Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009
Category: Qooxdoo
Qooxdoo has a new 0.8.3 release that includes a lot: New Form Handling Unified Selection API Advanced Data Binding New FlowLayout New FlashWidget New ThemedIframe Global Error Handling and more … Take a look at the detailed release notes to learn more, and then have a play in the playground to see it at work.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Google has released the long anticipated Chrome Frame. Congrats to Alex Russell for getting this out. He fought browsers to bring us Dojo (with a great team) and now he comes at the problem in another way... from within. What is Chrome Frame? Let Alex tell you! Put this in a page: PLAIN TEXT HTML: Read the rest...
Category: HTML
Are you interested in HTML 5 and what's coming down the pipeline but haven't had time to read any articles yet? I've put put together an educational Introduction to HTML 5 video that goes over many of the major aspects of the new standard, including: Web vector graphics with the Canvas tag and Scalable Vector Read the rest...
Bikin Chiu of the Gmail Mobile team picks up the HTML5 series with a piece on reducing startup latency. It starts off by talking about lazily loading code via the old favorites of adding a <script> to the DOM, or XHR+eval, but then it gets beyond the typical and discusses the nuance of mobile + Read the rest...
Monday, September 21st, 2009
We mentioned that WebGL had landed in WebKit source, when it joined Firefox. Vladimir Vuki?evi? of Mozilla has posted on how it shows up in a nightly instead of just source (which requires a compiler flag etc. This is incredibly exciting, as Jon Tirsen said: Your next 3D shooter will sport a nice "Your browser Read the rest...
Category: Conferences, SVG
Exciting news from the SVG world recently: both Microsoft and IBM have announced that they will be gold sponsors of the SVG Open conference this year! They join a roster of sponsors already present, including Google as the conference host. It's going to be really exciting to have both Microsoft and IBM at the show, Read the rest...
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
Vanadium is a new client side validator that allows you to set semantic validation logic via the class attribute. The main page has examples such as: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <input class=":required" type="text"/> <input class=":integer" type="text"/> <input class=":length;4" type="text"/> <input class=":min_length;4" type="text"/> <input class=":format;/^(vanadium)+$/i" type="text"/> <input id="pass" class=":ajax;/username_checker/check.json" type="text"/> <input id="pass" class=":email" type="text"/> <input id="pass" Read the rest...
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
, Storage
, Yahoo!
, YUI
Yahoo this week announced the new release of the Yahooo User Interface library. This is great because it answers the question if the 2.x library is still being maintained whilst 3.0 is out and buzzing. The detailed release notes for YUI 2.8.0 show that there is indeed a lot of maintenance and improvement still being Read the rest...
Category: Fun
This Saturday, the 19th of September is once again talk like a pirate day and there is a terribly easy way this year to turn your boring ol' site into a swashbuckling Piratespeak one. Simply include the following script node at the end of your body element: PLAIN TEXT XML: <script src="http://l.yimg.com/d/lib/ydn/js/pirate1252961643.js"></script> The Piratespeak translation Read the rest...
Category: HTML
Edward O'Connor has created a nice tutorial of HTML5 through the lens of his blog site use case. The HTML5 spec introduces several new sectioning elements to HTML: <article>, <section>, <header> & <footer>, <nav>, <aside>, and <hgroup>. There’s widespread confusion about when to use these elements. I’d like to write a little bit about these Read the rest...
Wednesday, September 16th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Microsoft
, Performance
We posted on Doloto, the Microsoft Research project to help optimize JavaScript via code splitting. Ben Livshits and his team have now released the tool: Doloto is an Ajax application optimization tool, especially useful for large and complex Web 2.0 applications that contain a lot of code, such as Bing Maps, Hotmail, etc. Doloto analyzes Read the rest...
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Category: Accessibility
Andrew Sutherland is giving a presentation at The Ajax Experience tomorrow at 9:30am where he will announce the availability of WAMI (Web-Accessible Multimodal Applications). WAMI is a project out of MIT that lets you plug voice recognition directly into a javascript powered page, and optionally record+save audio files of people talking. There are a couple Read the rest...
Jeffrey Rosen has taken a look at a preview of WebGL landing in the WebKit project. The demo above is an example of this work (here in HD): WebGL is basically an initiative to bring 3D graphics into web browsers natively, without having to download any plugins. This is achieved by adding a few things Read the rest...
Category: CSS, Performance
Steve Souders is on a tare. First, Browserscope, and now Sprite Me. There are a lot of tools that try to take images and sprite them, but this goes a lot further, so far that it makes it brain-dead simple to sprite. Check out the demo to see it in action. Look at what it Read the rest...
Monday, September 14th, 2009
Category: Browsers, Performance
, Testing
We are good friends with Steve Souders, but his UA Profiler just got beaten by something much better: BrowserScope. Fortunately for him, he and a new team are the ones who beat it :) Lindsey Simon says it best: Browserscope is an open-source project for profiling web browsers and storing and aggregating crowd-sourced data about Read the rest...
Friday, September 11th, 2009
Category: Editorial
Patrick Mckenzie has written an interesting editorial comparing his life as a desktop developer and a Web one. He talks about an application that he has traditionally sold as a desktop app, and how it is faring on the Web. Bingo Card Creator is the application in question, and he has strong opinions :) Over Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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