JavaScript in the age of HTML5 and CSS3 by Faruk Ates
Published January 29th, 2010 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment
Browsers are slowly implementing bits and pieces of HTML 5 and CSS 3. What does this mean for JavaScript? For years, JavaScript authors have created tools and libraries that supplement older browsers with the technologies of modern ones, but the landscape is changing. What are these things that are slowly rendering a useful part of the JavaScript world obsolete, and why is that a good thing for JavaScript authors? Faruk Ate? gives you the answers this JSConf Berlin 2009 talk.
PhoneGap: Mobile Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Published January 26th, 2010 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Brian LeRoux presents PhoneGap, a mobile web framework for creating phone applications using just HTML, CSS and JavaScript without having to program in phone’s native language, Objective C, Java or C++. PhoneGap is open source and currently works on IPhone, Android and Blackberry, supporting features like: geo-location, vibration, accelerometer, sound and contacting support.
http://www.infoq.com/presentations/PhoneGap-Mobile-Applications-with-HTML-CSS-JavaScript
Fighting Layout Bugs
Published January 18th, 2010 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
So you have unit tests, integration tests, and maybe even frontend tests, and you know that your web application does what it is supposed to do. But what about layout bugs? How do you ensure, that every page looks like the designers wanted it to look like? I will present several proven and some novel techniques to help you automatically check the work of your HTML and CSS programmers. I will show examples of typical layout bugs and explain which techniques can be applied to automatically detect/prevent those types of bugs in the future without human intervention.
Even Faster Websites
Published October 7th, 2009 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment
Steve Souders is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.
Browserscope & SpriteMe
Published September 29th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
This talk covers two open source projects being released by Googlers. Browserscope is a community-driven project for profiling web browsers. The goals are to foster innovation by tracking browser functionality and to be a resource for web developers. The current test categories include network performance, Acid 3, selectors API, and rich text edit mode. SpriteMe makes it easy to create CSS sprites. It finds background images in the current page, groups images into sprites, generates the sprite image, recomputes CSS background-positions, and injects the sprite into the current page for immediate visual verification. SpriteMe changes the timeline of sprite development from hours to minutes.
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