For decades, web architecture has followed a familiar and frankly exhausting pattern. A dominant approach emerges, gains near ...

A skin refers to a user interface’s appearance; it gives a Web application a different look and feel. A skin changes the way the user interface appears when a user clicks a button, but does not change ...

I love doing my banking online. I love buying movie tickets, air tickets and books online. The Web is sensational. However, after years of helping clients to develop Web applications (not to be ...

Rich Internet applications (RIA) are Web-based applications that have some characteristics of graphical desktop applications. Built with powerful development tools, RIAs can run faster and be more ...

When it comes to making your own website, some people choose to use a web-authoring application instead of relying on HTML or other programming languages. Such software, also known as a "what you see ...

Whether you're building a Web or desktop application, here's a round-up of tools for building the interface with plain old HTML. Being able to work comfortably on Web-related code elements -- HTML, ...

As noted in Part 1 in this series, embedded Web Applications use the same HTTP communications mechanism as your bank account or the latest game on your smartphone. And why not? The HTTP protocol is ...

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