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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 »

Microsoft hints at general plan for IE8

Microsoft will continue to prioritise security and ease-of-use in the forthcoming Internet Explorer 8 and will seek to improve Web development with current standards compatibility, according to the software giant. Read more »

Office 2007: FrontPage is out, blogging is in

Don't go looking for FrontPage in the just-released Beta 2 edition of Office 2007. Microsoft has axed its 10-year-old Web site authoring software. Read more »

Making the Web fit for mobile

The World Wide Web Consortium last week published a first public working draft of Device Independent Authoring Language, which is aimed at making it easy to present content on a wide variety of mobile devices. Read more »

Web word processor adds PDF conversion

Web-based word processor Writely can now convert documents to the Rich Text Format (RTF) and Adobe PDF standards, adding to recent new features like OpenDocument support. Read more »

Writely warms to OpenDocument

The company behind Web-based word processor Writely announced on Monday that it will handle documents saved in the OpenDocument format. Read more »

IBM compounds its XML toolset

A new addition to the Emerging Technologies Toolkit means disparate XML technologies can now be used together. Read more »

Reversal: Next IE update divorced from Windows

Reversing a longstanding Microsoft policy, Bill Gates said on Tuesday that the company will ship an update to its browser separately from the next version of Windows. Read more »

Opera's browser finds its voice

Norway-based Opera is adding voice control to its eponymous browser, allowing users to browse the Web by talking to their PC and have the contents of Web sites read back to them. 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 »

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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 »

Can you be a self-respecting Web developer without knowing HTML?

I can't accept a so-called Web developer who doesn't fully understand the technology used to create their applications. Do you think a Web developer is doomed if he doesn't know HTML? Read more »

HTML 5: A change in course... straight for the iceberg

The W3C recently released a working draft specification for HTML 5. In its current iteration, this is the worst specification I have ever read. Read more »

Parse XML with the StAX Java API

Streaming API for XML (StAX) is an API that allows you to read and write XML documents in Java. StAX is a parser independent, pure Java API based on interfaces that can be implemented by multiple parsers. 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 »

Add meaning to Web pages with microformats

A technology that has gathered steam the past couple years is microformats. Microformats allow you to add context to existing information contained within a Web page. Read more »

When will Microsoft fully embrace Web standards?

I recently revisited the issue of using Web standards when working with Microsoft SharePoint 2007 and Outlook 2007. The products' lack of adherence to Web standards was surprising given the advancements incorporated in Internet Explorer 7. Read more »

Ensure your Web site displays properly with character encoding

This column examines why developers use character encoding for Web pages, outlines the character encoding options, and offers guidance on how to choose a character encoding. Read more »

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Spry: Standards, Dreamweaver & the future

We caught up with Scott Fegette, technical product manager for Dreamweaver to discuss the ins and outs of the upcoming Spry release. Read more »

The spider's Web of CSS

Finishing up our Web Directions South build up, we talk to Andy Clarke, Web designer, presenter and invited expert to the W3C's CSS working group. Andy gave us the low down on standards, the new way of designing Web sites and the problem with Web 2.0. Read more »

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Blog (3)

Aussie Web design awards open

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- Looking for recognition of your team's hot design skills? The McFarlane Prize is one of Australia's most premier industry awards for Web designers and is open for nominations until August 31. Read more »

And the crowd goes wild

Chris Duckett [blogs:betaliving] -- In the wash-up of the iPhone announcement, there has been a lack of analysis by way of wrestling metaphors. I seek to fill this void by thinking about it in terms of the browser war. Read more »

Here's to the next step!

Brendon Chase [blogs:codemonkeybusiness] -- By now you can probably see the new look Builder AU Web site. Not bad, don't you think? Read more »

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