Best of 2011

Web apps, credit cards, merchant accounts and PayPal

Why Google+ Gets a “+1″ for Browser Security

WordPress Launches Google Adsense Alternative, WordAds

WordPress.com Blog2011106 points28 commentsTech Industry & Business details

Over the years one of the most frequent requests on WordPress.com has been to allow bloggers to earn money from their blog through ads. We’ve resisted advertising so far because most of it we…

Chrome at 20% market share, IE9 less than IE7

Pingdom Royal2011105 points57 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Why We are Moving Away from Facebook as a Platform

Google uses accelerometer API in Jules Verne Google Doodle

Official Google Blog2011105 points32 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Insights from Googlers into our products, technology, and the Google culture

CSS3 regions: Rich page layout with HTML and CSS3

Adobe2011105 points25 commentsWeb & Frontend details

Rack-webconsole: a Ruby/Rails console inside your browser

jQuery 1.5.2 Released

jQuery Blog2011104 points8 commentsWeb & Frontend details

jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library

Adobe Launches "Adobe Edge" - HTML5 Animation Tool

Adobe Labs2011102 points55 commentsWeb & Frontend details

DuckDuckGo adds zero-click recipe search with the Punchfork Recipe API

Native Client: Getting Ready for Takeoff

Chromium Blog2011100 points44 commentscited by 3Web & Frontend details

Over the last few months we have been hard at work getting Native Client ready to support the new Pepper plug-in interface. Native Client ...

Mozilla JavaScript 2011

Mozilla Blog2011100 points0 commentsWeb & Frontend details

SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web

The Chromium Projects201182 points35 commentscited by 19Networking & Internet details

As part of the "Let's make the web faster" initiative, we are experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One of these experiments is SPDY (pronounced "SPeeDY"), an application-layer protocol for transporting content over the web, designed specifically for minimal latency. In…

Read files in JavaScript | Articles

HTML5 Rocks2011cited by 11Web & Frontend details

How to select files, read file metadata and content, and monitor read progress.

Readability: The Optimal Line Length

Baymard Institute2011cited by 39Design & UX details

The length of text lines substantially impacts their readability — yet this is often overlooked in e-commerce. See our latest test findings on line length readability.