AjaxLine

The new version of Internet Explorer is out! As Microsoft claims, Internet Explorer 8 is the first browser fully compatible with modern standarts. Also it have improved performance and extensive set of tools for developers.

Microsoft shipped out final version of ASP.NET MVC. This is the first officially supported release for the ASP.NET MVC.

Silverlight 3 Beta was unveiled at MIX09. It is a preview release which continues Silverlight’s track record of rapid innovation - introducing more than 50 new features, including support for running Silverlight applications out of the browser, dramatic video performance and quality improvements, and features that radically improve developer productivity. Combined with the continued innovation in Visual Studio and Expression Blend, Silverlight 3 empowers .NET developers to create cutting-edge Rich Internet Applications and media experiences.

John Resig gave a talk about performance improvements in browsers. In this talks he covers the new browsers, their JavaScript engines and their JavaScript performance

Novell reports about Moonlight 1.0 release. Available for all major Linux distributions, including openSUSE®, SUSE® Linux Enterprise, Fedora, Red Hat, and Ubuntu, this release is in part a result of the existing technical collaboration between Microsoft and Novell that extends interoperability between Windows and Linux. Windows Media Video (.wmv), Windows Media Audio (.wma) and MP3 files are supported through the Microsoft Media Pack, a Microsoft-delivered set of media codecs that brings optimized and licensed decoders to every Linux user using Moonlight. Additionally, it allows developers to write Rich Internet Applications for multiple platforms.

JavaScriptMVC is a framework that brings methods to the madness of JavaScript development. It guides you to successfully completed projects by promoting best practices, maintainability, and convention over configuration.

Bespin is a Mozilla Labs experiment on how to build an extensible Web code editor using HTML 5 technology that proposes an open, extensible web-based framework for code editing that aims to increase developer productivity, enable compelling user experiences, and promote the use of open standards.

Scott Guthrie reports about release of the ASP.NET MVC 1.0 RC1. There is a several interesting enchancements in this release as a Visual Studio Tooling improvements and file handling improvements.

Brandon Cannaday posts an article in which he tells about Silverlight Deep Zoom on a O'Reilly site example.

Authors of devSnippets site posts an interesting collection of various useful CSS snippets.

Richard Worth reveals some details about upcoming jQuery UI 1.6 version. It wiil have many new features like extended, sprite-based ThemeRoller icon set and class system for adding rounded corners via CSS.

Cal Schrotenboer and Alan Cobb post an article about Silverlight Toolkit. In this article authors describe the current state of Silverlight Toolkit. and shows some examples of using the AutoCompleteBox and charting components.

Damon Armstrong tells about evolution of .NET languages in his new article and exploring the new features of languages included in upcoming .NET 4.0

John Mertic post the second chapter of his article about new functional features of PHP 5.3 closures and lambdas. They are designed to make programming much easier by allowing you to easily define throwaway functions that can be used in many contexts.