Kshitij Sobti

CSS is awesome, but like all other web standards — heck like all standards every devised — has its own shortcomings. But, you don’t need to be tied to the standards and their shortcomings! As long as the final result is in web standard format, the browser won’t care if you coded your website in assembly, and entered it into your computer using a binary keypad.

The impact of a certain infamous meeting a few months is finally being felt. Opera Software has released a snapshot build of their upcoming Opera 12.5 browser, and among other things it adds support for WebKit prefixed CSS properties.

The European Court of Justice has ruled that the resale of legally purchased software is indeed legal. The court ruled in a case by Oracle, which had accused UsedSoft of piracy. UsedSoft acted as a reseller of used Oracle licenses.

LibreOffice developers have been working not only on getting LibreOffice running on mobile devices, but also at adapting the UI for mobile devices.

It is interesting to see how quickly communities form around open source projects, and the latest is webOS. As promised by HP a while back, webOS is being open sourced.

In jQuery 1.8, coming in a month, a number of jQuery APIs will be depreciated. In jQuery 1.9 they will be removed, with some of them being offered at plug-ins. And with jQuery 2.0 support for Internet Explorer 6, 7, 8 will be removed.

You can now create amazing transitions and slides on your web page with impress.js

The hacking community is constantly engaged in pushing hardware farther than it can go. The latest example of their efforts is a “working port of Google’s latest Android 4 “Ice Cream Sandwich OS to the Samsung Galaxy Wave S8500.