Free And Open Source Alternatives To Flash For Linux

A dedicated Flash player is not the only way to view Flash content. Here are two of the major open source alternatives that offer Flash access to Linux users.  If you prefer to stay away from Windows and support the open source Linux platform then Adobe's Flash might create troubles for you now. With Adobe announcing plans to discontinue its standalone Flash Player for Linux, its updated versions will be available to Linux users only through Google's Chrome browser. It would also be interesting to note how much longer Flash will be important to Adobe as HTML5 grows. Till then, do not lose heart! A dedicated Flash player is not the only way to view Flash content. A report by PCWorld lists down two of the major open source...

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Integrate jQuery in HTML

jQuery simplifies building rich, interactive web frontends. Getting started with this Javascript library is easy, but it can take years to fully realize its breadth and depth. In this excerpt from jQuery Cookbook, the authors quickly get you up to speed by showing you how to quickly and efficiently add the jQuerry library to your HTML There are currently two ideal solutions for embedding the jQuery library in a web page: Use the Google-hosted content delivery network (CDN) to include a version of jQuery (used in this tutorial).Download your own version of jQuery from jQuery.com and host it on your own server or local filesystem. Including the jQuery Javascript library isn’t any different from including any other external Javascript file. You simply use the HTML <script> element and...

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HTML 5 Cheat Sheet (PDF)

XHTML 2 is dead, long live HTML 5! According to W3C News Archive, XHTML 2 working group is expected to stop workend of 2009 and W3C is planning to increase resources on HTML 5 instead. And even although HTML 5 won’t be completely supported until 2022, it doesn’t mean that it won’t be widely adopted within the foreseeable future. So in the spirit of the upcoming change there is release of a handy printable HTML 5 Cheat Sheet by smashingmagazine that lists all currently supported tags, their descriptions, their attributes and their support in HTML 4. Please notice that the specification is an ongoing work, and is expected to remain so for many years, although parts of HTML 5 are going to be finished and implemented in browsers before the whole specification reaches final Recommendation status. Here's...

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