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25 SxSW 2010 Panels You Can't Afford To MissTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 10:44AMLast year I attended South By Southwest for the first time. It's a tech/music/film conference in Austin, Tx, and it's the highlight of my year. If you are attending, or even if you aren't, here are the top 25 panels that jumped out at me for this year's conference: Long Distance UX - http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/580 Collaboration is key to the UX process, but it ...

Firefox's Next JavaScript Engine Will Borrow from WebKit [Firefox]Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 9:14AM# firefox Mozilla's home-brewed JavaScript engine for its Firefox browsers, TraceMonkey, has impressed us before , but in the raw benchmark game, it's starting to fall behind its competitors . To up its game, Firefox's developers are building a new engine, dubbed JägerMonkey . Ars Technica writes that the new compiler uses some open-source WebKit code to get the job done, including parts of ...

Open source webdesktopmobile kit refreshes for iPhone, AndroidMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 4:07PMAppcelerator appcelerates Appcelerator has taken the beta tag off its open source Titanium development kit , a means of building native desktop and mobile applications using traditional web-development tools such as JavaScript, Python, Ruby on Rails, html and CSS.… The power of collaboration within unified communications

Windows Browser Ballot Screen Is Working â Up to a PointMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 2:09PMSince the start of March, some European versions of Microsoft Windows have been delivered with a so-called “browser ballot screen,” a screen designed to give users a choice of 12 web browsers instead of having Microsoft’s Internet Explorer forced on them.

Gearing Up to Build an iPad App? Consider a Mobile Web App FirstMonday, March 8, 2010 @ 9:05AMThe iPad is being heralded as both a savior and enslaver for newspapers. It may finally provide the kind of futuristic, multimedia newspaper experience so often depicted in sci-fi.

What to expect from HTML 5Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 8:30AMAmong Web developers, anticipation is mounting for HTML 5, the overhaul of the Web markup language currently under way at the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C). For many, the revamping is long overdue. HTML hasn't had a proper upgrade in more than a decade. In fact, the last markup language to win W3C Recommendation status -- the final stage of the Web standards process -- was XHTML 1.1 in 2001.

Explore browsers beyond 'e'Monday, March 8, 2010 @ 1:39AMFor all those who never thought internet was more than clicking on that 'e', here are some browsers that you might have never heard of but millions of net surfers swear by: Flock

Explore browsers beyond 'e'Sunday, March 7, 2010 @ 12:44PMIn the days leading up to the unveiling of Apple’s impossibly hyped iPad, Mozilla quietly launched the Firefox 3.6 and claimed a whopping 20 per cent speed gain over its previous 3.5 version. Three days later, Google also unveiled its Chrome 5.0 browser.

Week in Microsoft: browser ballot arrives, to go global?Saturday, March 6, 2010 @ 9:24AMLet's look back at the week that was in Microsoft news. Here were the top stories: Coding error leads to uneven EU browser ballot distribution : The distribution of browser choices on the EU browser ballot released this month to Windows users is uneven. Internet Explorer shows up in the right-most position 50 percent of the time for current IE users, an outcome that's due to Microsoft attempting ...