Development News & Trends
Royalty Free WebM Codec Could Give HTML5 Video and Flash a Boost
The WebM open web media project continues to gain steam and may someday represent a single video format for both HTML5 and Adob... 0 Comments | Read More »
Use Images, Shading to Add Visual Depth
In a fast growing trend, web designers are making clever use of images to add depth and interest to the two-dimensional web. A... 0 Comments | Read More »
Performance Testing 7 Ecommerce Platforms
In April, Google announced that page performance was now a factor in search engine rank. Make no mistake, Google is still giv... 4 Comments | Read More »
Facebook's Open Graph: Could It Be the End of the Walled Garden?
Facebook’s recent announcement of Open Graph, a new capability allowing Facebook’s marketing partners to share user preferences... 0 Comments | Read More »
Maybe Touchscreens Won't Kill Hovering After All
When Apple's CEO, Steve Jobs, introduced the iPad earlier this year, he opened the door for a frenzy of activity and consumer d... 0 Comments | Read More »
"Are You Human" Tests Go To the Dogs, and Cats
A new "are you human" test uses easily discernable photographs to protect comments and product reviews from eager spam bots, of... 0 Comments | Read More »
April 2010 Top Ten: The Month's Most Popular Posts
Magento, Facebook, Adobe, and inspirational showcases were among the most read about topics on Ecommerce Developer in April 201... 2 Comments | Read More »
Web Development's Best April Fool's Day Pranks 2010
Yesterday was April Fool's day, the one international holiday on which it is okay to lie, cheat, and insult, so long as you end... 0 Comments | Read More »
Stop Supporting IE6
Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE) 6 is more than ten years old. It suffers from numerous security holes, and forces web design... 1 Comment | Read More »
Mobile Retail: Cutting Edge Today, Commonplace Tomorrow
Editor's Note: This article was originally published by Keynote Systems, a mobile communications and Internet testing firm, for... 1 Comment | Read More »
Mobile Users are Either Repetitive, Bored or In A Hurry
Mobile phones and mobile Internet devices are becoming increasingly popular. As such, we need to collectively re-think how we a... 0 Comments | Read More »
February Top Ten: The Most Popular Posts
February 2010 was a short month—just 28 days—but there was still plenty of great content here on Ecommerce Developer. We covere... 0 Comments | Read More »
Google Chrome Frame Moves to HTTP Header Invocation
Google announced this week that its Chrome Frame solution for Internet Explorer would move away from meta tag invocation in fav... 0 Comments | Read More »
Mobile Internet Devices to Drive More Fluid Designs
As more mobile Internet devices become available, web designers and developers may turn to fluid designs and controls to compen... 0 Comments | Read More »
Where Progressive Enhancement Meets Graceful Degradation
Two important web development philosophies are often at odds when it comes to using new or advanced technologies and supporting... 0 Comments | Read More »
December Top 10: The Posts You Don't Want to Miss
The year is coming to a close and—with luck—you'll leave work early, head to the local pub, and get ready to ring in the new ye... 0 Comments | Read More »
No Public Beta for Flash Professional CS5
Adobe announced that it will not be releasing a public beta of the highly anticipated Flash Professional CS5, as had been previ... 0 Comments | Read More »
Google Speaks to Developers at I/O 2010
Google's largest developer event, Google I/O, returns to San Francisco in 2010, with the promise of giving web developers a gli... 0 Comments | Read More »
Google and Facebook Introduce Short URL Services
Google and Facebook both introduced URL shortening services, similar to bit.ly and TinyURL, this week. These new shortening ser... 0 Comments | Read More »
W3C Seeks CEO
The Internet’s leading collaborative open standards organization, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is seeking a new chief e... 0 Comments | Read More »
