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Flash to take 3D graphics plunge: Adobe

In a move that could keep ties with online games programmers strong, Adobe Systems is adding 3D graphics support to a coming version of its widely used browser plug-in. Read more »

Apple sits on a shaky throne

It's hard to remember the iPhone without the App Store. When the App Store turns two years old on Saturday, it will still stand as the undisputed king of the consumer mobile-applications world. Read more »

What's the future for Adobe's 64-bit Flash?

Windows, Mac OS X and Linux 64-bit versions are now in widespread use, and software for the operating systems is following suit. So it may seem a bit backward that Adobe withdrew its only 64-bit version of Flash Player. Read more »

Google: next Android to support Adobe Flash

The lead engineer behind Android has said that support for Adobe Systems' Flash technology will appear in the next version of Google's mobile phone operating system. Read more »

Going beyond Flash, Adobe shows off web tech

Sure, Adobe Systems spends a lot of effort developing and promoting its Flash technology. And sure, a lot of the new "Open Web" technologies are a competitive threat to Flash. Read more »

Microsoft IE9 preview released

Microsoft released what it's calling the Internet Explorer 9 Platform Preview at its Mix conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, a prototype that's designed to show off the company's effort to improve how the browser deals with the web as it exists today and support for new web technologies that are coming right now. Read more »

IE6 and 7 hit by zero-day bug

A zero-day exploit that targets a vulnerability in Internet Explorer 6 and 7 has been published. Read more »

New Google Web Toolkit reveals web-app speed

Just as Microsoft advanced the state of the art for programming on Windows, Google is trying to do the same with web-based software. Its latest move: the release of Google Web Toolkit 2.0. Read more »

Mozilla issues first Firefox 3.6 alpha version

Mozilla has released the first alpha version of Firefox 3.6, a browser with speed improvements and new features the organisation hopes to finalise faster than its predecessor. Read more »

Google debuts Chrome for Mac, Linux

Google released Chrome for Mac OS X and Linux on Thursday, but only in rough developer preview versions that the company warns are works in progress. Read more »

Features (86)

Get more accessible with CSS

Poorly written HTML may render sites inaccessible to some visitors. Find out how separating presentation from content with CSS can help. Read more »

How do CSS editors TopStyle and Style Master stack up?

Two external cascading style sheet (CSS) editors--Style Master and TopStyle--can decrease your coding time. But which product should you choose? Find out which one offers the most functionality for the best price. Read more »

A print alternative without the extra work

Providing printer-friendly versions of your content used to mean creating a separate copy of the content designed specifically for the print device. Thanks to cascading style sheets, there's a better way. 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 »

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 »

Text-size switching with PHP and CSS

This tutorial will show you how to add such a text size switcher to your Web pages using PHP and CSS. Read more »

Creating a pure CSS horizontal navigation bar

Now that tables are no longer recommended for positioning any nontabular page content, many Web authors are looking for ways to create navigation bars using structural XHTML markup and CSS formatting. Read more »

Superimpose text over an image by using CSS-styled text

In this article Michael Meadhra shows you how to use CSS to keep the text and image separate to achieve a photo with superimposed text. Read more »

Does CSS provide higher ROI than straight HTML?

In this article developer Shawn Morton, revisits the issue of HTML vs. CSS by performing an ROI analysis. Read more »

Prevent the flash of unstyled content

Have you ever seen a brief glimpse of unstyled text appear as a CSS-styled Web page loads in the browser window? Our usability expert Michael Meadhra shows you how to avoid this little quirk. Read more »

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Design websites with Dreamweaver CS3 layouts

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Dreamweaver CS3 allows you to accelerate your Web design process by providing 32 sample CSS layouts. Read more »

Opera's MAMA offers search to web developers

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- Opera has created a new search engine letting web developers discover how web pages are structured. Read more »

What's new in CSS 3?

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney on Friday, Jina Bolton presented "Creating Sexy Style Sheets", which gave an insight into some of the new features in CSS 3. Read more »

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