Software manufacturer Adobe has just released an initial alpha version for Linux of its developer environment AIR for Web technology .

Mozilla Foundation's Gecko used to be "the" choice for embedding a HTML renderer into any application. Having the very popular Firefox web browser as its main success case, the Gecko engine seems to provide quite efficient web content rendering times. However, what the KDE project started as their own web content rendering engine (KHTML and friends) was transformed by Apple into Webkit, the engine used in their Safari web browser.

Version 3.0.0 of HTML Purifier, a PHP library for purifying HTML has just been released with numerous new features.

Mozilla developers looking to shift individual browser settings to the Web with a new project dubbed Weave.

PHP is becoming an essential tool for all but the simplest websites. This month we examine PHP in the Linux environment.

Apple developer Maciej Stachowiak has announced a new policy for developers of the HTML rendering library Webkit. It will close the gap between Apple developers and external programmers.

Oracle has just released the first, major JRuby application, thus demonstrating the viability of the Java port of the Ruby scripting language.