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BoltJS is a UI framework by Facebook, built on Javelin.
fox.js is a CSS grid maker that uses ASCII art to make the grids. Interesting... hmm...
Creating Fast Buttons for Mobile Web Applications - another article posted earlier this year. Shows how to get around the ~300ms delay on mobile devices. This code has now been adapted to be used elsewhere, including the Mobile Boilerplate .
Scott Jehl has written some code that normalizes …
…makes it quite difficult to write code that works on more than one browser. Javelin was developed at Facebook.
New JavaScript editing features for Web development in Visual Studio 11 Developer Preview
IE10 is coming with loads more HTML5/ CSS3/ JS goodness
Mobile HTML5 is a nice compatibility table for HTML5 support on mobile operating systems
Multimedia
(video) Brendan Eich - Ecma TC39: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly ( TXJS 2011) …
…decentralization of service providers. Instead of "share on Twitter", "share on Facebook", etc. buttons sites can just have "share" button and the user can then select a service provider out of a list of services the user is using. And the way it is designed the type of actions, such as share, is limitless. I guess it remains to be seen how this works out, but it could potentially get us out of the single service provider silos.
There is some discussion going …
…shaneosullivan / boltjs , License: MIT ) by Shane O'Sullivan (and Facebook apparently) is a client-side framework built on Javelin and CommonJS modules. It makes it possible to compose complex widgets from other widgets, then synchronise their data models. To do this, several core modules are used:
Builder - for managing views based on JSON data
Layout Views - includes horizontal and vertical view abstractions, implemented with the CSS …
BoltJS: Another Secret Piece Of Facebook's Spartan Puzzle?
More details about the Mozilla WebAPI effort
AI vs. AI. Two chatbots talking to each other
BitTorrent users don't "act in concert," so judge slashes mass P2P case
Joint Brings Group Chat To Twitter
Apple hands internship to Jailbreakme.com developer "comex"
Anatomy of the UK Charts. Part 5…
…interactive solutions for consumer brands, including CMS and e-commerce websites, mobile and Facebook applications. Emerge offers clients a single source for delivering digital solutions that succeed and thrive in a rapidly changing marketplace. Our promise is to "Inspire and Deliver the Remarkable."
" For a real-time application like ours, responsiveness was critical, and Sencha Touch did not disappoint."
TED x is a program of local events that brings people together …
It is hard for HP to come in and recruit talent, especially now, but Facebook? If they step up to the plate with a killer vision and stock options to boot.... wow. I can see the team now. It is amazing. It has many WebKit engineers (which are much much needed). If I was a college for computer science I would be spending as much time with the WebKit code as possible :)
It would be a crazy big bet for Facebook, but they have the funds and cojones to pull it off. As great as the Web is, …
Most applications center around displaying and interacting with lists and individual pieces of data. Consider applications like GMail, Grooveshark, Twitter, Facebook, and Hulu. Each of these applications displays a list of items where a user can drill down into a single item. In many cases, the user can edit a single item while in the list view.
Displaying a list of items is often the worst performing (in terms of time to display) part of an application. This is for multiple reasons:
…BrowserID & Privacy - It really worries me when people login to sites with their Facebook identity. They are giving control over their identity on the web to a non neutral third party. Mozilla is trying to fix this problem with BrowserID. It will let you login to websites with one ID - in ways that preserve your privacy.
Stormy can be found on Twitter as @ storming
Tristan Nitot
The new release of Firefox has brought us ScratchPad, a very cool new …
…look forward to and something to complement the HTML5 games performance research by Facebook a few months ago .
Lack of semantics in the output
The other issue with Edge that puzzled developers is the HTML that gets generated. As Morena Fiore asked with her Edge demo it seems weird that Adobe doesn't use SVG and Canvas for animating when the output of the tool doesn't feature any semantic HTML whatsoever:
The text content, the tweens …