Popfly Blocks
Microsoft unveiled on May 18 its Web mash-up tool for the masses, codenamed "Springfield," and now officially christened "Popfly."
Unlike Yahoo Pipes, Popfly is not aimed at tech-savvy users. Microsoft is hoping to attract non-professional programmers and hobbyists who are interested in building mash-ups, gadgets, simple Web pages and basic applications.
Popfly Blocks -- 40 of which are currently available -- will allow users to snap together existing Web pages, data and syndicated information. Microsoft and third-party developers are building more custom blocks.
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- Invalid markup too.
- The example of viewing the source markup shows invalid HTML - will MS ever
learn to follow standards? Are their developers just plain incompetent, or maybe just
the person who created the images has no idea what they were doing.
Maybe all three.... (Read the rest) - Posted by: Fred Fredrickson Posted on: 05/20/07 You are currently: a Guest | Log in | Terms of Use
As an addition to HTML, CSS, and Javascript,
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Invalid markup too.
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