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I'm not sure many people really understand what is truly great about the Web and why it works. Most developers see the web as a technology platform and nothing more. HTML, Javascript, and CSS are s...

Learn how to create a tabbed content window using CSS and jQuery from scratch. If you don't know about jQuery yet, let me have the pleasure to introduce you to it. It's a very easy-to-use Javascrip...

Persistence, performance, rich APIs and increasing broadband connectivity are all likely to make a huge difference for this latest generation of browsers, and the quantum improvement of Javascript ...

Ubiquity, the open source add-on currently in alpha and being produced by the Mozilla team for Firefox, is intended to make such a command line possible. The idea behind ubiquity is to take advanta...

A friend of mine pointed out Disco, a map-reduce framework written in Erlang and using Python for writing the actual map and reduction functions. I haven't tried it just yet, but the concept is int...

Chrome represents a change in the way that Google is choosing to play the game, putting them on a far more equal footing with the other browser vendors, and asserting that, on the browser as on the...

Is Javascript and HTML the new BASIC? What does the average programmer need from Javascript 2? Is the web the new client-server model of computing? Javascript guru David Flanagan addresses these qu...

A long and contentious struggle came to an end this week as ECMA Technical Committee 39, responsible for the development and maintenance of ECMAscript (known universally everywhere else as Javascri...

The old client-server application versus client-only application debate is back on the Web, thanks to Ajax and RIA technologies. It's missing a long-forgotten third contender, however -- one which ...

Javascript: The Missing Manual from bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use Javascript in sophisticated ways — even if you have little or no programming experience. Once you the m...