code” browser applications in its Chrome Web store. The Chrome Web store, scheduled to open later this year, will showcase applications designed to work in its Chrome web browser. The Chrome Operating System will include Native Client, the […]

JavaScript developers are upset at the statements coming out about HTML 5, saying that they are “unhinged from reality”. They believe the term “HTML 5” is being used as a buzzword, similar to the way that “AJAX” and “Web 2.0” have been misused. Developers are concerned that people are confusing the core HTML 5 specification […]