SVG is gaining in popularity and therefore broader usage. And why not? Scalable Vector Graphics have a number of factors working for them: 1)As vector
WordCamp Toronto 2018 is coming to the North York Civic Centre at roughly the same time as WordPress 5.0 and the new Gutenberg will be
As one can well imagine throughout the Financial Fiasco, letting the Financial community handle your investments has become both financially risky and intellectually stressing. So
Mozilla counts in the Web World not just because of some of its pioneering Web development projects but because its Firefox browser really has Web
Go to the W3C Web standards website and see the following headline posting: XHTML 2 Working Group Expected to Stop Work End of 2009, W3C
In the previous posting showing two online and live Paint programs developed by Finnish University professors, one can get an idea of which browser vendors
In a previous post on Web Design IDEs, mention was made of the just released EXTjs Designer which allows users to design an RIA JavaScript
There is no doubt that the classic Computing World is fragmenting. No more the Wintel monopoly as it is losing its 90% market share dominance
ZDNet is running a series of much too early obituary articles for Firefox and Mozilla – and by implication, Opera. Ed Bott sees the money
In WordPress, Drupal and other Web tools there are a thousand and one JavaScript Lightbox routines. One of my favorites is FancyBox 2 because it
While completing a posting on the Mobile Mandate in Web Development, I ran across this excellent review of contemporary Web Development skills and tools. What
Having featured SiteGrinder, its only fair to consider Rombla: The idea is the same as SiteGrinder, make the development of websites more conducive to designers
Now be honest – as a Google Mail user are you seeing a lot more of these type messages? 1)More Ooops messages like these doing
Tim Oreilly of OReilly Books has written a piece on the bet that Google is making on HTML5. This is a good introduction a)to some
Okay, I will admit a bias toward WordPress because I have been using it on 5 of my own blogs and dozens of other projects.
More often than not I am recommending to clients that they use blogs rather then custom designed websites for their new or even existing Web
Depending on who is doing the counting Microsoft’s IE Browser is starting to drop below 50% market share for all its versions – IE9, IE8,
jQuery deserves its reputation for being a breakthrough JavaScript framework for 4 reasons. First, it is open source in every incarnation which has accelerated its use and
This reviewer has been a Dreamweaver user since its early appearance as a Macromedia program over 15 years ago. Dreamweaver was the first IDE for HTML+CSS+Javascript
Google has shaped content on the Web more than any other technology vendor. True, Apple has had a wide influence on the design and
I have previously commented on the importance of JavaScript to Adobe and Web 2.o in general – so it is very notable that work on
Source: StatCounter Global Stats I must give credit where credit is due – I found this very helpful link at Digital Inspiration blog. But checking
The following NYTimes story shows the impact that Microsoft’s newly re-relaunched search engine, Bing, is having in the search engine wars. Instead of being a
Covering Microsoft in the late 1990’s I discovered that the Redmond troops were much more forthright then the executive suite – particularly when a quality
E4X is an extension of ECMAScript that makes XML processing a snap in JavaScript. Read about all the details at W3CSchools or Yahoo or WikiPedia
2010 was supposed to be the Year of the Tablet. 2011 will truly be the year of the tablet as a)Apple and Steve Jobs have
PCworld’s Nick Mediati has done one of those flawed reviews that commits huge errors of omission. This occurs when comparing the three most popular browsers
For the past few months theOpenSourcery has been emphasizing web tools that expedite info-intensive SPD-Single Page Designs. These tools include jQuery based routines that expedite layouts
Measuring the Web The Web is the20th Century’s Cauldron of Change. The Web is spilling out change that is innovative, widespread and intimidating. Innovative because
We cover in our sister publication, PictureThat, the accelerating convergence in functionality and features between still cameras and video camcorders. Still cameras are borrowing much
JavaScript as a contender for RIA usage is not readily contemplated. JavaScript appears to have the same problem as server-based Web UI toolkits from ASP
