An argument being made on this blog is that Microsoft, by trying to stifle Web Development by not improving IE features for 5-6 years(only security
Here is another IDE, from alfega, that appeared on the PHP/Web development scene. It has the flavor of CodeGear/Embarcadero’s Delphi for PHP. I have seen
Google Breaks Down Editor Deb Donston has done an eye opening editorial in the May 18th 2009 issue of eWeek –” Oh my gosh can
I have been having an extended discussion on this blog about the role of Web writers and savvy developers in allowing Microsoft to be very
Open Source CMS-Content Management Systems/Blogs like WordPress, Joomla and Drupal have become so popular as basic website delivery vehicles that they are now “must-know” tools
IEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE9, what a disappointment! It would not be so bad if Microsoft had managed expectations better. But the ACID3 scores going from 55% to 95%.
When your total browser market share is declining by 1% per month [see wikipedia note here] and you are courting developers for your new Windows
So then in 1997 to defeat Netscape Browser and Server, Bill made a promise to US Business Leaders – Microsoft in IE and IIS would
Matt Mullenweg has written a detailed post on Gutenberg, the upcoming WordPress PageBuilder plugin. Within the post is a critical commitment by Matt: WordPress has
Sitegrinder is a Photoshop plugin – not an ordinary photo-effects oriented plugin; but rather a Web Development tool. SiteGrinder allows graphic artist to layout the
Mozilla are the people behind Firefox. And some users may know it for XUL – the XML based User-interface Language that Microsoft has copied and
After 10 years of playing increasingly third fiddle to Google’s search engine Microsoft’s Search Engine , Bing, has turned an important corner. It is garnering
This paper by Bruce Lawson has a lot of the goods on whats happening on HTML5. There is mucho HTML 5 appearing at the wikipedia
WordCamp was very informative and so the second day gets its own posting. Plugins are the topic this morning. TrailMeme Plugin allows creating a summary
The PC market is seeing a profound split or forking in the road on how Computing is served to the public. It is heavy-creative versus
There has been an almost complete new set of browsers released in the last two months from all the major browser vendors. So these new
3D Transformations are applied here in CSS3 to buttons in muscular fashion. But the CSS3 3D coding is truly long and garrulous [think error prone].
Having been badly cash-burned by Facebook and Google on their pay for click schemes, this reviewer has concentrated on 2 different SEO Marketing strategies. First,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The above is the resources given with the “free” LIghtCMS – yep not a lot. Now heavens knows I feel strongly that developers and bloggers
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