PPK has cried "There is no WebKit on mobile!" as he posts new compatibility tables that test WebKit across desktop and mobile: I compare 19 WebKits in order to prove that there is no “WebKit on Mobile” and to figure out which one is the best. My hope is that eventually I’m going to gain some [...] Full story...
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).
The Jetpack project over at Mozilla Labs has been rethinking what it is to extend the browser (as has Chrome Extensions).
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.
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.
David Desandro has developed a newtypeface family named Curtis and done so in an interesting way....
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.