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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 »
Mozilla takes on YouTube video choice
A disagreement between Google and Mozilla is making a once-obscure debate into a real issue for those who watch web video or host it on their own sites. Read more »
Microsoft web-graphics move signals IE ambitions
In a new sign of Microsoft's ambitions to make Internet Explorer more competitive with rival browsers, the company said on Tuesday it's joining a group overseeing a graphics format that offers some advantages for today's web. Read more »
Microsoft releases Silverlight 4 beta
Microsoft's fourth-generation answer to Adobe Flash, Silverlight 4, was released overnight at the software giant's 2009 Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Read more »
Google patches severe Chrome vulnerabilities
Google has fixed two high-severity vulnerabilities in the stable version of its Chrome browser that could have let an attacker remotely take over a person's computer. Read more »
Google Chrome gets HTML video support
Google has begun supporting a new HTML feature to show video in its Chrome browser as an alternative to Adobe Systems' much more widely used Flash, but the technology overall remains rough around the edges. Read more »
Why I switched from Firefox to Chrome
Sorry if it sounds like I'm drinking the Google Kool-Aid here, but I have switched from Mozilla Firefox to Google Chrome as my default browser for the very reason Google's executives said we should: speed. Read more »
Mozilla's Geode brings geographic Web to Firefox
Mozilla Labs plans to announce a plug-in called Geode on Tuesday that gives the Firefox Web browser a better ability to understand and use geographic information on the web. Read more »
Microsoft fixes eight critical flaws with four patches
Microsoft on Tuesday released its September 2008 security bulletin summary.The four bulletins concern Windows GDI+, Windows Media Player, and Microsoft Office OneNote. All are rated critical by Microsoft. There is no cumulative patch for Internet Explorer this month. Read more »
ASCII: An artful way around spam filters
An old computer art form is making a comeback as a newer way to evade spam filters. Read more »
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Using a hybrid XSLT solution to send an email
Edmond Woychowsky recounts how a hybrid XSLT solution that he used recently reminds him of his college days. Read more »
10 Linux file managers worth checking out
If you've never given your file manager much thought, maybe it's time to look at the wide range of features offered by Linux file management tools. Read more »
An epitaph for the Web standard, XHTML 2
XHTML 2, a technology intended to build a more powerful Web from the ground up, met a quiet end last week, spotlighting the difficulties of standardisation in a fast-moving Internet. Introduced in 2002, XHTML 2 was a centerpiece of standards work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Read more »
Hapax's Amplify makes it easy to extract meaning from text
We put Hapax's Amplify, a lightweight natural language processing web service, through its paces. Here's what we think of this relatively new product. Read more »
Maintaining state in ASP.NET: Know your options
Maintaining state is a problem that all Web developers face regardless of the platform. ASP.NET adds four options on top of the standard approaches on the Web. This article drills down on these options. Read more »
Implementing the Soundex function in C#
For years Microsoft SQL Server has provided developers with a method called Soundex that is used to retrieve an encoded string. Words that sound alike have similar encodings, so you can use this functionality to provide some flexibility in searches. This article shows how to implement Soundex completely in C# without having to use the SQL function. Read more »
Download files over the Web with .NET's WebClient class
The System.Net namespace includes the WebClient class for uploading and downloading files via HTTP. You can copy or read files with only a few lines of code. Read more »
Process multimedia with the Java Media Framework API
The Java Media Framework (JMF) API allows developers to process media in many different ways. It deals with real-time multimedia presentations and effects processing. Read more »
What is cross-site scripting?
Cross-site scripting, also known as "XSS," is a class of security exploit that has gotten a fair bit of attention in the last few years. This article explains what it is and where the dangers lie. Read more »
Send XML documents online with SAAJ
SOAP with Attachments API for Java (SAAJ) provides a standard way to send XML documents over the Internet from the Java platform. SAAJ enables you to produce and consume messages conforming to the SOAP 1.1 and 1.2 specifications and SOAP with Attachments note. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 preview
-- This week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
IE9's H.264 vote killed Ogg
-- In a split decision by the judges, the winner of the W3C/WHATWG video codec consensus is H.264, taking home the future of video playback on the internet while loser Ogg goes home with nothing but thoughts of what might have been. Read more »
Adobe release H.264 video support for Flash player
-- In a bid to stay relevant in the world of high definition video Adobe's new Flash player has officially shipped with the H.264 video standard included. Read more »
Adobe's MAX Conference 2007, Day One Keynote
-- The big event of a Flex, Flash or ColdFusion developer's year is Adobe's annual conference held this year in Chicago. Builder AU's Andrew Muller attended this year and reports on the first day's opening. Read more »
Live Blog: MIX 07 Keynote
-- Live blog from the MIX 07 Keynote. Will we see an announcement regarding Silverlight? It certainly appears so. Read more »
Try… Catch… Win!
-- As a .NET developer, there are a few “best practices” that you should always consider. And one of the biggest is that every application you write should include error trapping to trap critical and non-critical errors that may occur. And the .NET framework makes it easy to use “Try… Catch” statements to intercept any errors that occur and allow you to handle the exception. Read more »
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Microsoft shows off IE9 previewThis week, highlights from Microsoft's MIX10 conference and more in the Roundup. Read more »
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Google launches Apps Marketplace
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