Following
…developers trained to look out for Microsoft platform tie-ins, there are none on this list. Microsoft simply implemented the draft standards with no extensions or gotchas.
Microsoft Gets Some Firsts
In addition to substantial catchup on UI-related features, IE10 also pioneers some new technologies that haven't made it into other browsers yet such as CSS Regions and positioned floats. CSS Regions is a working draft authored by Adobe that enables newspaper style layouts …
…engine? Yeah, that worked out great last time around... We need competition, we deserve options. Microsoft, Google, Apple, Opera and Mozilla are all vital to the ecosystem of the web; to push each other to become better and to foster innovation that everyone gains from. I work for Mozilla, but I would definitely not want to see Firefox (or Gecko's rendering engine) as the only one out there. We need a balance to together form and grow the future of everyone.
To me, when …
…browsers have since followed suit, though many throttle timer resolution to 1s for background tabs. Microsoft found that lowering the timer resolution to 1ms can reduce battery run time by 25%. Internet Explorer 9, in fact, keeps timer resolution at 15.6ms when a laptop is running on battery and only increases to 4ms when plugged in.
The setImmediate() function
The Efficient Script Yielding specification from the W3C Web Performance Working Group defines a new …
…Ecma, pay attention ) as standards body to which to submit JS mainly to give Microsoft grief, since ECMA had bravely standardized some part of the Windows API. But Jan and the entire TC39 TG1 group played fair on ES1, the first ECMA-262 Edition. Microsoft was so happy they standardized early C# and CLI metadata specs at Ecma.
Not Bruce Campbell, so not me. That means I'm the Bad.
Here is something that the Google leak about Dart ( …
Porting Node to Windows With Microsoft's Help
Creating chat roulette with node.js, socket.io, and OpenTok
Upcoming Events
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…eventually to bring IE in line with the other browsers. It's one of many things Microsoft has done recently to open up to being more standards-compliant. And that's the bottom line, really: conditional comments are by definition not standards-compliant.
Releases
pdf.js 0.2 - greatly improved rending
Backbone.js 0.5.0 now supports pushState (with degradation to hash tags for older browsers)
Libraries, frameworks, etc.
DropKick is a jQuery plugin …
…are very engaging. Imagine this paired with touch interfaces and you have the introductory screen Microsoft's Surface table had.
If you want to read more tips or discuss the web with Christian, he's available on Twitter as @ codepo8 .
Janet Swisher
HTML5 and the document outlining algorithm . As dear as this topic is to my tech writer heart, it's also important for anybody creating content for the web.
If you want to read more tips or discuss …
Superagent also has to deal with Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest implementation:
var getXHR = 'XMLHttpRequest' in this ? function (){ return new XMLHttpRequest } : function (){ return new ActiveXObject ( 'Microsoft.XMLHTTP' ) };
I know that to support a wide range of Microsoft's implementations this might need to be extended with Msxml2.XMLHTTP.6.0 , Msxml2.XMLHTTP.3.0 , and Msxml2.XMLHTTP . This is partially documented in Microsoft's XMLHttpRequest Object…
(This is a cross-post from the mailing list , reformatted as HTML.)
Since February, I've been working on writing a detailed specification for browser editing, primarily the document.execCommand() and document.queryCommand*() methods. These were created by Microsoft in the 1990s and were subsequently adopted in some form by all other browsers, and today browsers have to implement them to be compatible with web content, but no detailed specification ever existed. Interoperability …
What does it mean for your relationships with Apple, Google, Microsoft?
We don't expect that it will affect our relationships with other organizations.
Does this replace work that's already being done on Web APIs for desktop and mobile?
We are already pushing hard on new Web APIs, and have been for some time. We'll continue to implement and standardize new APIs for Web content while the B2G project ramps up.
How is this different than the Webian Shell project? …
