Jukka-Pekka Keisala

IE tab is another great extension for Firefox that allows you to open Internet Explorer only pages inside Firefox to a new tab.
-Install it
-Go to a site
-Right click and scroll to ?View this page in IETab?
This is a great tool for web developers, since you can easily see how your webpage displayed in IE with just one click and then switch back to Firefox. Read more about it in official website.

JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a virtual machine, shell, virtual file-system, process-management, and brings its own terminal with screen- and keyboard-mapping.

The IE Developer Toolbar provides several features for deeply exploring and understanding Web pages.

• Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a web page.
• Locate and select specific elements on a web page through a variety of techniques.
• Selectively disable Internet Explorer settings.
• View HTML object class names, ID’s, and details such as link paths, tab index values, and access keys.
• Outline tables, table cells, images, or selected tags.
• Validate HTML, CSS, WAI, and RSS web feed links.
• Display image dimensions, file sizes, path information, and alternate (ALT) text.
• Immediately resize the browser window to 800×600 or a custom size.
• Selectively clear the browser cache and saved cookies. Choose from all objects or those associated with a given domain.
• Choose direct links to W3C specification references, the Internet Explorer team weblog (blog), and other resources.
• Display a fully featured design ruler to help accurately align objects on your pages.

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This HTML text editor brings to the web many of the powerful functionalities of desktop editors like MS Word.
Check out the What’s New page.

Developers and designers have come really crazy about AJAX. I started to look for AJAX framework for some simple form validation and I found huge amount of code samples and frameworks which are under development or already on version 5.0.

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With Backbase software you can quickly create user-friendly and highly interactive Rich Internet Applications. These applications are based on Web Standards and can be viewed in almost any modern web browser without installing any plug-ins.
http://www.backbase.com/

Soon we are going to see websites that are cooler than never before. Because of native Scalable Vector Graphics support in forthcoming Web browser releases. Check out article about it in Publish

Whisper Brand Strategy Consultants has a blog about branding.

Here is a small list of Open Source Flash Projects. Tell me if you know more.

FFIE
Alternative for Macromedia Flex
http://www.fluidflashinterfaces.com/

Laszlo
The development and delivery platform.
http://www.openlaszlo.org/

Flash For Linux
Development environment for Macromedia Flash,
http://f4l.sourceforge.net/

AS Development Tool (asdt)
A plugin for the popular Eclipse platform to work with ActionScript 2 files
http://www.asdt.org/

JavaSWF2
Set of Java packages that enable the parsing, manipulation and generation of the SWF.
http://www.anotherbigidea.com/javaswf/

Ming
SWF output library and PHP module
http://ming.sourceforge.net/

SSWF
The library which enables a programmer to easily create an SWF file.
http://sswf.sourceforge.net/

AsUnit
Unit Test Framework for Macromedia Flash ActionScript 2.0
http://www.asunit.com/

GPLFlash
GPL licensed flash player.
http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/

MTASC
ActionScript 2 Open Source free compiler
http://www.mtasc.org/

Flash Ant
Command-line Flash Compiler
http://www.flashant.org/

Flirt
SWF rendering library.
http://flirt.sourceforge.net/

Swfmill
Tool to process SWF files. It can convert SWF from and to an XML-dialect. xml2swf, swf2xml, libxslt-based XSL transformator etc.
http://iterative.org/swfmill/

SolVE
Local Shared Object Viewer/Editor
http://solve.sourceforge.net/

As a web developer I haven’t been able to figure out what will I do with XAML on my work. First when I heard about XAML I though XAML will be Microsoft replacement for SVG. After looking XAML I got really angry for Microsoft because I was unable to find any W3C standards except XML in it. This would it mean that I can’t reuse CSS, SVG etc. in XAML. Until today I have lived on misconception that MS is just out to push some new proprietary standard.

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