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Mozilla CEO Criticizes Apple's Safari Distribution Scheme

Mozilla CEO John Lilly criticized Apple for their move of distributing Safari Web browser as part of their updating system.

"What Apple is doing now with their Apple Software Update on Windows is wrong," Lilly said in a Blog post. "It undermines the trust relationship great companies have with their customers, and that's bad - not just for Apple, but for the security of the whole Web."

Yahoo! New Performance Best Practices Now Available

Stoyan Stefanov has been working with the Yahoo! engineers to find more best practices, and present them. He covers the existing 14 rules, plus 20 new rules for faster web pages. The optimizations are categorized into: server, content, cookie, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile. Read More

March 24, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Google AJAX Translation API released

Google AJAX Search and Feeds team announced a new member to their API family, the Language API. This new API boasts two functions, language translation and language detection. Read More

March 24, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Google Visualization API released

Google introduced the latest Ajax API: Google Visualization API, a new API designed for visualizing structured data. This complements the Google Chart API, which has lifted its limits on the number of calls for charts. Read More

March 21, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Mini-review & Competition Microformats

We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Microformats - Empowering Your Markup for Web 2.0. The friendly people of friends of ED are giving away 5 books! Read More

March 19, 2008 Frank Beverdam

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Microsoft

Windows Vista Service Pack 1 available

Microsoft launched the first Windows Vista SP 1 as an update to Windows Vista OS that addresses key feedback from our customers. SP1 addresses specific reliability and performance issues, supports new types of hardware, and adds support for several emerging standards. Read More

March 19, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Safari 3.1 Released

Apple released Safari 3.1 Update with many improvements and new features upon performance, web standards and compatibility. Read More

March 19, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Adobe

ActionScript 3 RIA Reference Guide

Adobe released Adobe technology platform ActionScript reference for RIA development, a PDF of a new reference guide that provides a complete ActionScript 3 API listing for Flash Player, Adobe AIR and Flex 3.

Adobe Flash Lite and Reader LE Licensed by Microsoft

Adobe announced that Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite software, as well as Adobe Reader LE software for viewing PDF documents including email attachments and web content. Both Adobe products will be made available to Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, who license Windows Mobile software. Read More

March 18, 2008 Luba Sirakova

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Flickr Video Beta Coming Soon

The news about Flickr video has slipped off at the Flickr fourth anniversary party. Yet, various Yahoo people, including Flickr co-founder Stewart Butterfield confirmed it.

Flickr, which was acquired by Yahoo in March 2005, defined the concept of photo sharing, but has been slow to extend the service into the video world, until now.

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