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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 »

Firefox, IE vulnerable to fake log-in pages?

Mozilla's Firefox 2 and Microsoft's Internet Explorer 7 are vulnerable to a flaw that could allow attackers to steal passwords. Read more »

Language barriers may stifle Web future

The lack of backwards compatibility between the Web scripting language XHTML 2.0 and its HTML predecessors could make billions of Web pages obsolete, experts fear. Read more »

Firefox tool gets slick

Rip, mix--get burned? Read more »

Ballmer Q&A: Feeling the heat at Microsoft

For a man who just got fined more than a billion dollars for antitrust violations, Steve Ballmer is feeling plenty of competitive heat. Read more »

Yahoo hopes to charm developers with Go 3.0

Yahoo is hoping to prove it can be as mobile and open as its rivals. Read more »

Safari 3.1 update fixes 13 security flaws

Apple has released Safari 3.1 for users on Mac OS X and Windows. Along with new features are 13 security updates, most of the fixes address cross-site scripting flaws. 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 »

Phishing overtakes viruses and Trojans

Phishing attacks have outnumbered e-mails infected with viruses and Trojan horse programs for the first time, according to security experts. Read more »

Microsoft rushes out 'critical' fix

Microsoft issued a "critical" security fix for Windows on Tuesday in the US, two weeks before its scheduled release date. Read more »

Features (91)

Prepare for the transition from HTML forms to XForms

XForms are an XML-based replacement for conventional HTML Web forms. Learn about the basic elements of XForms and see how to implement them in a standard Web form. Read more »

Work around XForms' lack of browser support

XForms offers a way to implement Web forms, but most browsers don't support it. Use the Java Framework and Chiba to process server side XForms. 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 »

Checking Web pages with HTML::Lint

If you want to ensure consistent pages across multiple browsers, it's a good idea to check the syntax. We'll show you how to use this powerful syntax-checking tool. 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 »

Ask Chuck:.NET user controls

This week Chuck takes another look at a Builder AU reader's question on user controls, this time focusing on Windows form controls in the browser. Read more »

Ian Griffiths talks Windows Presentation Foundation (Part 1)

Windows Presentation Foundation is one of the most interesting new developments in .NET 3.0, we sat down with WPF trainer and author Ian Griffiths to talk WPF, Silverlight and what Microsoft has over the competition. Read more »

Perform HTML form validation with ASP.NET

Most business applications involve data input, validation, and some form of output. Web applications are no different. Learn how to validate user input with ASP.NET. Read more »

Lay out forms with CSS2 instead of tables

Building forms with HTML and tables creates a lot of extra code and isn't very elegant. CSS2 is a good alternative, and this quick tutorial will help you get started. 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 »

Blog (1)

Web continues to stagnate

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- If you are in the Internet Explorer development team, you are faced with a conundrum -- the choice is either break the Web or give standards compatibility a lower priority. Read more »

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