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Full Frontal ‘09: Todd Kloots on ARIA and Acessibility

Ajaxian  Nov 20 09

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...

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Hot Apps: Using $1M to reward 440 mobile Web developers

Ajaxian  9 hours ago

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.

Microsoft

Ajaxian  less than a day ago

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).

Sputnik gets more tests; How compliant are the browsers?

Ajaxian  less than a day ago

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.

A Better Mobile Web; What else?

Ajaxian  2 days ago

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.

A deep dive and analysis of the JavaScript Module pattern

Ajaxian  2 days ago

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.

Ambilight Sample; video and canvas

Ajaxian  5 days ago

Sergey Chikuyonok gets his Philips Ambilight foo on as he created a HTML5 video + canvas sample that mimics the TV effect.

YQL Geo library – all your geo needs in pure JavaScript

Ajaxian  6 days ago

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.

SVG Wow!

Ajaxian  6 days ago

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.

Ext JS 3.2 beta: stores, components, transitions, and themes

Ajaxian  Mar 11 10

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.

CSS3 Please! Instant results… Thank You

Ajaxian  Mar 10 10

Paul Irish and Jonathan Neal have created a fun example of various CSS tweaks that you can make, and see the results instantly.



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