Downgrade rights have long been a part of the Windows license for certain versions, particularly for businesses. That said, the option gained notoriety with Windows Vista. With Vista, the downgrade right was not only marketed by computer makers, but, once Microsoft stopped selling XP, some PC makers sold Vista machines that were "pre-downgraded" to Windows XP.
Playground is an educational application designed to show interactive code samples for some of Google's coolest Javascript APIs. The breakpoints and Firebug Lite additions are some of the new features included in the version 2.
During a keynote at the Web 2.0 Expo, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch demoed Adobe Flash Catalyst. The tool, currently in beta, is intended to help designers who work with traditional design tools like Adobe's Photoshop and Illustrator add interactive elements via simple menus without programming.
Mozilla Firefox 3.0 became the most popular web browser in Europe last week, overtaking Microsoft Internet Explorer 7.0 for the first time on a weekly basis according to web analytics firm StatCounter. Firefox 3.0 took 35.05% of the European web browser market followed by 34.54% for IE 7.0.
Yahoo's completely redesigned mobile hub on the Web is a tall, scrollable mashup of search, news, e-mail, social networking, finance, weather, sports scores, and any other RSS feed you'd want to add.
With advanced features like website task managers, visual histories, individual browser memory management, and even the ability to re-open tabs that you accidentally closed, Chrome promised to reshape the browser, offering new abilities and capabilities that went beyond the status quo. Windows users got immediate access to those capabilities, but Google has yet to release Chrome for OS X and Linux.
Read MoreMicrosoft has added a feature to Live Search designed to give users up-to-the-minute information linked to a particular search query to help make searches more interactive for users. The company has enabled a new Active Answers feature for "flight status" queries, although it will expand the feature to include other search queries later
Adobe has introduced a new ActionScript 3.0 client library to provide resources to developers who are using Flash on Facebook's developer platform and Facebook Connect product, and will be promoting the possibilities of integrating Flash with Facebook's API on its Web site.
We've improved the DMXzone page navigation to make browsing through the large lists of items and articles easy and quick. Now, you can get to the last page with just a mouse click.
Check out the preview of the navigation that is fully CSS based. It fits with DMXzone perfectly, doesn't it?
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