Todd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didn't say which version) have really good support for ARIA. And Opera, Chrome, and Safari. Likewise for the screenreaders - JAWS, [...] Full story...
Disclaimer: Ben and I work for Palm and created this program. I wanted to make sure that you were aware of it over here, since Web developers have a great chance of getting some $ :)
At Palm we wanted to reward the mobile Web developers who build great applications that our users can enjoy.
Rey Bango (Ajaxian and now Microsoft employee) will do a post that rounds up the news from MIX today where the IE9 team shared a first preview release of IE9 that comes with new features from HTML5+ (video, SVG, CSS3, addEventListener, JavaScript compilation spread across multicore, and more).
The Chromium folk have posted about JavaScript conformance as they release a test runner for Sputnik, that allows you to easily run the complete test suite from within your browser:
Sputnik touches all aspects of the JavaScript language defined in the 3rd edition of the ECMA-262 spec.
Cedric Dugas feels so passionate about fixed positioning in WebKit that he created A Better Mobile Web to talk about it:
The Problem
It is impossible to have an element fixed in CSS on the page in the mobile Webkit browser.
Ben Cherry has a really nice detailed analysis of the module pattern.
He starts with the simple pattern that Crock-y documented back in the day.
Sergey Chikuyonok gets his Philips Ambilight foo on as he created a HTML5 video + canvas sample that mimics the TV effect.
I just finished doing some talks on geo hacking (slides are available here) and how to use some of the Geo technologies Yahoo and Google provide as part of a University gig in Atlanta.
Erik Dahlström and Vincent Hardy have put together a cool website, called SVG Wow!, that showcases SVG doing things you didn’t expect SVG can do:
There are alot of unique demos on there.
The Ext JS team have announced the 3.2 beta which includes new components and goodness.
Take the animated DataView transitions for example:
On top of that, the release includes:
Multiple sorting and filtering on Ext.
Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun example of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly.