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• Sencha Architect: Visual HTML5, sort of

  By Neil McAllister | 16 May, 2012 20:12

  Sencha describes Sencha Architect 2, the latest incarnation of its visual Web development tool, as "a massive upgrade to Ext Designer," the previous version. The name change from Designer to Architect reflects the product's new focus. Instead of a tool for building Web UIs, Sencha says the new version is suitable for creating complete Web applications, both for UI designers and back-end developers. That's true up to a point.

• Review: AppMobi XDK brings more style than substance to iPhone, Android development

  By James R. Borck | 11 May, 2012 20:15

  Despite the gold-rush atmosphere around mobile application development, you won't find many newbie-friendly tools aligned to help nonprogrammers mine for application riches. Even if the target platforms often seem like toys, most of the development kits are still developer-minded and code-centric, and they can present formidable hurdles to the uninitiated.

• Eclipse readies browser-based IDE

  By Paul Krill | 26 March, 2012 21:12

  The Eclipse Foundation for open source development tools is eyeing July as the release date for the 1.0 version of its Orion browser-based IDE for building Web applications, which will be discussed at this week's EclipseCon 2012 conference in Reston, Va.

• Cloud computing in 2012: An InfoWorld special report

  By InfoWorld staff | 25 February, 2012 02:05

  InfoWorld gives you the full scoop on the state of the cloud in 2012, including key trends in the cloud's technology and its job opportunities, as well as what you have to know about the cloud before developing for it.

• Node.js tools: Server-side JavaScript comes of age

  By Peter Wayner | 22 February, 2012 22:16

  The story of Node.js reads like it came from a Hollywood script assembly line: Some kids are monkeying around with scrap they picked up around the Internet and find a new way to snap it together. The next thing you know, they're lapping the pack at the racetrack and coasting to the winner's circle.

• Google adds new access, analysis to Web performance tool

  By Paul Krill | 01 April, 2011 10:33

  Google is upgrading on Thursday its tool for analyzing Web page performance, making it available directly via the Web and offering smartphone page analysis.

• Bankwest launches new website, iPhone app

  By Georgina Swan | 21 March, 2011 09:30

  Bankwest's revamped website will take advantage of crowd-sourcing with user-generated comparisons and a range of new online-shopping inspired functions designed to reflect a more retail, customer-centric perspective.

• Startup preps Web-based prototyping service

  By Rodney Gedda | 04 June, 2010 11:32

  A new service that allows drag-and-drop prototyping for Web applications is due for release next month and promises to streamline project management by displaying the desired result in real-time.

• HTML 5: Less than it's cracked up to be

  By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | 30 March, 2010 03:35

  The core idea behind HTML 5, the latest proposed version of the Web's foundation markup language, is to make all resources, not just text and links, widely and uniformly usable across all platforms. Well, that was the theory. In practice, things aren't going to change that much from today's Web, with its reliance on proprietary media formats and methods.

• Google goes with HTML5 over Gears

  By Jeremy Kirk | 04 December, 2009 07:33

  Google will end Gears, an open-source plug-in project it launched two years ago to allow Web applications to function even when a computer isn't connected to the Internet, according to a statement from the company.

• Google aims for faster Web downloads with SPDY protocol

  By Mikael Ricknäs | 16 November, 2009 08:09

  Google is hoping to make Web pages download up to twice as quickly using SPDY, a new application-layer protocol it's experimenting with, the company said in a blog post.