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Mozilla: Web apps faster with Firefox 3.1

Firefox 3.1 will run many Web-based applications such as Gmail faster through incorporation of a feature called TraceMonkey that dramatically speeds up programs written in JavaScript, Mozilla said Friday. Read more »

Safari, Firefox charge towards a more colourful Web

Apple's Safari browser is able to display richer, more deeper colours than either Internet Explorer or Opera -- but Firefox is expected to catch up in the next month. Read more »

New Netscape embraces Firefox, IE

In the market for a hybrid engine? Netscape's new Web browser might be just the ticket. Read more »

ARM spearheads mobile Linux group

Yet another mobile Linux alliance has been formed, this time with a focus on devices with larger displays. Read more »

"Locked down" Linux dispenses Justice

The Victorian Department of Justice (DoJ) is understood to have deployed a secure, "locked-down" Linux environment across more than 100 desktops in state prisons. Read more »

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Developing an HTML-formatted mail message

The task of including HTML in e-mail is not so simple as it seems, Tony Patton runs through some tips. Read more »

Location-based publishing and services

Geocoded content is transforming our Web. By adding geographical coordinates (latitude and longitude) to our media, we can help others find it through location-based search engines and web maps. Read more »

Create rich interfaces with Microsoft Silverlight

Recognising an area of technology without a presence, Microsoft has thrown its considerable weight behind an initiative to make inroads in the area now dominated by Flash with its Silverlight product. Read more »

Starting with Spry

Spry is intended to be a way of easily implementing Ajax; designers with entry level HTML, CSS and JavaScript experience should find Spry an easy way to integrate content. Read more »

Data validation with JavaScript and regular expressions

Discover how regular expressions offer a simple and elegant way to manipulate text within JavaScript. Tony Patton also explores how JavaScript's regular expression simplifies data validation. Read more »

Develop WYSIWYG content management

Need to develop a Web-based What You See Is What You Get content manager? Here are a few options you might want to try. Read more »

Make the most of AJAX

AJAX has changed the way Web apps are developed and used. It allows for interactive Web pages and is on the cutting edge of current web trends. Read more »

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  • Staff Crying, mooning and leaving

    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 »

    -- posted by Staff

  • Brendon Chase Sun eye Web developers with Netbeans 6.5

    Despite the recent employment axe hitting Sun the company has pushed out a new release of its Netbeans open source IDE with an eye to appeal more to Web developers. Read more »

    -- posted by Brendon Chase

  • Renai LeMay BarCamp buzz: Let the hacking continue

    Attending last weekend's BarCamp in Sydney, it was hard to escape the conclusion that a certain "dot-com bust" flavour had seeped into the kool aid previously being drunk by Australia's web 2.0 and early stage start-up sector. Read more »

    -- posted by Renai LeMay

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