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Responsive Web Design
It all started with "Responsive Web Design", an article by Ethan Marcotte on A List Apart. Essentially, the article proposed addressing the ever-changing landscape of devices, browsers, screen sizes and orientations by creating flexible, fluid and adaptive Web sites. Instead of responding to today’s needs for a desktop, Web version adapted to the most common screen resolution, along with a particular mobile version (often specific to a single mobile device), the idea is to approach the issue the other way around: use flexible and fluid layouts that adapt to almost any screen. Read More.
Browser and Feature Detection: Make Your Website Look Great Everywhere
When you’re building a web site, you want it to look great in any browser…and ideally, it should look great for a long time, even in future versions of the browsers. I’ve pulled together some hints, tips and best practices that will help your sites look their best. Read More.
Hive and Hadoop for Data Analytics on Large Web Logs
Developers can use Apache Hive and Hadoop for data analytics on large web logs, analyzing users' browsing patterns and behavior. Read More.
Apache Updates the Tomcat Server for Cloud Computing
The open source foundation has launched TomEE v1.0. Read More.
Display Images in Black & White Using the HTML5 Canvas
The HTML5 canvas is a bitmap element for rendering graphics, drawings, and images on the fly using JavaScript. The canvas 2D API contains an arsenal of functions that give you the ability to draw pretty much anything you like on the canvas and there is a lot to be said about black & white photography. It can capture images in a way that color simply can't. If you want to display images in black and white, but don't want to mess with your original color photos, then this is the ideal way to go about it. Read on! Read More.
Recent Articles
What Web Developers Have Learned in the Past 10 Years
IE6 shipped more than 10 years ago, but its non-standard implementation of the shifting standards of 2001 still haunts today's developers. As the Web shifts to HTML5, and new versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome debut, have we learned the lessons of IE6? Read More.
Crank Up the Volume with HTML5 Music
With HTML5, music is making a comeback on the Web. In this tutorial we will show you how to create amazing music experiences for visitors to your website--and it's as easy as inserting an image. Read More.
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