Mozilla Labs has announced the release of JetPack 0.8, an update to its new, lightweight extensions framework for Firefox. Jetpack lets people use common web tools like HTML, CSS and JavaScript to build Firefox add-ons. The latest release of JetPack brings two new APIs in the fold; the Toolbar API, which lets JetPack developers place custom [...]
Ian Hickson, head of one of the standards groups charged with creating HTML5, caused quite a stir over the weekend when he alleged that Adobe was trying to block HTML5. Adobe quickly denied the charge, but not quickly enough for the open web evangelists to grab their pitchforks and take to blogs in anger. After all, [...]
Bit.ly recently unveiled a new service, Bit.ly Pro, which makes it very simple to host your own custom-branded short URL. The basic Bit.ly Pro service, which is in the free beta stage for now, allows you to set up a short domain and then point that domain to the Bit.ly servers. From there Bit.ly Pro works [...]
Want to see all your open Firefox tabs on your iPhone? There may soon be an app for that. There’s already a demo app and a code library that will let someone build an app for that, thanks to Mozilla’s recent efforts to extend Weave, its syncing tool for Firefox, to devices like the [...]
He waited a few days to make his point, but Adobe’s head software honcho has thrown a bucket of water onto the “Death of Flash” fire. In a blog post Tuesday, Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch responded to Apple’s recent criticisms of the Flash platform and warned that a switch to HTML5 would throw users and content [...]
We were half-expecting Twitter to break entirely when Steve Jobs took the stage Wednesday morning to announce the new Apple iPad. It was a little slow, but it didn’t break. The New York Times’ Labs website was tracking all Apple-related Tweets in real time during the event. A screenshot is shown above — a simple page [...]
Popular Ajax library jQuery is celebrating its fourth birthday with a major new release — JQuery 1.4. JQuery has long had a devoted following among interface designers. Proponents tout its speed and lightweight structure which make it easy to integrate complex effects with only a few lines of code. Google, Microsoft, Amazon and independent web developers [...]
Google Translate has rolled a out several new features, and one of them lets you hear your translated English text spoken by a computerized voice. For maximum cross-browser compatibility, Google Translate embeds text-to-speech mp3s using Flash. However, web developer Weston Ruter has already figured out how to grab the audio files for use on any webpage [...]
MySpace has thrown open its doors to app developers, giving them real time access to all MySpace users’ activities via a new suite of APIs. Now, every time Jenny friends somebody, posts a photo or writes a blog post, you’ll be able to make that notification show up in your app mere seconds after it happens. The [...]
Yahoo is integrating Facebook Connect across all of its properties, the company has announced. A definite timetable hasn’t yet been made public, but Yahoo stated in a blog post Wednesday that it intends to roll Facebook Connect into its properties worldwide, so we should expect the services to be activated incrementally. [Update] Yahoo says, “The integration [...]