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Web Browsers
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ALSO CALLED: Graphical Browsers, Text-based Browsers, Internet Browsers, World-Wide Web Browsers, Pull Technology Software, WWW Browsers, and Browsers
DEFINITION: Mosaic was the first widely-distributed graphical browser or viewer for the World Wide Web. It is usually considered to have been the software that introduced the World Wide Web and the Internet to a wide general audience. Once Mosaic was available, the Web virtually exploded in numbers of users and
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Mobilizing the Enterprise: Evaluating the Three Delivery Options
| sponsored by VeriSign, Inc
WHITE PAPER:
Against this vast global landscape of opportunity, IT directors, marketers and line of business managers must define a mobile strategy built
around the channel that best meets their specific needs. Read on to learn more.
Posted: 05 Jun 2009 | Published: 01 Apr 2009
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Web Application Security Trends Report Q3-Q4, 2008
| sponsored by Cenzic
WHITE PAPER:
Read this white paper to learn how to protect web applications through application security assessment and penetration testing managed services (SaaS) that identify vulnerabilities and allow organizations to stay ahead of hackers.
Posted: 20 May 2009 | Published: 20 May 2009
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YUI for Control Freaks
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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This session breaks down the internal events of YUI, how to control animations, and what you need to know about the browser instance you apply your code to.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Making Friends with the Browser: Ajax, Backbuttons and Bookmarks
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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Learn how to enable bookmarks and the back button in your Ajax application using the Really Simple History library, which serializes application state in the URL #hash, and dsHistory.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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jQuery on Rails (The Real Ones)
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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The talk examines how to develop and enterprise solution for leveraging a diverse server-side framework portfolio and deliver a consistent experience to end users.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Beyond the Standards - Advanced Animation and Physics in JavaScript
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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Learn how to create stunning effects using canvas/svg/vml, how to control animated graphics in JavaScript, and how to merge all kinds of standards and technologies to create a whole new world of possibilities.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Analyzing Ajax Application Performance
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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While a fast and powerful scripting engine does impact the performance of an Ajax application, many other sub-systems of the browser contribute to the overall performance of the application.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Defensive, Cross-Browser Coding with Prototype
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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This session explores strategies that Prototype users can employ to write code that works in the real world.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Advanced jQuery
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
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In this session, we use jQuery and a number of jQuery plugins to create an advanced wizard.
Posted: 15 Jan 2009 | Premiered: 07 Jan 2009
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Akamai's Application Performance Solutions: For a Complete Application Delivery Strategy, Think Outside the Data-center
| sponsored by Akamai Technologies
WHITE PAPER:
Akamai's Web Application Accelerator takes a unique approach to solving the Web application delivery challenge by filling the gap between the data-center and end-users while requiring no additional hardware by the customer.
Posted: 30 Dec 2008 | Published: 30 Dec 2008
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Google Chrome and Web Applications
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST:
This keynote gives a high-level overview of Google Chrome's current architecture with a focus on Web development; this will include a discussion of Google Chrome's rendering, Web site compatibility and developer tools.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Top 10 Cross-Browser Issues
| sponsored by The Ajax Experience
WEBCAST:
With representatives of all of the major Ajax frameworks on stage, Peter-Paul Koch leads a discussion of the top cross-browser issues faced by Ajax developers today and how each framework addresses them.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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WEB BROWSERS DEFINITION (continued):
content sites. The success of Mosaic depended on the recent invention and adoption of Hypertext Transfer Protocol by Tim Berners-Lee.) Mosaic arrived in 1993. Marc Andreessen, then in his early 20s, is credited with inventing or leading the development of Mosaic. He developed it at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois. Andreessen and others went on to become part of Netscape Communications, originally called Mosaic Communications.
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