New Features to come in Microsoft’s latest web browser IE9. To list a few:
-Support for a vast range of HTML 5 Specs
-Scalable Vector Graphics
-XHTML 5 Video & Audio (included the growing standard H.264/MPEG4 & MP3/AAC codecs)
-Cascading Style Sheets (CSS v3)
-XHTML Parsing
…And many more
Besides being an expert in HTML and CSS, as a web developer/designer utilizing all of elements below will ensure you stand up above the rest!
- Flash (Actionscript can be a very powerful tool)
- Site Validation (xHTML)
- Javascript (DHTML & Ajax)
- jQuery & Web 2.0
- Serverside Scripting (PHP, PERL, CGI, mySQL, etc.)
- SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
- Content Writing
- CMS (Content Management Systems)
New Web 2.0 book available at Amazon.com, check it out.
Web 2.0 Architectures: What Entrepreneurs and Information Architects Need to Know
“Web 2.0 is more pervasive than ever, with business analysts and technologists struggling to comprehend the opportunity it represents. But what exactly is Web 2.0 — a marketing term or technical reality? This fascinating book finally puts substance behind the phenomenon by identifying the core patterns of Web 2.0, and by introducing an abstract model and reference architecture to help you take advantage of them. In Web 2.0 Architectures, authors Duane Nickull, Dion Hinchcliffe, and James Governor — who have 40 years of combined experience with technical specifications and industry trends — examine what makes successful Web 2.0 services such as Google AdSense, Flickr, BitTorrent, MySpace, Facebook, and Wikipedia tick. The result is a base of knowledge that developers, business people, futurists, and entrepreneurs can understand and use as a source of ideas and inspiration. This book reveals:
A Model for Web 2.0 — An in-depth look at how the classic Client-Server model has evolved into a more detailed Web 2.0 model. Web 2.0 Reference Architecture — A generic component view that helps decision-makers recognize basic patterns in existing Web 2.0 applications-patterns that can be repurposed for other commercial ventures. Specific Patterns of Web 2.0 — How Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Software as a Service pattern (SaaS), Participation-Collaboration Pattern, AJAX, Mashups, Rich User Experience (a.k.a. RIA), Collaborative Tagging Systems (Folksonomy), and more can be used in your technology business.”
- Excerpt taken directly from www.amazon.com
Internet Explorer 8 – good or bad for web development?
After upgrading from Internet Explorer 7 to IE8 I noticed a few things in a website that I was developing were not displaying correctly. Some of the items were being rendered incorrectly causing unwanted layout changes.
Although very annoying, there is an easy fix. Simple modify your <head> tag to display the following and your rendering issues in IE8 should be fixed. Simply add this to your <head> tag.
<meta http-equiv=“X-UA-Compatible” content=“IE=EmulateIE7″ />
Adding this block of code in with your other meta tag’s within your <head> block, will force IE8 to render all pages that have this block of code as it would in IE6 and IE7 thus eliminating your problem. As a note, if you notice the problem to be common thoughout your site, a suggestion would be to add it to your default “meta block” either in your template, or for those of you who are Dreamweaver users, simply locate the meta code block and have Dreamweaver do the work for you to propigate it throughout the entire site.
-SJ
Source: http://www.popularflashtutorials.net/?p=176
Tutorial is credited to the author from the source site listed above.
I just stumbled across this very interesting effect that is created with ActionScript through Flash. The author has provided the source file for download as well to study how it is put together.
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