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MeasureIt: Another Firefox Extension for Web Developers
Last week in our ongoing series on Firefox extensions we looked at Firebug. This week we'll take a look at MeasureIt, a tool that enables developers to accurately measure items on a website.
Tools for Cross-browser Compatibility: Screen Capture
In our last article we discussed using live testing tools to aid in your cross-browser analysis. This article introduces a few screenshot sampling tools which can provide you with an unbiased look at how your website appears in multiple browsers.

Featured Goodies

Tools for Cross Browser Compatibility: Live Testing
Cross browser testing, through which you compare a website's look and performance among different browser versions and platforms, is an important and often frustrating task. This article introduces a few live testing tools to aid in your analysis.
Web Developer Basics: Learning About HTML5
HTML5, depending on who you listen to, may be either a disruptive new technology that has the potential to bring entire companies to their knees, or a smooth transition from current HTML 4.0 that promises to make life much easier for developers. Both are at least partially true, and in this continuing series, I hope to help you make sense out of HTML5: both business sense and nuts-and-bolts coding-level sense.

Beyond HTML

Web Developer Tutorial: JavaScript and CSS Minification
When a user visits a website for the first time, any external JavaScript and CSS files are downloaded to their browser's cache. Depending on the size of the file, this can take more time for the page to render. With more people surfing using mobile platforms, it is a good idea to minify your JavaScript and CSS files. This tutorial will teach you how to do just that!
Firefox Extensions for the Web Developer: Firebug
In this series of articles, I will introduce a few Firefox extensions (also called "add-ons") to aid web development. The mini applications let you quickly evaluate and tweak your sites look and performance. This week we look at the popular Firebug extension.

HTML and Graphics Tutorials

How To Add a YouTube Video to Your Web Site
Embedding a video from YouTube in your website is quite simple these days. In this tutorial we'll show you how to do it, and how to use the more advanced embedding features that YouTube now provides to web developers.
Web Developer's Guide: How to Speed Up Your Website
There was a time way back in this author's career when making web sites as fast as possible was almost as high a priority as making them look good. Google recently announced that site speed will affect page ranking, but what can cause speed problems and how do you fix them? That is what we hope to answer in this article.

Primers

iWebkit for the iPhone Developer: Adding Menus, List Items and Text Boxes
In our last article we told you about iWebkit, and showed you what you can do with this powerful JavaScript, HTML and CSS framework. In this article we'll continue with the construction of an iPhone-ready HTMLGoodies website, and show you how to use list items, menus, text boxes and create splash screens and icons for your iOS device-ready web app.
Using the iWebkit iPhone Development Framework for Creating Web Apps
We've previously discussed using the iUI framework for creating iPhone-ready websites, but there's another player in the iPhone framework market, and that's iWebkit. This week we'll look at how you can use iWebkit to create an iPhone ready website that looks and acts like a native application!

Web Development Daily News

Silverlight 5 Roadmap Finally Sees the Light
It has recently been brought to light that Microsoft has changed the focus of its Silverlight technology, and this week the Redmond company discussed its roadmap for Silverlight 5, which is expected to debut in 2011.
Google's Chrome Web Store Launching Soon
With all the talk about mobile apps and HTML5, the opening of Google's Chrome Web Store is of interest both to developers and end users. Similar to Apple's App Store, the Chrome Web Store will enable Chrome users to locate, install and purchase web apps.
Don't Be Evil: Mozilla Warns Apple, Microsoft and Google
Asa Dotzler from Mozilla scolded Apple, Microsoft and Google, telling them in a post in his blog this week to "stop being evil," a play on Google's mantra of "don't be evil." He is referring to the software giant's practice of installing software plug-ins without permission into the Firefox browser.
Web Developers Practically Have Unlimited Open Resources Available
Web developers are a resourceful group, and with so many open source tools available, they have a lot to work with. This article discusses various free resources ranging from Firefox extensions to educational software.
Moodle 2.0 Released with Integration and Web 2.0 Functionality
The Moodle community formally released the Moodle 2.0 Learning Management System (LMS) after two years of development. Moodle is an electronic learning platform that is used by over a million teachers, with more than 38 million users worldwide.