Image: Wikipedia/CC HTML, CSS and JavaScript have always been visible to the interested end user. Whether through the good old view source option in your browser, or something a bit more sophisticated — like developer favorite Firebug — the code has always been there to learn from. It’s part of what makes the open web open. But when it comes to JavaScript, it’s possible that openness may soon be a thing of the past. …  Read More →

Mozilla Labs has a new goal — saving your contacts list from the chaos of the web. If you’re like most of us, your contacts are probably spread out all over the place — in your webmail provider, on social networks like Twitter or Facebook, on your mobile and maybe even hiding in a desktop address book app. In short, your contacts are a …  Read More →

The stable versions of Google’s Chrome web browser have been updated, including some important security fixes for users of the Windows version. Among the feature highlights in the recent update are better privacy controls, automatic translation of sites not in your native language, and the ability to selectively block JavaScript, pop-up windows, cookies and images by domain. The new features included in these updates have been available... 

AUSTIN, Texas — Opera Software has a version of its Mini browser prepped and ready for the iPhone. Opera Mini 5 for the iPhone will be available in the App Store in a matter of weeks, but the company is demoing a beta version of the tiny mobile browser here at South by Southwest Interactive . We got to see a live demo of the app in action, but we weren’t allowed to photograph it due to the company’s agreement with Apple. The... 

Cliqset has produced this nifty web app that aggregates status updates and check-ins sent from people in and around Austin to all of the different major location-sharing services — Gowalla, Foursquare, Twitter, Brightkite and of course Cliqset. It’s called Cliqset Crowd It’s a nice tool you can use to get in on the location sharing game if you, like me, are one of those people who prefers to observe from the outside. With this... 

We’re headed to Austin, Texas tomorrow along with the crew from Wired’s Underwire blog to attend South By Southwest Interactive . The week-long nerd fest starts Friday, and we’ll be reporting from the trenches. If you’re headed down to SXSWi, here’s what Webmonkey will be checking out. If you’re not going this year, you’ll be able to follow along from home here on the blog and everywhere else on the... 

Flash: quick or dead? A new study released Wednesday pits Flash Player’s video performance against that of native HTML5 video playback in several different web browsers. The verdict? Flash is a CPU hog in some cases, and native H.264 video is a CPU hog in some cases. That’s right — both options threw strikes and gutters. Video playback in the browser has been a central issue of discussion in the tech world of late. The forthcoming... 

If you have Google Apps running on your domain, now you can install third-party apps that fully integrate with Google’s apps. Google has debuted the Google Apps Marketplace , an online store where Google Apps users can browse different cloud-based applications and add the ones they like to their suite of online tools. The apps can share data with the standard Google apps like Gmail and Docs on whatever hosting environment you’re... 

The biggest social network on the web — that’s Facebook, by the way — is getting ready to unveil a location sharing service of its own, according to a report Tuesday. Citing unnamed sources, The New York Times’ Bits blog says there will be two components, “a service offered directly by Facebook that will allow users to share their location information with friends,” and a set of APIs other location-sharing... 

Google has announced a new geocoding web service app authors can use to better plot locations on a map. The new Google Geocoding Web Service includes some enhanced capabilities that not only make it possible for app developers to provide more accurate and granular locations in their apps, but it also lets them increase the performance of their apps through precaching. First off, the new service employs the Google Maps JavaScript API version... 

Browsing the web on one of Amazon’s Kindle e-readers is like taking a step backwards in time. It’s clunky and has only limited support for web standards and bare-bones JavaScript capabilities. But now Amazon may be looking to add browser engineers to the Kindle team, according to the job listings on the company’s website. A job posting for a browser engineer at Lab126 , the division of Amazon that develops the Kindle, indicates... 

We’re giving away a pair of passes to Google I/O today. A little over a week ago, we kicked off our contest , encouraging you to send us any HTML5 web apps or Google Chrome browser extensions you’ve built. Alternatively, we asked you to tell us how you’d describe a web app to your grandmother. We got a heap of submissions, but we worked our way through the field and picked two winners. Abraham Williams and Mike Cantelon will... 

Github user Alan Dipert has posted the source code for NCSA Mosaic 2.7 on the code-hosting website. You can download it and run it on any modern Linux installation. It seems to run on Ubuntu just fine, though PNG support is a little wonky. The good news is that the folks on Github are actively submitting patches. Mosaic was the first graphical web browser. It was born in the early ’90s, created by …  Read More →

As you may have noticed, we’ve given Webmonkey an entirely new coat of paint. The visual design has been refreshed — something we’ve been doing every couple of years since we launched in 1996 — and we honestly think the site has never looked better. It took a lot of hard work by everyone on the Wired.com technical and design teams to pull it off. As pretty as it is, there are other changes behind the scenes that we feel... 

With the latest releases of Opera, Google Chrome and Firefox continuing to push the boundaries of the web, the once-dominant Internet Explorer is looking less and less relevant every day. But we should expect Microsoft to go on the offensive at its upcoming MIX 2010 developer conference in Las Vegas, where, it has been speculated , the company will demonstrate the first beta builds of Internet Explorer 9 and possibly offer a preview release...