Robert O'Callahan, someone I am proud to consider a colleague now, has written some thoughts on the essence of Web applications where he discusses what makes a webapp at its core.

As browsers continue to tie closer to desktop services via new APIs, great single-site browser apps, and the use of Web technology on the desktop (a la AIR) do we start to blend the world of desktop and Web so much that you can't tell the difference?

Mark Pilgrim kicked off a series of posts that keep track of the goings on in HTML 5, and has now created the first article in a new series: The Road to HTML 5 - Episode 1: the section element.

The Road to HTML 5 will go into detail on a particular feature of HTML 5 rather than a broad look on waht has happened that week:

The element of the day is the <section> element.

Mark Pilgrim, in his latest episode on This Week in HTML 5, got into an interesting topic indeed: clickjacking.

This post is the third lesson which I dedicate to MooTools for newbie and illustrates how to implement simple interactions with form input elements using this powerful framework and unobtrusive JavaScript code.

Some time ago I wrote this post where I explained some useful tips to enrich HTML Form using simple JavaScript functions. Some readers asked to me to illustrate similar examples using

In Mark Pilgrim's HTML 5 roundup he shares with us the big news:

... the merging of the Web Forms 2 specification into the HTML 5 specification, and updating it with the collected feedback of the last two years.

Design a web application requires hard work and knowledge of HTML, CSS, database and javascript. What is a simple way to start developing PHP web applications for a newbie?

In the past months I received frequently this question. Some readers of this blog often asked to me to publish a "newbie-oriented" post about how to create a web application using PHP. With this step-by-step guide I want to

Are you looking for some ideas to design an original interface for your next website project using the most popular JavaScript Frameworks such as Prototype, MooTools and Scriptaculous?

Take a look at this short compilation which includes a Facebook-style lightbox; a nice interface library to develope advanced interfaces for web applications, web sites and widgets; a gallery/slideshow system

There have been some clever tricks to create new custom tags in Internet Explorer, such as the createElement trick. However, I never realized that Internet Explorer itself provides a facility to define new tags in the markup and have them styled, since Internet Explorer 5!

Navigation bar is an important element of website design: this is an example which uses a dynamic submenu to display sublinks of the main tabs.
This tutorial illustrates how to design an elegant glass style navigation bar with a nice toggle animation effect, using CSS and MooTools. The result is something like this:

Moving your mouse over a tab in the main menu, the submenu display several

Mark Pilgrim continues to keep us up to date with news in HTML 5 land. This week he talks to us about the birth of the event loop, and the hashchange event.

I saw this just after posting about the cross browser hashchange example by Zach Leatherman. In the future we will see a nice, standard way to do this work: