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Getting to the depths of “time”

Ajaxian  Apr 13 09

PPK has a nice detailed posting on the HTML 5 time tag and he asserts: The HTML 5 spec introduces the element to mark up a date or time. Although I support the inclusion of these semantics in HTML, I believe that the current specification of the element is vague because it avoids the [...] Full story...

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Mozilla Labs releases alpha version of contacts in the browser

Ajaxian  3 days ago

Michael Hanson and a team at Mozilla Labs have been doing some really interesting work with Identity in the browser (and taking ownership back from services).

Jetpack SDK: The reboot of the extensions

Ajaxian  3 days ago

The Jetpack project over at Mozilla Labs has been rethinking what it is to extend the browser (as has Chrome Extensions).

Talking about Douglas Crockford’s good parts

Ajaxian  4 days ago

It was St. Patricks Day last night, and I have a funny feeling that some green beer and Guiness lead to Brian LeRoux and Rob Ellis creating Crockford Facts.

RequireJS: Asynchronous JavaScript loading

Ajaxian  4 days ago

A certain someone was talking to me about how they find it interesting that node.js, the JavaScript server framework du jour which loves all things async, starts life with a bunch of synchronous require() calls.

A typeface created in CSS

Ajaxian  5 days ago

David Desandro has developed a newtypeface family named Curtis and done so in an interesting way....

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

Ajaxian  5 days 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  6 days 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  6 days 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  Mar 15 10

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  Mar 15 10

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.



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