Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Pinvoke has designed 4 sets of amazing mini icons ( 10×10 and 16×16 pixel ). The icons can be used royalty-free by the licensee for any personal or commercial projects.

Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license

Tango Icon Library provides developers a set of professional high quality icons. They are in PNG ( Transparent background which can easily integrate into any web site) and SVG format ( Scalable which means you can increase the size of the icons without losing quality.

Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license

Apollo is the code name for a cross-operating system runtime being developed by Adobe that allows developers to leverage their existing web development skills (Flash, Flex, HTML, JavaScript, Ajax) to build and deploy rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.

Web Application Developement is growing faster than ever with the support of Ajax. Users do not need to reload every page in order to interact with the web application. Therefore, web application is becoming more popular. However, some people still aware of the security of online application. They are worrying that some hackers might be able to steal their sensitive information form the web site.

Now web application developer can use their web development skill to create a destop application for users with Apollo. Users can download desktop version of the application. It is really a good news to web application developer.

Requirements: Windows XP (SP2) / Vista, Mac OSX 10.4.8 on PPC or Intel
Demo: http://www.adobe.com/go/apollo_samples
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0