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Web developer tool for Opera: Dragonfly

Thursday, 8. May 2008, 19:26:12

webdesign, css, HTML, webdevelopment ...

After Firefox has a lot of extensions for web development like ySlow, Web Developer, Firebug and the Internet Explorer has IEpro, Developer Toolbar and the Web Accessibility Toolbar now Opera brings Dragonfly to the front. An addon for web developers using the Opera browser. Since a while a Opera Web Developer toolbar made by the community members is available too, of course Dragonfly will add more features.

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Homer Simpson built in CSS

Friday, 2. May 2008, 13:52:38

the simpsons, xhtml, homer, css ...

Roman Cortes has built a graphic of Homer Simpson based on normal text elements and CSS. At the moment the server page is not answering so try the cached page of Google.

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Powerfull web development with Eclipse

Monday, 28. April 2008, 17:28:48

javascript, open source, eclipse, web development ...

If you like to use Eclipse for web development you should definetly try out Aptana Studio Community Edition. Aptana Studio Community Edition is really amazing and adds so much nice and cool features to Eclipse:
* A normal file tree
* FTP support
* AJAX development
* Validation
* Help and references
* additional plugins for Ruby, Adobe AIR and Php
A howto to add Aptana to your existing Eclipse is available too.
If you haven't Eclipse installed yet take as a base the Php Developer Tools (PDT).

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Web Form Design

Sunday, 27. April 2008, 17:39:52

webdesign, HTML, webdevelopment, mag

The Smashing Magazine adds a new showcase about web forms. Take look its inspiring!

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OpenLaszlo 4.0.11 Released

Friday, 4. April 2008, 19:47:47

ria, rich media, web development, HTML ...

Besides commercial solutions for rich media development there are strong open source solutions too. OpenLaszlo is such an premier open-source platform for rich internet applications for Flash and XHTML.
The 4.0.11 version ships wuth many bugfixes, you can download it here. The Project is still working on full support for Flash 9.

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CSS font matching: Windows, Mac and Linux

Saturday, 22. March 2008, 19:22:26

web development, css, websites, safari ...

I found several posts about font comparsion for web development and cascading stylesheets. But most are incomplete or didn't compare all three major systems Linux, MacOS X and Windows.
Based on my own experience and a list of websites (Linux font equivalents, Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 font list, MacOS X Safari, iPhone fonts and Microsoft products and fonts) i created my own list.
Most users have Windows installed and Microsoft has once startet a webfont project. So i use typical Windows fonts as the base of my list. Another rule of the selection was that the alternative font faces didn't have a larger width then the the original has:
* Arial,Helvetica,FreeSans,"Nimbus Sans L",sans-serif
* "Courier New",Courier,FreeMono,"Nimbus Mono L",monospace
* Georgia,"Bitstream Charter","Century Schoolbook L",Times,serif
* "Lucida Sans","Lucida Sans Unicode","Lucida Grande",Lucida,sans-serif
* "Lucida Console",Monaco,"DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono",monospace
* Palatino,"Palatino Linotype",Palladio,"URW Palladio L","Book Antiqua",Times,serif
* Tahoma,Geneva,"DejaVu Sans Condensed",sans-serif
* "Times New Roman",Times,"Nimbus Roman No9 L","FreeSerif",serif
* Verdana,"Bitstream Vera Sans","DejaVu Sans",Geneva,sans-serif

Some newer Vista fonts are still uncompared. An update will follow soon

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IEs 4 Linux 2.99.0.1

Monday, 11. February 2008, 21:12:21

microsoft, internet explorer, web development, preview ...

IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux.
Many people getting display problems when using IEs4Linux with recent wine versions (>=0.9.52), the IE toolbar disappear and others bugs happens. For that problem a little emergency release is now available.

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New gEdit plugins

Monday, 17. December 2007, 22:05:00

plugins, editor, HTML, xml ...

For web development I use gEdit which looks in the first as a simple editor but by activating and installing plugins it will be a very cool code machine.
The number of plugins is growing well (my self wrote 3 plugins too) and from time to time i take a look at the plugins list. These days i found two new plugins that are really helpful:
XML Helper could be better named in "Tag Complement". By a key stroke (i like the old typical HomeSite/ PSPad key Ctrl+, and Ctrl+.) it write all opening or closing tags for you.
Split View will split your code window vertical or hoizontal.

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IEs 4 Linux 2.99

Sunday, 16. December 2007, 22:07:10

internet explorer, mac, web development, linux ...

IEs 4 Linux brings the Internet Explorer 5,6 and 7 for web developers to Linux. A while it seems nothing happens on the IEs 4 Linux project and so i didn't visit it a longer time. But the development wasn't dead and they released the version 2.99 that brings a lot of improvements and better support for Internet Explorer 7. This is the last 2.x release and we can look forward for version 3.
The installer isn't longer just a shell script it starts now with a GUI and that's really cool! If you like to install the IE 7 you have to click at the "Advanced" button.
Mike Kronenberg started last porting IEs4Linux to Mac OS X. He made all modifications to the script needed to make it run on Mac. He also macfied the install process to make it more like what Mac users expect.
Happy coding!

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Bluefish Editor 1.1.5

Saturday, 10. November 2007, 20:20:00

editor, gnome, HTML, webdevelopment

Besides gEdit (don't forget to turn on the plugins) Bluefish is a very fine editor for web development. After a while a new unstable version is released again.
Bluefish Editor 1.15 offers improved syntax highlighting, auto completion and much faster replace in files.

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