Firefox Lends IE Hand for Next Gen HTML
Firefox and IE displaying canvas graphics elements side by side. Picture courtesy Vladimir Vukicevic’s blog According to Mozilla engineer Vladimir Vukicevic, Internet Explorer isn’t adapting to the...
View ArticleSilverlight Update Aims for Greater Adoption Through Developers
Microsoft announced a new version of Silverlight Monday. The upgrade allows for more robust rich media experiences using the embedded Silverlight rich media plugin in most browsers. The update has some...
View ArticleMicrosoft: Apple Not Interested in Silverlight, Flash for iPhone
According to Microsoft’s latest Silverlight announcement, Apple shows little to no interest in installing either Silverlight or Adobe Flash on its iPhones. Thanks to the open source nature of Google’s...
View ArticleBing Maps Gets a Developer SDK
Microsoft may be a few lengths back in the race to win the online mapping prize, but you can never count Redmond out. The company released an SDK for Bing Maps on Monday, allowing developers to create...
View ArticleFirefox Update Gives Flash 45 Seconds, Then Pulls the Plug
Mozilla has released Firefox 3.6.6, an incremental update which tweaks the way the browser handles misbehaving plug-ins, giving Flash and other plug-ins 45 seconds to respond, or else get shut down....
View ArticleMicrosoft Adds OpenStreetMap Layer to Bing Maps
You can now turn on a special layer in Bing Maps that displays maps from OpenStreetMap, Microsoft has announced. OpenStreetMap is an open source mapping project that keeps an editable map of the...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s Sticky Position: Silverlight or HTML5?
Microsoft is deeply invested in two key technologies for building web apps: its Silverlight runtime, which requires a plug-in to work in web browsers, and HTML5, which has many of the same key...
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