Rich Internet Applications
New Technologies for New User Experiences: Is JavaFX Next on the Horizon?
The mobile Web, including smartphones and tablet computers, is having a profound effect on the design of applications, both for business and personal use. It is just like a new world has opened up and new user interfaces and new user experiences is showing up that only few years back were impossible to develop.
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Desktop and Web Application Development with Free State-of-the-Art Tools
Web and software developers must be very happy these days. They can choose from many different integrated development environments (IDE) and some of the best and most flexible are free to use and even open source.
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Advanced Web User Interfaces
The interactive functionality of the World Wide Web is increasing. Design, trends and widget styles of modern Web sites is having effect on the user interface design of smart-phones. The user interface design of desktop applications is changing in the direction of Web look and feel rather than introducing innovations. The difference in design between desktop apps, Web sites, smart-phones and handheld computers is blurring.
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Web Page Load Time Optimization Techniques and Tools
Web page load time is very important. A fast loading Web site increases positive user experience and helps other computers successfully access its content. Load time might become, in the near future, a factor in ranking Web pages and will therefore have direct influence on a Web site's overall success.
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Sliding Font Viewer: Free Online Tool
Few Web designing tasks do not involve manipulating fonts or typography of a Web page in one way or the other. Fonts are important. Primarily expectations for Web fonts is to have them readable by majority of Web users and then make them fit the overall Web page or site's design. This task can be trivial even though the coding and CSS styling part for fonts is relatively simple and straightforward.
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Modal and Modeless Web Page Dialogs
Modal and modeless dialogs are concepts in graphical user interfaces (GUI) in software development where a modal dialog is keeps user focus while the modeless dialog does not and user can traverse between dialogs or windows.
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The Applets: Powerful RIA Applications in the Web Browser
The applets appeared along with the Java programming language in the middle of the last decade of the twentieth century. The applets came with the promise of a rich Internet application. Some say the Java programming language became popular because of the applets, but we leave that for others to debate.
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