If you won’t file a bug, maybe test in a screen reader?
Ajaxian Dec 31 08John Resig wants us to file bug reports to browser vendors but what about accessibility? Is that a responsibility that we have as Web developers? Todd Kloots of Yahoo! shows us how to configure our machine for screen reader testing with full instructions: When developing using the WAI-ARIA Roles and States, you need to test your code [...] Full story...
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IE9 Canvas Support Leaked by AMD?
Ajaxian 3 days agoI was on a panel at OSBC with Dave Mcallister of Adobe and Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft. I wanted to talk to Brian about canvas in IE9 but held off until later where I even offered the community up to write the IE code ;)
Someone off the record told me last week “it is coming… [.
Mozilla Labs releases alpha version of contacts in the browser
Ajaxian 3 days agoMichael 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 agoThe 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 agoIt 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 agoA 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 agoRey 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 10Cedric 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.
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