Aug 31, 2006 News Wire

Justin Palmer’s Encytemedia blog is fast becoming the unofficial source for the latest information about Prototype. Here he dissects a bunch of new updates that have just made their way into the development version of the library.

An analysis of what increases in the prevalence of tabbed browsing mean to services and tools designed to analyze the behaviour of visitors on your site. Nothing earth-shattering, but worth being aware of if you work in the field.

Flash Player 9 for Linux is slated for release early in 2007, with a beta release before that.

Barring an unforeseen critical bug, Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 will be out Thursday, August 31st.

Contrary to what has been previously rumoured, Internet Explorer 7 will not be a forced update for Windows XP upon its release later this year. IE7 will be offered via Windows Automatic Updates, but it will not be forced like Service Pack 2.

An alliance of interested parties has launched a contest to design a logo for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG). The contest is not endorsed or sponsored by the W3C, but Opera is involved, and some of the prizes are pretty cool.

A simple, but effective summary of producing the subtle, high-saturation gradients that are all the rage in web design right now.

Adobe is celebrating 10 years since the first release of Flash in 1996 with a rich, interactive video history of the platform. Check it out!