8Jul 09
The BBC have released their own reusable JavaScript library as an open source project at http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/. Previously, this library was for internal BBC use only and its opening up to the community is a good step in reaching out to web developers the world over.
The library itself clocks in at 84 kB minified and ticks most of my boxes for a worthwhile JavaScript library (see Chapter 2 of my book to read more about my criteria). I commend this action and recommend this library – its support by the BBC means the community is in good hands.
Posted in Web Development
28May 09
Google’s I/O conference has been going on full steam with lots of new announcements and products from the Google camp. One particular piece of news that struck me with great interest was that Google have released a YouTube demo site which implements the new HTML5 <video> tag. This means native browser playback of video files [...]
26May 09
I’m really pleased to announce the release of my first book, Pro JavaScript RIA Techniques: Best Practices, Performance, and Presentation.
5Feb 09
It appears that there is an issue with plug-ins in Safari which results in no mouse button event being fired in JavaScript when using the right mouse button (context menu) on any portion of an element positioned absolutely over that plug-in.
29Sep 08
Microsoft and Nokia and the latest to lend their support to John Resig’s jQuery JavaScript library project, increasing its appeal even further.
19Sep 08
I’ve been reading, as I am sure you have too (right?), about the ongoing competition that’s breaking out between rivals in the browser development world regarding JavaScript performance in their browsers.
First, WebKit announced SquirrelFish, their super-fast JS engine that kicked the pants of anything in the current browsers (as far as I am aware, this [...]
9Sep 08
An interesting post on using SVG via the Dojo JS library to render custom fonts on your pages: http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/09/08/custom-fonts-with-dojoxgfx/
Limitations include: slow as hell on IE, and slow as hell when replacing more than about 5 headings (as with sIFR). Nice experiment though.
9Sep 08
As you know, Google’s Chrome browser is built on top of WebKit, the same engine used in Apple’s Safari browser among others. Google made a big deal of their new V8 JavaScript engine they’d written for Chrome and it seems like this, and the graphics rendering library they use, are being checked back into WebKit [...]
4Sep 08
Virtual PC can be a very useful tool for testing websites in multiple versions if IE (the software ‘Multiple IEs’ does not render all things like the real McCoy, as we have discovered)…
The updated VPC images from MS are available for download now, and they include:
XP SP3 + IE6
XP SP2 + IE7
XP SP3 + IE8b2
Vista [...]
3Sep 08
Whether the figures stand the test of time or not, we shall see, but as of today/yesterday at least Google’s Chrome browser is responsible for 1% of global market share of the browsers out there. That obviously doesn’t sound like much, but remember it took Firefox some years to reach its current 22% market share. [...]