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HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life …
Facebook Software Engineer and HipHop for PHP team member Jason Evans provides details on Facebook’s move to a new high-performance PHP virtual machine. Described by Evans is ”a new PHP execution engine based on the HipHop language runtime that we call the HipHop Virtual Machine …
IBM’s Rob’s Larsen suggests that there is often a need to build CSS selectors dynamically when building applications. ”This is typically some existing pattern paired with a loop counter or something pulled from a data attribute,” he writes on his blog. His choice is to …
keywords blog, css, css selectors, front page, jquery
Google developer advocate Paul Kinlan has detailed his recent work on a lightweight sharing facility using a very simple intent share protocol. Web Intents began life in 2010. Now, Kinlan and company are looking for feedback. Basically, his intent tag is intended to allow users to more easily mix …
keywords advocate, android, capabilities, front page, google, html5, intents, protocol
In a blog, Opera Software Developer Relations team member Tiffany B. Brown looks at code injection, error throwing and handling and mobile debugging. She notes Opera Dragonfly and its remote debug features provide a way to debug mobile sites from their desktop. Brown mentions WebKit’s …
keywords capabilities, chrome, debugging, developer relations, dragonfly, front page, google, opera software, software developer, team member, testing, webkit
The State – Sort of – of HTML5 Audio
Scott Schiller discusses the high level of hype around HTML5 and CSS3. The two specs render ”many years of feature hacks redundant by replacing them with native features,” he writes in an insightful blog.
Blogging, he says:
CSS3’s …
keywords blog, canvas, css3, front page, gradients, hacks, html5, hype, radius, schiller, text shadow
IBM recently announced the open source contribution of Maqetta to the Dojo Foundation. Maqetta provides WYSIWYG authoring of HTML5 user interfaces using drag/drop assembly, and supports both desktop and mobile user interfaces.
Maqetta is said to target user experience designers working in teams …
keywords application development, dojo, drag drop, experience designers, front page, html5, mobile user, user experience, user interfaces
With Google and their apps like Search, Docs or GMail only a very small time is actually spent in the initial page load, writes Andreas Grabner in a recent blog post. Of course, much time is spent in JavaScript, XHR Calls and DOM Manipulations triggered by user actions. Grabner writes:
It is very …
keywords ajax, apps, best practices, front page, google, manipulations, performance, testing
The Eclipse Foundation now offers sign-up access to a beta version of the OrionHub service, a hosted implementation of Orion tools. Orion is an Eclipse initiative to define a browser-based platform for building and integrating web development tools. Key features of Orion include: a fast editor …
keywords beta version, eclipse, front page, implementation, initiative, javascript html, tools, web development tools, web tools
jQuery Mobile Alpha 3 increases browser support to include Firefox Mobile, Opera Mobile / Mini. Improvements reported on support for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 6, and Palm WebOS. Moreover, the Ajax navigation system has been …
deeply re-factored to improve performance and handle more edge cases. …
keywords ajax, alpha 3, android, blackberry, edge cases, front page, improvements, ios, jquery, mobile, navigation system, palm
