web2.0

Best Web 2.0 UI book

Hi; Which is the best book for hands on web 2.0 User interface development?. I would like a book that can help me learn the CSS needed to make good looking highly userble web 2.0 interfaces with rounded corners , buttons with gradient, elegant and simplistic not overcrowded , good color matching and themes e.t.c. I know what i want. i ...

How to draw in web 2.0?

I heard that drawing abilities will be supported by Web 2.0 Tried to find something in Internet about, nothing really clear. Could you please point me into something that allows (or will allow in future) to draw in HTML? For example: I want to have ability draw few hexagons in different color on the page. Thanks. P.S. Sorry if quest...

Should I be learning Flash/Flex/ActionScript or HTML/CSS/JS ("HTML5")?

I'm fairly new to this whole web-development thing (2 weeks maybe, my 1st scraping of code exists here, I quite like it) and I ended up learning to use Adobe's Flash Builder 4, which I have come to quite like (although Action Script annoys me at times). Recently however I've been reading a lot about "the future" of web development, RIAs...

JSF mobile web version. What technology to use?

We have currently developed a trading platform using glassfish and primefaces. The company is looking to expand the application and provide a mobile web version. What technology can I use that is stable and fast. I know there is touchfaces from Primefaces and Apache Trinidad. I have tried the touchfaces demo but it does not seem to w...

Does SproutCore's "Binding" feature let widgets initiate a call to the server to obtain data?

My team is tasked with quickly evaluating SproutCore and a couple of other alternatives. There's not really enough time for a deep dive, but our findings might let us convince the powers that be to allow for a deeper dive. (Right now, we're just taking a quick glance to see "what's out there"). So me and a teammate have started looking ...