Google has released its "stable" version of Chrome 4.0, an incarnation under development for months that brings extensions to customize Chrome features and a host of technologies for more powerful Web programming.
Last week, Google's YouTube announced early support for HTML5 video,
which can be built directly into Web pages and viewed with browsers
without relying on a plug-in such as Adobe Systems' Flash, Microsoft's
Silverlight, or Apple's QuickTime. Another Web video site, Vimeo,
followed suit.
A week ago we started a competition to give 5 copies of Dan Wellman's new book away! Today, after pointing out names in the dark, we have our lucky winners: Russell Haskell, Paul Klein, Dave Ackroyd, Kristen Alderson and Frank Penn. Everyone will be notified via email, so you can get your books as quick as possible.
Congratulations and stay tuned for more Mini-reviews and free books in the next weeks!
The marketplace is filled with credible alternatives to IE6, including Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. If you need to use Internet Explorer because it’s required for compatibility with specific websites or apps, you have alternatives from Microsoft itself.
In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team released the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and they're really quite proud of it.
Creating an app that suits one's business goals or personal tastes, however, isn't necessarily easy. While some Web services provide templates to build an app, NonLinear's Mac desktop application lets users fully customize their app.
In the first demo of the series we will show you an Ajax Event Calendar that consolidates a few Google Calendars having several country Holidays in them. You can choose to add any Google Calendar or own database to the calendar view.
We've got a brand new mini-review and competition of Dan Wellman's new book - jQuery UI 1.7: The User Interface Library for jQuery. Our friends from Packt Publishing are giving away 5 books!
Read MoreApple released the first developer beta of Mac OS X 10.6.3 last week. Among the 221 code changes, there appears to be some initial support for parts of the OpenGL 3.0 spec, though Apple will have a long way to go before Snow Leopard is OpenGL 3-ready.
Mozilla made available the first release candidate of Firefox 3.6. This will be the first major update to Firefox 3.5, which debuted roughly six months ago. The Firefox team reminded users that the 3.6 release offers improvements in performance, web technologies, customization and third party application support.