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What’s New in HTML 5: From the Large to the Nitty Gritty

Ajaxian  Oct 08 09

Hot off the presses comes a new This Week in HTML5 episode. In this episode Mark Pilgrim notes: Since I started publishing these weekly summaries over a year ago, I’ve watched the HTML5 specification grow up…Slowly, steadily, and sometimes painstakingly, the HTML5 specification has matured to the point where the hottest topic last week was the [...] Full story...

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IE9 Canvas Support Leaked by AMD?

Ajaxian  3 days ago

I 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 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.



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