Microsoft, if you had read my last few post you’ll know they are dancing, has announced the launch of the first beta release of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8. More support for semantic web structures, therefore, web developers will find this beta version very useful especially if they want to keep up with latest technologies and weeding out the fads. Grab the browser here and add more tests in your testing environment arsenal!
A post in phpguru got my attention after showing the statistics from TheCounter. IE6 is now overtaken by IE7 and both browsers are used by 78% of connected computers. That’s an astonishing penetration percentage for Microsoft. I’m sure they are dancing in their office right now!
Finally Apple has released its long awaited iPhone SDK. You can download it from here. Unfortunately, contrary to other blogs that reported the announcement, the SDK is not free even though you are using it for nonprofit projects. That just great Apple… why not suck all our credits in our bank account?!
The MIX08 conference has ended and now you can see all the sessions online for free. If you are one of those geeks out there who feel sad missing MIX08 stop that feeling right now! Watch all sessions for free online here.
YouTube is experimenting HD video casting in addition to the standard video we are watching in YouTube. To watch an HD version of any video you will have to add “&fmt=6” without the double-quotation at the end of the URL.
I have heard recently that Angelina Jolie recently revealed that she doesn’t know how to turn on a computer although she acts as the famous Lara Croft, an adventurer and sadly a computer hacker.
Anyway, I found out this great article on how to make a good web design. The article also explains how users interact with different web site design styles and it also gives 10 Principles of Effective Web Design… I don’t really have time to write more about it :p
I’m working on a web site using JSP and I found this great article that should be helpful for JSP programmers.
Typical Web applications require the use of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript, together with a server-side framework, such as JavaServer Faces (JSF). CSS lets you change the visual characteristics of Web components within Ajax and other applications so they can have a pleasant and distinctive look. In the first installment of this two-part series, find out how to use the CSS-related attributes of standard JSF components. In addition, learn how to create a custom JSF component that sets the default styles of nested components, making it very easy to ensure a consistent look for all pages of your Web application. You can also use this technique to programmatically set other component attributes, as you’ll see in Part 2, which will show how to make JSF forms more dynamic using JavaScript.
Adobe has announced the availability of Flex 3 and AIR 1.0 for public. With the release of AIR runtime, web technologies has now moved ahead one big step out of the browser into users desktop. Now you can deploy web technologies such as Flash and Ajax into desktop environment that runs across operating systems.
Adobe has also launched Open Source Site, and according to Adobe “This site presents the definitive view into open source activities at Adobe, including details regarding projects that Adobe participates in and hosts”.
And a great news at least for me, if you are a student or a faculty employment you can get a free version of Adobe Flex Builder 3 Pro here.
