Software developers are increasingly using Web technologies to build desktop applications. This is because modern HTML rendering engines and emerging standards provide a profoundly powerful foundation ...

The open source WebKit HTML rendering engine is increasingly being used in Linux desktop applications to enable richer user interfaces that seamlessly integrate Web content. We first looked at this ...

Ranchero Software has updated NetNewsWire, its RSS Web newsreader for Mac OS X. The new version is ready for download from Ranchero Software’s Web site now. With NetNewsWire, you can fetch and display ...

The new PyScript project lets you embed Python programs directly in HTML pages and execute them within the browser without any server-based requirements. The project was announced this weekend at ...

I was shocked to learn that Microsoft has torn the IE rendering engine out of the Outlook 2007 e-mail client. Going forward, HTML e-mails will be rendered using the rendering engine in Microsoft Word.

Apple's handling of PDF (Portable Document Format, an adaptation of the PostScript printer language for display and document exchange) in the upcoming releease of OS X is just remarkable. It harkens ...