The Blackberry Playbook Tablet now has a new OS Version 2.0 with a runtime for Android 2.3.3. Blackberry tablet owners can update their current OS to 2.0 (the update is currently in beta) to utilise some great new features that have been added over the earlier software release.With the new 2.0 OS, the Playbook gets a native email client, calendar and contacts apps. The email client was a much needed feature for the tablet and has been well designed for users on the go. The emails can be formatted in a rich style and can also be integrated with Gmail accounts. The contacts app is useful for consolidating contacts from different social networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn besides retrieving contacts from email accounts.Based on the QNX Operating System, the Blackberry Tablet OS...
We spoke to Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera and spoke about the latest trends in open web standards.Håkon Wium Lie, CTO, Opera, and creator of CSS From what we understand, CSS3 is now being developed in a modular fashion, so parts of it can become standardised while other modules are still being worked on. What are some of the CSS3 modules that are near being recommended? Yes, you're right, CSS3 is modular. And it's probably about somewhere between 20 to 30 modules. And we can't do all of them at the same time. Some are being actively developed by all browsers and they are the ones that are closest to being mature, whereas others are more experimental. Some of them may never really become a standard. So there's little bit of everything in it. I think it's due to the...
Nearly every browser has an integrated suite of developer tools that can help debug and develop websites, but Firefox has been lacking in that area by default. Firefox didn't need an integrated suite of web development and debugging tools since it was quite extensible, and had a powerful add-on for all who needed development tools, FireBug. FireBug is still available, and popular, and continues to be developed for each new Firefox release. But if you were always excited to learn about how the web works, now Firefox will put the tools straight in your hands.So why does Firefox need its own set of developer tools? The intention of Firefox developers is to have a better alternative to traditional developer tools such as FireBug, Opera Dragonfly, and other similar developer tools available...