Web Development News and Articles

Google uses Wine to provide Linux support for Picasa; now the search engine giant has commissioned the specialists from Codeweavers to improve Wine support for Adobe Photoshop CS and CS2 .

The Mozilla Foundation has removed at least ten vulnerabilities from its browser, three of which were classified as critical by the developers.

Indian software developer Synovel released the latest 0.4 version of its groupware client, Spicebird, just a few days ago.

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Firefox version 2.0.0.10 which resolves three critical vulnerabilities – but new issues have already reared their ugly heads.

Google’s mobile phone has been dubbed Android and is actually an Open Source platform with an operating system and applications.

The Mozilla Foundation has just released Prism, the pre-release version of an application that removes a Web application’s reliance on a browser. The software, which was previously only available for Windows, is now available as version 0.8 for Linux and Mac OS X.

The Mozilla Foundation has departed from its normal release cycle to fix several bugs and the remaining security holes in version 2.0.0.8 of the Firefox web browser.

Mozilla is working on a Firefox browser for mobile devices and it looks likely that it will run on Symbian, Windows Mobile and Linux.

The Mozilla Foundation has decided to found a new subsidiary to handle ongoing development of the Thunderbird mail program. The Foundation is dedicating US$ 3 m to the new subsidiary.

The commercial version of the Eudora mail client was retired in October 2006. Now, a beta version of the new revitalized Eudora has just been released.