• How to learn to code for free

  In days gone by, all you needed to make a website was a Geocities account and some basic knowledge of HTML. Maybe you'd throw in a bit of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) if you wanted to get fancy. Times have changed, though, and now people build websites using at least one advanced coding language. Programming is a noble pursuit, but if you want to build apps and services for the Web, you need to learn one of these popular languages.

  By David Daw | 18 April, 2012 22:15

  Tags: html 5, html authoring, internet, web, web services

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  Cloud9 IDE looks polished, feels unfinished

  JavaScript is one of the most common scripting languages in the world. In fact, you're almost certainly using it right now, even if you're unaware of the fact. Every modern desktop and mobile Web browser supports JavaScript, and it's used in just about every current website. Cloud9 IDE is a Web-based development environment aimed at making it easier to develop JavaScript-based Web applications. It lives in the cloud, so you need only a Web browser to use it.

  By Erez Zukerman | 12 November, 2011 08:18

  Tags: application development, html authoring, Java & JavaScript, mozilla, software

• Google aims to mobilize your website with GoMo

  Despite explosive growth in smartphone usage, many businesses still have a website that isn't optimized to fit on a small mobile screen. If a potential customer can't navigate your store's site from a handset, there's a good chance they'll walk over to the shop of your competitor that has a mobile-ready site.

  By Angela West | 03 November, 2011 10:44

  Tags: Google, html authoring, internet, mobile, Web-based Applications, web services

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  Google kills H.264 support in Chrome

  Your move Apple: Google announced that they are changing Chrome's support of HTML5 'video' to be, in Google's view, more friendly towards open development. The H.264 codec is being removed in favor of the Theora and VP8 video codecs as well as any higher quality, open codecs. The resources that were used on H.264 will instead be used in supporting these open technologies.

  By Armando Rodriguez | 12 January, 2011 10:50

  Tags: Apple, future technology, Google, Google Chrome, html authoring, internet, web

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  No HTML5 crown for IE9 yet, W3C says

  Following the flurry of reports early this week that Microsoft's Internet Explorer 9 had bested key competitors in the browser arena on early HTML5 compatibility tests, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has cautioned that the results of those tests are far too preliminary to form any kind of basis for conclusions.

  By Katherine Noyes | 05 November, 2010 06:05

  Tags: applications, browsers, html authoring, internet, internet explorer, Microsoft, software, World Wide Web Consortium

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  HTML5 and security on the new web

  There are lots of changes happening to the key technologies that power the web. The new version of HTML, the dominant web language, offers impressive enhancements for rich web applications. But as HTML5 comes into greater use we’ll see new security issues arise. It’s typical for a new technology to have defects and pitfalls. And although the standard is still being defined, it's already being implemented. So how does HTML5 stand up to security scrutiny?