PPK talks up the excitement of mobile web development, but brings the mood down by listing the overwhelming array of browsers to be targeted. Quirksmode says it all. This talk is about quirks in mobile development, and some of the solutions out there. Mobile CSS Quirks So many platforms. Take just WebKit. You can't just say "WebKit" [...] Full story...
James Coglan has ported a Ruby/EventMachine Comet server to offer a new Node.js server on the Bayeux protocol.
If you know you think you know your objects from your arrays and your null from your undefined, here’s a quiz for you from Perfection Kills.
eBooks have gone mainstream, and right now the open ePub format is getting a lot of attention, being the iPad’s book format of choice.
It is quite interesting to see how technology moves in circles. With canvas being the new fun toy to play with for creating browser-based games we have to find solutions to fake a 3D environment to be really fast (sure there is Canvas 3D but it is overkill for most games).
We have been long term fans of Román and the fantastic demos and samples that he puts together, usually involving CSS goodness.
Mozilla Labs has released the magical 1.0 version of Weave and the doors are now open for developers.
Anthony Calzadilla has a fun Friday example for us. He has a tutorial on how he animated an AT AT using CSS.
Fan of Eiffel or the design by contract pattern that it espouses?
Øyvind Kinsey is, and he just created jsContract an alpha library to give you some pre and post condition abilities.
Aaron Boodman created Greasemonkey back in the day. He also worked on Gears. And most recently he created Chrome Extensions.
A Googler and a Facebooker were in a pub discussing the complexities of building out a rich modern Web application.