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Ex-Novell CTO takes web leadership post

The World Wide Web Consortium has a new leader who wants to streamline some of the group's standardisation efforts and beef up its ties with outside programmers. Read more »

HTML groups tackle webcam support

The groups responsible for standardising the language used to build websites have begun tackling technology to provide a direct interface to webcams. 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 »

Adobe tries keeping Flash in web vanguard

There's a major movement afoot to rebuild the web as a foundation for interactive applications. But Adobe Systems, whose Flash technology already plays that role as a nearly ubiquitous browser plug-in, believes its technology will stay a step ahead of the game. Read more »

Microsoft joins HTML 5 standard fray in earnest

After leaving much of the creation of a new version of HTML to Apple, Google, Opera and Mozilla, Microsoft has begun sinking its teeth into the web standard. 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 »

Adobe gives Flash a programming boost

On Monday Adobe Systems released beta versions of three programming projects for producing online applications that run in its Flash Player, software that's widely used but also under competitive threat from other web technologies. Read more »

Opera: Web standards could eclipse Flash

The next revision of the HTML web language will make Adobe's Flash technology largely redundant, according to the chief executive of browser company Opera. Read more »

Chrome extensions draw near, but advanced HTML 5 features recede

A new developer version of Chrome takes some significant strides to adding the top-requested feature -- the ability to accommodate extensions that customise what Google's browser can do -- but programmers also pushed back support for a collection of significant advanced web features. Read more »

Microsoft introduces new Geneva beta

Microsoft introduced the second beta of its Geneva identity-management server platform on Monday, with new features including compatibility with SharePoint 2007 and Microsoft Federation Gateway. Read more »

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Explore the Semantic Web's standards and real-world applications

Here's an overview of the Semantic Web standards RDF and SPARQL and a look at two real-world applications that have emerged from the Semantic Web concept. Read more »

FluidHTML seeks to bridge web programming divide

Today's web programmers face a big choice when it comes to fancier aspects of their sites: HTML or Flash? One start-up hopes it can bridge the gap with a technology called FluidHTML. 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 »

How JavaScript became a browser-war battleground

After lurking inconspicuously within the code of websites for more than a decade, JavaScript has emerged to become a key battleground in a second era of web-browser wars. Read more »

Visualise data with new Microsoft controls

If you ever work on projects that require charting functionality, you'll want to check out the Microsoft Chart Controls for .NET 3.5. This article explains how to get and use this new control. Read more »

Introducing Flash Catalyst

At MAX 2008, Adobe demonstrated and distributed to attendees a preview release of Flash Catalyst, the Rich Internet Application (RIA) interaction design tool formerly known as Thermo. Read more »

Get started with Web vector graphics

At the Web Directions South conference in Sydney, Dmitry Baranovskiy presented "Web Vector Graphics", giving an overview of the models available for creating vector graphics on the Web and tools to make them render correctly in all browsers. Read more »

Flash, HTML, AJAX: Which will win the Web app war?

The days when Web pages were static collections of text and graphics are long past. But as the Web matures, there's a fierce competition over which technology will propel it into a medium for rich, interactive applications. Read more »

Why traditionalists should take Web developers seriously

There used to be a sharp distinction between application developers and Web developers. This made sense when technologies such as Perl/CGI, classic ASP, standard JSP, and PHP ruled the Web development roost. But this distinction is becoming less relevant. Read more »

Render SQL*Plus output in HTML

SQL*Plus has traditionally been thought of as a plain text SQL query tool. But since Oracle 8i, it has also had the capability to render its output using HTML. Read more »

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Chrome gets extensions

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- In this week's Roundup we look at the release of Chrome for Mac and Linux and its support for extensions, a security flaw in Safari, popularity of SaaS and more. Read more »

W3C releases mobileOK

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- W3C has released mobileOK checker, an open source tool for checking the suitability of websites for mobile devices. Read more »

Google Earth brings virtual tourism to iPhone

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- Google already has customised some of its websites for display on the iPhone, but now the company also dived headlong onto Apple's highly regarded mobile phone with a full-fledge application, a handheld version of its Google Earth geographical software. Read more »

Q&A with EditMe: A wiki for non-geeks

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Finally, a wiki CMS solution that you can safely give to your clients to use. But sshhhh... don't call it a wiki... Read more »

Spry Game

Lana Kovacevic [blogs:webanatomy] -- At this year's Adobe WebDU conference in Sydney, Greg Rewis gave a presentation on Spry 1.6, the AJAX framework. Read more »

Railo to go open source with JBoss

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Railo have announced they will be open sourcing their alternative engine for the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML). Read more »

DataPortability has big names on board, but a long road ahead

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- There's been plenty of talk about data portability over the past few weeks, what with Facebook taking issue with a Plaxo script that imported user data from one social network to the other. But the news has mostly dealt with tiffing and squabbling -- until now. Read more »

Google: Don't give up on OpenSocial

Staff [blogs:syslog] -- When Google unveiled its OpenSocial developer initiative at the end of October, observers hailed it as the future of the social Web. But is the search king already too late to the party? Read more »

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