Web Tools and Methods
Google Finance
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
Why Mozilla Counts
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
The Death of XHTML2
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
Browser Negligence: What to Do About Microsoft
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
EXTjs Designer Review
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
Client Software Development – 3 Added Degrees of Complexity
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
Dart for JavaScript
D3JS & the SVG Web Advantage
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 Features Gutenberg
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
Piria’s Rombla Online Web Developer
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
Google => Goofle ?
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
Why HTML 5 is Vital to Cloud Computing
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
WordPress is Best Overall CMS of 2009
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.
Blogs for Website Design in General
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
The Beastly Browser Market
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,
Mozilla and Opera: Signs of Open Source Problems
ZDNet is running a series of much too early obituary articles for Firefox and Mozilla – and by implication, Opera. Ed Bott sees the money
FancyBox 2- Versatile Media Display
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
Web Development Tools Overview
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
JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4 Delayed-Means Forking Inevitable?
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
Tracking Browser and Other Web/Mobile Stats for Free
Source: StatCounter Global Stats I must give credit where credit is due – I found this very helpful link at Digital Inspiration blog. But checking
Bing’s Advantage
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
Bloodied Windows 7 Details
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
Whither E4X ?
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
Mobile Tablet Race Update for iPad2
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
The Better jQuery Bookshelf
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
Replacing Adobe Dreamweaver
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
Blog Authority and Readability Tools
Google has shaped content on the Web more than any other technology vendor. True, Apple has had a wide influence on the design and
CES 2009: Yahoo TV Widgets
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 RAIA Demos
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
JavaScript to Duplicate Java Speeds?
With the browser wars fully engaged – the improvements in JavaScript speed has been no less than astonishing. But now its not just Mozilla versus
NYTimes Gets Web 2.0 Technology; But …
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
jQuery and CSS Collisions in WordPress
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
Technical Story: Best Chart of US Federal Budget
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
PCWorld’s Bogus Browsers Test
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
Single Page Web Design:Luminato Festival
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 your Website
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
Visions of Cloud Computing
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
IE8 Versus Chrome 1, Firefox 3, Safari 4 and Opera 9
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
A Look at Mozilla Firefox
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 Motors On
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.
Best Open CMS: WordPress vs Joomla vs Drupal
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 Post-PC Era:The Computing Divides
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
HTML5 Latest Recommendations
If you are frustrated with the US Congress and its proclivity to kick burning issues down the road – take a look at what the
Abandonment of Styling Options in HTML5
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
WordPress WebPage Performance Tuning
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
LightCMS, with Emphasis on the Former
The above is the resources given with the “free” LIghtCMS – yep not a lot. Now heavens knows I feel strongly that developers and bloggers
RIP JPEG2000
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
Liquida Widgets
For the past few months I have been working on a blog widget … it was just about ready when I got an attack of
NYTimes and Mobile Connections
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
Whats in Firefox 4
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
Switching to Chrome Browser from Firefox
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
Powerpoint Presentations on the Web
Now use Scribd shortcode on a WordPress Blog. Powerpoint on WordPress self-hosted webblogs First try is with WordPress [ embed ] statement Note the Powerpoint
2 Free Web Tutorials at Quinte West Library
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,
Meetup-WordPress Backend Bustout
Most of the attention in the WordPress community for the past five years has been about the effort to build a better WordPress frontend –
Ajaxians Being Grateful, Skeptical, then Resigned …
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
Sun Setting on Open Java?
The Serverside is reporting that Sun is effectively making Java two tiered – an Open Java – and then the latest JDK with all the
Google Apps Scripting: JavaScript
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
Web 2.0 RAIA GUI: Better Than the Desktop?
Some people believe that Web GUI operations cannot even remotely match those available on the desktop – be that Windows 7 with its Aero goodies
The IE Boast
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
JavaScript and WordPress go together like oil and water – they mix but only under certain conditions. True, WordPress supports Java Script and its many
WP Sliders: M-vSlider
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 Splash Pages in WordPress
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
WebP with WordPress
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
Google APIs
Backbase and YUI started it, and now Google has finally succumbed – a great demo interface for its JavaScript APIs: Try it you will like