With the browser wars fully engaged – the improvements in JavaScript speed has been no less than astonishing. But now its not just Mozilla versus
Over the past two years the NYTimes has been showing an evergrowing Web 2.0 savvy. Like many of its large newspaper cohorts, the NYTimes is
Your browser does not support iframes. The following jQuery powered widget, jCarouselLite, is an example of the dangers of jQuery and CSS collisions in WordPress
The NYTimes has done it again- produced the best online graphic of the US Budget available anywhere. And the Times did it one day after
If you are frustrated with the US Congress and its proclivity to kick burning issues down the road – take a look at what the
As the table below shows, HTML5 is abandoning many of the styling options of the TABLE command: Attribute Value Description >align left center right Not
WebPage Performance Tuning WordPress Performance Tuning is like WordPress SEO, an anointed discipline akin to Alchemy – complex practices subject to many sub-disciplines. As a
This site has been citing Cloud Computing as one of the critical tools for delivering integrated information at your fingertips. Providing not just the ease
This article could really be titled how IE8 measure against W3C and other Web Standards. So this is really a report on progress on picking
The NYTimes Technology section has a 3 page story on Mozilla and its most important product, the Firefox browser. This story is notable for 3
Mootools is a free, accomplished, lightweight, very close to non-obtrusive JavaScript framework. Here are two recent innovations. Much better coverage of its plugins is here.
In a previous post, 10 reasons were given for doing your website development in a CMS/Blog. And the most important reasons were that the best
Steve Jobs in his announcement of the Apple iPad 2 emphasized that client computing has reached a Post-PC era. In fact, Jobs cited the complete product line of
Now use Scribd shortcode on a WordPress Blog. Powerpoint on WordPress self-hosted webblogs First try is with WordPress [ embed ] statement Note the Powerpoint
The Web Doctor is in at the Quinte West Library on Monday July 7th from 5:30 to 7:30PM. The topic is website makeovers – when,
Most of the attention in the WordPress community for the past five years has been about the effort to build a better WordPress frontend –
The above is the resources given with the “free” LIghtCMS – yep not a lot. Now heavens knows I feel strongly that developers and bloggers
JPEG2000 has shrivelled and not quite died but certainly is not what it promised to be as a replacement for the JPEG image format. Here
For the past few months I have been working on a blog widget … it was just about ready when I got an attack of
In a previous posting,on our media site [Bookraft.com], the NYTimes was praised for its Web 2.0 savvy; but what I neglected to mention was the
Firefox 4: fast, powerful and empowering View more presentations from Mike Beltzner. The people at Mozilla who are responsible for Firefox deserve admiration. They were
The strip above tells a good part of the reason this Web Developer is switching. First important note, ye Editor barely bothers to use any
jQuery based image slider plugins for JavaScript and WordPress have gotten so good that there are now at least 50 slider plugins that would easily
Creating lively and attractive splash pages in WordPress is easier than ever to do. And the payoff is not only more visitors but also more
Controling your website’s image sizes has become a top priority among Web developers Here is the reason why: As of 2017 end , HTTPArchive.org reports
There is a podcast at the Ajaxian blog with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, entitled the Audible Ajax. They talk about the State of Ajax and
The Serverside is reporting that Sun is effectively making Java two tiered – an Open Java – and then the latest JDK with all the
The good people at Google Blogoscope have done a story about the new scripting capabilities being added to Google apps. As seen below there are
Some people believe that Web GUI operations cannot even remotely match those available on the desktop – be that Windows 7 with its Aero goodies
This advertisement that is appearing all over the Web is a dual edged sword. On one hand it is trying to encourage users to upgrade
JavaScript and WordPress go together like oil and water – they mix but only under certain conditions. True, WordPress supports Java Script and its many
Over the past year, three online Web testing “playgrounds” have emerged which can be quite useful to WordPress and Web developers alike. All three allow
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