A List Apart published a very informative article about HTML 5. The author sheds light on some major features that are expected when the new standard is ready.
"To give authors more flexibility and interoperability, and enable more interactive and exciting websites and applications, HTML 5 introduces and enhances a wide range of features including form controls, APIs, multimedia, structure, and semantics, " the author writes.
Read MoreThe official release of Ext v2.0 is available for download. This new version of the Ext framework provides increased performance, ease of configuration, flexibility and UI capabilities.
Marat Denenberg has continued the trend of CSS frameworks by taking Mootools and creating CSS.js.
"With programmatic CSS, you can use loops to generate CSS that might have taken pages to type out. You can have CSS constants. You can do all sorts of math and calculations for a property", says Denenberg.
Read MoreAccording to vulnerability-scanning company Qualys there has been a massive increase in the number of flaws found in Microsoft software for the past year.
"Between 2006 and 2007, there was an almost threefold rise in Microsoft flaws", Qualys said.
Google cleaned more than 40,000 hosting sites from their index as urgent measures taken after the warning announcement posted in Sunbelt Blog that thousands of malware redirects were showing up in search engine results. As it seems so for now the biggest source of this sort of attack has been taken offline.
Read MoreYahoo! Widget Blog announced the release of the latest version of Yahoo! Widgets. There are a lot of major improvements and an extended platform for developers to create richer and more powerful desktop Widgets.
Macworld published an informative review of Adobe ColdFusion 8.
"On a high level, ColdFusion is one of the most comprehensive database tools in years – but it’s so much more. It’s a presentation package, a programming language, a means of producing and editing PDFs and images, and it’s available for every major platform," says the author of the article, David Bradforth.
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