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E-forms standard finalised

The main standards body for the Web released the final specification this week for XForms, a standard that will compete in the growing market for electronic forms. Read more »

Macromedia readies ColdFusion update

Macromedia plans to wade into the growing electronic forms market with the next version of its ColdFusion Web application server. Read more »

Adobe to send PDF to standards group

Adobe Systems expected on Monday in the US to detail plans to submit its Portable Document Format specifications to the International Organization for Standardization, a body of particular importance to governments and large corporations. Read more »

Adobe to take Flash videos to desktop

Adobe Media Player, set for release later this year, can play back downloaded video files, rather than browser-based video streams. Read more »

Adobe brings Flash to LiveCycle Enterprise Suite

Adobe on Monday released an early version of LiveCycle Enterprise Suite, a revamped version of its document management and work-flow server. Read more »

It's Adobe's game to lose, CEO says

Bruce Chizen discusses open source, the importance of video and increasing competition from the likes of Google. Read more »

Google plays with Gears, ready to unveil Docs?

News from the blogosphere today has indicated that Google is preparing to launch one of its first offline-ready Web applications in the form of Google Docs as part of Google Gears. Read more »

Adobe cracks down on alleged pirates

Adobe Systems has stepped up efforts to curb software piracy in the Asia-Pacific including corporate misuse of its enterprise software licenses. Read more »

Adobe releases Lightroom beta for Windows

Adobe Systems released this week the first Windows beta version of Lightroom, software geared for enthusiasts and professionals who need to edit, catalog and view digital photos. Read more »

Microsoft gunning for Adobe's PDF format?

When Bill Gates showed off the new Metro document format in Longhorn at a hardware conference last week, some analysts were quick to call it a PDF killer. Read more »

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Features (23)

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 2)

In the second part of our interview with WPF expert Ian Griffiths, we discuss the Rich Internet Application platform battle, the future of the desktop and whether now is the right time to switch to WPF. Read more »

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Getting to know ColdFusion 8

In the final interview of our MAX07 series, we talk with Tim Buntel, senior product marketing manager ColdFusion, and discuss the release of ColdFusion 8 Read more »

Starting with Spry

Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »

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Tim Buntel and the Tale of Scorpio

Chatting about the upcoming release of ColdFusion 8 called Scorpio with Tim Buntel, Adobe's ColdFusion Marketing Manager. Read more »

First Look: ActivePDF Toolkit

In this "First Look", we take a look at ActivePDF Toolkit, a flexible API-driven toolset that ASP and .NET developers can use to manipulate PDF files and forms. Read more »

The Mobile Future

The next battle for the hearts and minds of internet developers will be fought on the mobile phone. Read more »

Flex: The new face of design and development

Far more than just a toy for graphic-savvy developers, Adobe's Flex is one of the best Rich Internet Application tools around. Read more »

Graphics Wars: which vendors are winning?

While the tide of technological delivery continues to shift, four graphics software vendors struggle for supremacy. ZDNet Australia profiles the leading combatants. Read more »

Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously

There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »

Building Microsoft code inside the tornado

Q&A -- Vice president S 'Soma' Somasegar shares his views on how interoperability and open source will help Microsoft. Read more »

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Vegas: Elvis, Blue Men and the world's biggest Flash enabled

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- I'm in Las Vegas this week for MAX, Adobe's annual user conference, and this morning's opening keynote went off with a bang. And a loud one at that! Read more »

Flash in the pan

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- So Silverlight will kill Flash, will it? Maybe it will. A lot of people have told me this and I began to wonder if the opinion had any validity. Read more »

The 2008 Trends and Threats to Internet security

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- I recently came across the IBM Internet Security Systems X-Force 2008 Mid-Year Trend Statistics report, which outlines issues affecting internet security, including application vulnerabilities, phishing, malware and spam. Read more »

Builder AU 5th Birthday Competition

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Builder AU is turning five and we are offering readers the opportunity to win one of six big ticket prizes! Read more »

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    The punching and counterpunching continued in the ongoing web browser development bout. Each time one browser closes a feature gap, a new feature appears in one of the others -- how we ever put up with the years of browser stagnation, I'll never know. Read more »

    -- posted by Staff

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    Since its release in May last year, Gears has supported only Internet Explorer and Firefox browsers. With the addition of Safari into the Gears fold, it closes the loop of major browsers to support Gears Read more »

    -- posted by Chris Duckett

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    Victorian Web start-up My Perfect has a strong story and rationale for why it will succeed. But it has to overcome some challenges and design flaws first. Read more »

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