Mozilla Rainbow
Mozilla Rainbow is a Firefox plugin that enables a JavaScript API for recording audio and video in the browser. It’s part of Mozilla’s plethora of new offerings, and its appearance is relatively late-breaking news, as it was just announced and released just yesterday!
Mozilla has previously dabbled into in-browser audio recording with Jetpack, but [...]

Hello from Tokyo
I’m currently in Tokyo on vacation now, so it’s very likely there will be no update next week. Just a heads up in case you wondered if I fell off the face of the Earth (I didn’t fall off, I just happen to be on the other side).
In the meantime, this week’s [...]

Hello world!
My name is David Calhoun, a frontend engineer at Yahoo! and until relatively recently I worked with Matt Henry on Yahoo! Mobile. Matt has been pretty busy lately, so he’s offered to give me the task of maintaining the blog’s News Roundup and the PDF edition’s Community News. I hope I can [...]

Has.js
Has.js is a new library from Dojo’s Pete Higgins and some other notable Javascripters that allows for easy and systematic Javascript feature detection. The idea is that you have a simple, consistent API for testing whether the interpreter running your code has some or other feature (e.g. querySelectorAll, Function.prototype.bind, and lots of other hotness). This [...]