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Skype Aware Of XSS Vulnerability In iOS Apps, " Working Hard To Fix" It
HTML5: briefing notes for journalists and analysts
Get a sneak peak of UX improvements to Firefox
BrowserID demo from the Mozilla All-Hands - Identity on the web
Google brings flight search into the Jet Age
Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart
Critics call foul as Google takes aim at JavaScript with Dart …
Demonstrates how to make iOS and Android web apps
Explains how to capture player input; create 3D graphics; and incorporate textures, lighting, and sound
Guides you through the process of creating a game from scratch using Canvas, HTML5 Audio, WebGL, and WebSockets
By the end of this invaluable book, you will have created a fully functional game that can be played in any compatible browser or on any mobile device that supports HTML5> If you'd like to …
…Scott Jehl has written some code that normalizes hiding the address bar on both iOS and Android. It also seems to explain why we should use scrollTo(0,1) instead of scrollTo(0,0).
maddy is a functional object operations library
Tidbits (articles and such)
What's different in the new WebSocket protocol ( HTML5Rocks)
Christian Heilmann points out that Firefox 7 now does reverse geocoding in navigator.geolocation (ip to address lookup)
Joe Hewitt is back at work on Scrollability, and claims that iOS 5 will still need it, despite natively supporting position:fixed and overflow:scroll elements. He has a new demo which now uses -webkit-keyframes for much improved performance. And a version 1.0 release with documentation is right around the corner .
Next Mobile Features is a blog post outlining some wish-list features for mobile devices, including JavaScript APIs for triggering and controlling …
…hard work that went into this release. This app has a bunch of native and Web integration. Our Android and mobile Web teams have worked together to great affect, and although this is just the very tip of the iceberg, it has been great to see!
Remember, if you want to do Android, iOS, or bleeding edge mobile Web development that reaches millions of users globally, please let me know. Join us, the water is warm!
…feature in Sencha Touch 2. With just one command, you can package your application for iOS and for Android. You'll no longer need to write your own wrappers or wrangle with other solutions, it's all built in to Sencha Touch. Best of all, you'll be able to package for both iOS and Android from both Mac and Windows.
HTML5 Device API s aren't fully available on mobile browsers yet, so we're adding many of the native device API s into the packager…
…apps is a fair one. I think that it *is* somewhat easier to create a cookie cutter native app for say iOS using CocoaTouch, and the really excellent tools Apple has been working on since the NeXT days. But it's also important to note that for many categories of applications, for example games, these apps use technologies like Unity3D, so in a sense many of the most successful, most engaging applications people use on say iOS aren't native. I think it really comes down to the …
Well, not only downloads on the fly , the data uri works for almost everything ( only iOS 5 beta does not want to work with inline data uri AUDIO sources .... but this is another story ... ) ... so ...
How To Simulate Script injection Let's say you want a test but you don't want to bother a server. However, you want to be sure the test is asynchronous and it simulates the server.
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Last week I introduced Robert's read and now it's time again for my reading list for the latest week.
Tip: remember, you can always find all my reading suggestions in the Robert's read category .
Robert's read for August 24th 2011
A great graphic explaining the Firefox Release Channels . The Channels themselves are at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/channel/
Millennial: Android Tops iOS For The Eighth Month…
…experience is in the cloud, and the synergy concept can now truly go where ever you want, even onto iOS and Android. The core WebKit platform could join the PhoneGap project. Now the Web gets a massive boost. Instead of waiting for the Web features to trickle into the Android and iOS WebKit implementations, we could rally behind a WebKit (or Gecko if they work with Moz!) platform that you can target on any platform. Chrome Frame for Mobile. We need it to compete.
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