During his keynote presentation at OSCON last year, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth described application extensibility as an important enabler of innovation and user empowerment. Citing the Firefox ...

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Web application development has evolved into a discipline that melds sophisticated front‐end interactivity with robust back‐end functionality, utilising languages such as JavaScript as a fundamental ...

AJAX is the web development buzzword du mois. AJAX programming isn't really anything revolutionary. It is simply a means of combining a bunch of web-oriented technologies in a way that enables ...

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Titanium is an open-source platform that enables developers to build rich desktop applications using standard Web technologies. Titanium applications run natively on Linux, Mac OS X and Windows ...

Typically, writing programs for Web browsers means that you don't have access to a user's computer and file system. But by using ActiveX objects on Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer, you can ...

Collabora is now also releasing its office suite as a desktop application. It uses web technology instead of the classic ...

Thirty years ago, Java 1.0 revolutionized software development. Every Java demo featured a simple "Hello World" dialog window with the only available option: Java's Abstract Window Toolkit, the first ...

(1) An application that runs stand-alone in a desktop or laptop computer. Contrast with "Web-based application," which requires the Web browser to run. The term may ...