Following
jQuery, JS Mobile and Paul Irish on HTML5 ( SFJS) (September 6, 2011 in San Francisco, CA, USA)
Frontend Conference ( September 9-10, 2011 in Zurich, Switzerland)
dojoconf (September 16, 2011 in Arlington, VA)
CapitolJS (September 18, 2011 in Washington DC)
onGameStart ( September 22-23, 2011 in Warsaw, Poland)
Node.js Conference Italy (September 24, 2011 in Brescia, Italy)
jQuery Conference Boston …
(slides) The State of HTML5: Summer 2011 ( Paul Irish)
(slides) High Performance Mobile ( Steve Souders)
Releases
jQuery Mobile Beta 3 now includes pushState support, iOS5-compatible fixed headers and transitions, and the Mobile Graded Browser Support has also been updated.
GitHub Most Watched This Week ( JavaScript)
paladin …
…FormData and created a page for Navigation Timing API . Paul Irish added browser compatibility info to several pages. Thanks Googlers!
Tom Schuster updated the pages for the global object functions apply , call , and length and the arguments properties callee , caller , and length , and fixed up formatting on a huge number of JavaScript pages.
I invited members of the Austin JavaScript meetup group …
…web fonts.
Update (6-Mar-2011) - Included iOS version information for web font support.
References
yahoo.com/tablet: Lessons from the Tablet Front Page by Matt Seeley
Wretch New Front Page - Featuring CSS3 for the future by Adam Wang
Fighting the @ font-face FOUT by Paul Irish
…don't know much about him - I'm sure I will over time, though! Paul Rouget Paul is the creator of a number of fabulous demos showing what you can accomplish with open web technologies. Sheppy ( Eric Shepherd) Sheppy is the Developer Documentation Lead for Mozilla, and I've seen his name on tons of documentation and he has been doing a enormous amount of good here. Stormy Peters Stormy is the manager for the Developer Engagement Team. For a long time she was the …
Paul suggested that some library could use something like Local Storage to cache the results of these tests locally, but this hardly seems like an answer. First, what if the user upgrades their browser? Guess you have to cache and check against the UA string anyway. And what about the cost of going to storage? Paul reported that these tests can be wicked expensive to run at all, on the order of 30ms for the full suite (which you hopefully won't hit...but sheesh). Reported worst-case …
Update : A way more awesome update with more techniques: Click me!
Warning
: This is hackier and more dirty than anything I have published in recent years, and only works in WebKit. Use with extreme caution.
I'm lazy, show me the end result first!
CSS Animations are great - they are a lot less pain for the normal web developer, are rendered more smoothly as the browser can control the framerate, …
The State of HTML5: Inaugural Address by Paul Irish , from JSConf.eu
Diet noVNC - an JavaScript VNC Viewer in less than 10KB
Techniques for a single stack world by Ryan Dahl , from JSConf.eu
Node-mysql - "A pure node.js JavaScript Client implementing the MySQL protocol", version 0.8 is out.
Socket.IO version 0.6 and 0.6.1 are out with hundreds of fixes!
Socket.IO: WebSockets for everyone by Guillermo…
…innerHTML's Storied Past & HTML's Shiny Future ( Paul Irish)
(audio) FunctionSource Episode Two: A Jolley Time - Ben and Dion chat with Charles Jolley of Strobe/SproutCore.
(audio) The Changelog Episode 0.6.7 - HTML5 Boilerplate, Modernizr, and more with Paul Irish
Releases
YUI 3.4 (now comes with a clientside MVC )
GitHub Most Watched This Week ( JavaScript)
bootstrap …
Video: HTML5, CSS3, and DOM Performance ( Paul Irish)
squish is a node-based CSS compressor from Dustin Diaz (who's releasing an absurd amount of code lately...)
Mozilla JavaScript 2011 - David Mandelin gives an overview of planned improvements to Firefox, including a new debugging API (via a Debug object), incremental garbage collection, and the next planned JIT compiler called IonMonkey
Beyond the browser: Microsoft's ‘ …
