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Activists unveil stealth browser
Hacktivismo, a group of human-rights advocates and computer security experts, has released a Firefox-based browser designed to allow anonymous Web surfing. Read more »
Mozilla releases fifth beta of Firefox 3
Mozilla released its fifth beta version of Firefox 3 for Windows and the Mac on Wednesday, bringing a handful of improvements in ease of use to the open-source Web browser. Read more »
Mozilla plans major facelift for Firefox 3
Mozilla is hoping the next version of its Firefox browser will look familiar -- regardless of which operating system you use. Read more »
With Firefox 2, Mozilla touts security and speed
Mozilla officially released Firefox 2, adding security features and a new interface. Read more »
Mozilla takes wraps off Firefox 1.5
A new version of the Firefox Web browser debuted Tuesday in the United States, promising speedier browsing, swifter updates and better pop-up blocking. Read more »
Firefox marks its first year on the Net
Firefox turned one year old Wednesday, marking yet another milestone for the popular open-source browser. Read more »
Firefox 3: New front in the browser war
Mozilla released Firefox 3 on Tuesday, opening a new front in the browser wars. Read more »
Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0
A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed 'Flock', which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today. Read more »
Greasemonkey coming to Chrome
Greasemonkey, a Firefox customisation tool popular among high-powered Web surfers, is coming to Google Chrome browser. Read more »
Opera mobile gets Symbian support
There's been a lot of activity recently in the world of mobile browsers. Read more »
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Designing 3D buttons with pure CSS
CSS buttons are much more efficient than image-based buttons because they're entirely text-based. Here are two techniques for creating a bevelled-edge by styling the borders of a CSS button. Read more »
Handling multiple submits in a single form with PHP
Processing form data in PHP is significantly simpler than most other Web programming languages. This simplicity and ease of use makes it possible to do some fairly complex things with forms, including multiple submit buttons in the same form. Read more »
Improving the mobile Web user experience
Traditionally our experience with the mobile Web was pretty terrible, but the good news is that this is starting to change, at least according to Oliver Weidlich, usability specialist at Ideal Interfaces. Read more »
Safe browser an oxymoron?
In November 2003, the CERT Coordination Center first advised Web users to consider using a Web browser other than Microsoft Internet Explorer. Read more »
Opera CTO: IE 8 will fail Acid test
Two years ago, the Acid2 test was announced in this column. Acid2 is a complex Web browser test page that shows a smiley face when rendered correctly Read more »
Creating cross-platform browser event handlers
Handling browser events in a cross-platform environment requires careful design. See how browser events are handled in HTML and JavaScript. Read more »
Build cross-browser XML paging code
If scrolling through a long XML table is not an optimal experience for your browser app, why not implement pagination? Presenting data in page-length chunks can help your users find the data they need. See how to build fast, cross-browser XML pagination. Read more »
Develop a VoiceXML solution using BeVocal
VoiceXML (VXML) is a markup language like HTML. The difference is that a phone browser rather than a Web browser renders VXML. Get started with this article. Read more »
Dealing with differences in CSS floats in IE and Netscape
An annoying problem with CSS code is the interpretation by different browsers. Here's a workaround to one problem: the differences in how variable-width floats are rendered in IE and Netscape. Read more »
Locate errors in your JavaScript code
When you debug JavaScript, you don't have the luxury of the powerful tools available in other development environments. Fortunately, you can fall back on some alternative techniques to locate problems in your code. Read more »
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Do browsers need a Universal Edit Button?
-- As websites allow more user generated content do browsers need a way to better inform users that pages are editable? Read more »
Fennec: Firefox for Mobile reaches alpha
-- Mozilla has released Firefox for Mobile alpha code, codenamed Fennec, to users of the Nokia N810 and N800 Internet tablet. We take a look at the features of Fennec. Read more »
StartupCamp Melbourne: The review
-- StartupCamp Melbourne looks to have produced just as interesting ideas as the Sydney event which immediately preceded it, but the Victorian start-ups appear to have stumbled during execution. Sydney 1, Melbourne 0. Read more »
Firefox 3's better performance and memory improvements
-- As beta 5 is due to come out next week, I take a look at some of the new features and improvements in Firefox 3. Read more »
Has Google Crippled Gmail for Safari?
-- One of the true failings of Ajax is that it's a mashup of a number of technologies that relies on various versions of code to support various browsers - that it's not complimented by a single cross-platform runtime like the Flash Player. Google's popular Gmail is likely to be the most used Ajax application today, and it like other Ajax applications it suffers from the inability to offer true cross browser support, especially for Safari. Read more »
What to expect from Rich Internet Applications
-- I had a look this week at what the developers claim to be the world's largest Adobe Flex application. Read more »
Mixed Emotions
-- Betamax showed that technical superiority can be beaten with a good dose of distribution -- does the same fate await Silverlight? Read more »
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Gnome 2.16 Preview
With the next major release of the GNOME desktop scheduled for release next month, each passing day sees more of the code frozen. This is the first iteration since version 2.14 was released in April, which saw extensive improvements in performance. Here is our first look at some of the features in Gnome 2.16. Read more »
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Space pr0n, patent karma and Yang out -- Club Builder
On Club Builder this week: how NASA plans to get the Internet into space, Jerry Yang is out the door at Yahoo and Brendan Eich discusses javascript engine competition.