Cody Taylor

Periodically, we here at OStatic like to round up our ongoing collections of open source resources, tutorials, reviews and project walkthroughs. These educational tools are a central part of the goal here at the site. We regularly round up the best Firefox extensions, free online books on open source topics, free tools for web developers, resources

In this article, we’ll take a look at the websites of major motion pictures to see what types of websites are being created. Movies are a big part of the entertainment industry, and in recent years their websites have become increasingly critical to their overall success.

We are excited to announce that we have released Raven, the very first web-based vector editor, into the wild. Raven, Aviary’s online vector editor, is the first and only tool of its kind to be available online.

The Seed project, which uses GObject-introspection to provide GTK+ bindings for JavaScript, is already bearing fruit. It has been integrated into the Epiphany Web browser as an extension system.

“We are launching this blog for anyone interested or involved in helping to make the web more social. Whether you own a site and want to add social features to increase community engagement, or you’re developing a great social application, this blog is for you.”

CWmike writes “The European Commission (EC) has granted Mozilla the right to join its antitrust case against Microsoft, a spokesman said Monday. If the charges stick, Microsoft could be forced to change the way it distributes IE, as well as pay a fine for monopoly abuse. Mitchell Baker, Mozilla’s chairperson, said in a blog over the weekend that there isn’t ‘the single smallest iota of doubt’ that Microsoft’s tying of IE to Windows ‘harms competition between web browsers, undermines product innovation and ultimately reduces consumer choice.'”

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