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Opera software has released an update to its flagship desktop web browser. This update incorporates Opera’s lightweight web server Unite, previously only available as a separate beta download, into the browser.
Opera 10.10 is an incremental update to Opera 10 , released in September. If ...
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Parsing HTML and extracting useful bits of data is common job for web programmers. The only question is, how do you go about it?
You could use Regular Expressions . On the surface of things, regular expressions seem like a natural fit — after all, HTML is just strings of text right? ...
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Twitter has announced a new feature that will give users the ability to send their location with each tweet.
The new geotagging API tools are available only through the Twitter API, and are not part of Twitter.com just yet. So, if you’d like to post geodata with your tweets, ...
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Serious work has begun on Internet Explorer 9, the next revision of Microsoft’s flagship web browser.
That sounds like good news, right? After all, IE8 has its moments, but it isn’t exactly a cutting edge browser. Certainly, any improvement would seem welcome.
Yet, judging by ...
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“What if your browser was your operating system?”
That’s the question Google is hoping to answer with Chrome OS, the open source operating system centered entirely around its Chrome browser. All your apps — e-mail, communications, docs, photo management — are ...
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Chrome
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Mozilla has released a third beta for Firefox 3.6 with more than 90 bugfixes since beta 2, which was released just last week. If you’d like to take beta 3 for a spin, head over to the Mozilla downloads page .
Although beta 3 doesn’t contain any significant new features, it does ...
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The great promise of HTML5 is that it
will turn the web into a full-fledged computing platform
awash with video, animation and real-time interactions, yet free of the hacks and plug-ins common today. While the language itself is almost fully baked, ...
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A Brave New Web Will Be Here Soon, But Browsers Must Improve
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Mozilla’s Weave, a free add-on for Firefox that syncs your personal data across multiple PCs and mobile devices, is just about to graduate from a lab experiment to a stable, ready-for-primetime add-on.
The latest release of Weave brings the add-on to 1.0 status, though for now it ...
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As promised, Adobe has released beta versions of
both Flash Player 10.1 and AIR 2 . Originally
announced earlier this year at Adobe’s MAX conference, the goal of Flash Player 10.1 is to create a unified platform that works on every operating ...
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Adobe Releases New Betas: AIR Gets a Boost, But Flash ...
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Listen up open source developers, if you want
your project to succeed you’re going to have to
do more than write great code; you’re going to have to document it, teach new users how it works and provide real-world examples of what you can ...
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Great Documentation Is Key to Open Source Success
Google plans to introduce a new protocol for web transactions it says is over 50 percent faster than HTTP.
A post on Google’s Chromium blog describes the basics of the new protocol, called SPDY (pronounced “Speedy”):
SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for ...
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Chrome
Google plans to introduce a new protocol for web transactions it says is twice as fast as HTTP.
A post on Google’s Chromium blog describes the basics of the new protocol, called SPDY (pronounced “Speedy”):
SPDY is at its core an application-layer protocol for transporting ...
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Chrome
A new service called Typekit is now offering a legal, cloud-based method of using more elaborate typefaces on the web. The service has come out of beta and is serving up its fonts to web designers.
Despite some inconsistencies between browsers (not Typekit’s fault) and a few other ...
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Google has released a brand new programming language it hopes will solve some of the problems with existing languages such as Java and C++.
The language is called Go , and it was released under an open source license Tuesday. Google is no stranger to the open source world. The company has ...
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Google has dropped the prices for extra storage
space in Gmail and Picasa. Ostensibly the prices have
gone down because storage costs have dropped, but it might also be a necessary move anticipating the coming Chrome OS, which will likely need ...
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Google Cuts Online Storage Pricing, Fuels Anticipation ...
Just two weeks after the first beta release of Firefox 3.6, Mozilla has already pushed out a second beta for users to test. Mozilla is making good on its promise to deliver Firefox 3.6 without the extended delays that plagued the 3.5 release.
Firefox 3.6 beta 2, released Wednesday, brings 190 ...
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Mozilla
Building a mobile-optimized website is an increasingly common task being asked of web developers. Mobile-optimized designs take into account small screen size and often compress content for delivery over slower networks.
Mobile sub-sites are often the first strategy developers turn to. But at ...
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Mozilla Labs has released a new version of Jetpack, its system for extending Firefox using common web tools like HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Designed to simplify the process of building Firefox Add-ons, Jetpack is still an experimental Labs project, but the latest release sees Jetpack moving ...
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Mozilla
With Friday’s launch of the the new Motorola Droid and some slick new features in Android 2.0 , Google’s mobile operating system is stealing a bit of thunder from the iPhone.
Now, there’s one more battleground: Photoshop.com , Adobe’s online photo service based around ...
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From left to right, Mozilla’s director of mobile Stuart Parmenter, director of Firefox development Mike Beltzner, manager of Firefox’s front-end–features team Johnathan Nightingale and team lead of graphics Vladimir Vukićević. The foursome sits below a quilt made by Mozilla ...
