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Twitter targeted by malware attacks

Microblogging service Twitter has started to be targeted by online criminals with malware. Read more »

Silverlight ready to Moonlight on Linux

Microsoft and Novell said Tuesday they are nearly ready with a beta version of Moonlight - a Firefox add-on that allows Silverlight content to play on Linux PCs. Read more »

Adobe addresses Flash Player 'clickjacking' flaw

Adobe has addressed a security flaw in its Flash Player products that could lead to 'clickjacking' attacks. Read more »

Patch or get PWNED in a flash

Recently fixed vulnerabilities in Sun's Java Runtime Environment and Adobe's Flash player mean that unpatched systems are vulnerable and could be infected with spyware or recruited into a botnet by simply visiting a Web page with exploit code -- and Google last month warned that 10 percent of Web sites contain this kind of malicious code. Read more »

Adobe demos Flash-based online Photoshop

Adobe has offered a preview of Photoshop Express, which is a Flash-based version of Photoshop. Read more »

Open-source Silverlight released for developers

The Novell-led Mono project this week made the first, though incomplete, public release of Moonlight, an open-source implementation of Microsoft's Silverlight, a browser plug-in that competes with products such as Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, Adobe Shockwave, JavaFX, and Apple QuickTime. Read more »

MS, Adobe war in blogosphere

Arch-rivals Microsoft and Adobe's struggle over next-generation Web development technologies has spilled into the companies' official blogs, with mud being flung from both sides. Read more »

Build the platform and apps will come: Adobe exec

Adobe's strategy for it Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is not to take on Microsoft directly, but provide a platform for developers to build Web-applications, according to a company executive. Read more »

Firefox improves pop-up ad blocking

Mozilla developers are fighting back against companies who use Java- and Flash-based pop-up and pop-under advertisements. Read more »

Macromedia's Renaissance man

Kevin Lynch claims that when it comes to interactivity, Web application design is still in the Dark Ages - but there are innovations coming through which promise to drag web development into the 21st century. Read more »

Features (11)

Uncloaking 'invisible' Flash Web content

Adobe announced yesterday that it was providing optimised Adobe Flash Player technology to Google and Yahoo to help them better index dynamic Web content and RIAs that include SWFs. It sounds exciting, but what exactly does it mean for Web searchers, Web masters, and Flash creators? CNET News.com asked Adobe, Google, and Yahoo and got some answers. Read more »

Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »

Tools for building Pocket PC Flash applications

Can you build real world Flash applications for the Pocket PC? You better believe it, and we'll show you the basics. Read more »

Flexing some muscle

Macromedia's Flex allows developers to create rich presentation layers for Internet applications using Flash. We'll show you how to get your first Flex application up and running. Read more »

Adding streaming Flash audio to a Web site

Need to add streaming audio to your web site? Micheal Meadhra shows you how with Flash. Read more »

HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses features, pain points, adoption rate, and more

In this interview, HTML 5 Editor Ian Hickson discusses his favourite features, the features he thinks might be most contentious, the pain points he expects HTML 5 will address, and much more. He also talks about what he would change in the original HTML spec if he could go back in time. Read more »

50 significant moments from internet history

We take you through 50 defining moments of the internet. Read more »

Interview: Is SEO evil?

Continuing our Web Directions South build-up, we present an interview with Scott Gledhill. Scott is presenting a talk at the conference next week entitled "Is SEO Evil?" We talked to Scott to find out. Read more »

Developer Spotlight: Geoff Bowers

Builder AU recently caught up with Geoff Bowers to talk about Web services, surviving the dot com crash, and the decision to open source Daemon's flagship content management system. Read more »

Ask the MX expert: Create a login in ColdFusion

Robin Hilliard, our resident Macromedia MX expert shows one Builder AU reader how to create a session login screen in ColdFusion MX. Read more »

Blog (7)

Crying, mooning and leaving

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's roundup we see that continuous whining can get results, Linux users get 64-bit Flash and Moonlight previews, the latest in the Yahoo/Microsoft relationship and Senator Conroy ducks and weave in Senate Question Time. Read more »

Flash vs. Silverlight

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we take a look at the latest versions of Flash and Silverlight, Windows 7 and what's new in the world of open source. Read more »

Flash seeking the open road?

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Tristan Nitot appeared to have the gift of precognisance when he said that Adobe may open source Flash if Silverlight gained enough traction Read more »

Adobe MAX conference day 2: Cumby, Mobiles, and Winners

Andrew Muller [blogs:nouveauricheinternet] -- Today was the second day of the Adobe Max conference in Las Vegas. There was some big news for Flash developers looking to target mobile devices. Read more »

Live Blog: MIX 07 Keynote

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- Live blog from the MIX 07 Keynote. Will we see an announcement regarding Silverlight? It certainly appears so. Read more »

Pirates rejoice!

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- This week's roundup brings news about Vista first service pack, PDF's standards push and a video of why the Web needs changing. Read more »

Schoolgirl builds SecondLife Web app

Nick Gibson [blogs:byteclub] -- A new web application AjaxLife allows interaction with the online virtual world SecondLife. The cool part? It was developed in just a week by a fifteen year old English schoolgirl. Read more »

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