iOS 4.2 brings Accelerometer and WebSockets support
The recently released iOS 4.2 brings some major additions to mobile Safari, including accelerometer and gyroscope support (through the DeviceOrientation API, WebSockets support, and TrueType fonts support.
For acceleration, there’s now a new “ondevicemotion” event to tinker around with. For the gyroscope (for devices that support it), the data [...]

Microsoft accused of cheating the SunSpider benchmark
Perhaps one of the biggest pieces of JavaScript news this week is that suspicions have grown that the Internet Explorer 9 team cheated the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark. The allegation resulted from Mozilla developer Rob Sayre finding a specific test that completed ten times faster than in any other [...]

node-canvas: Server side HTML5 canvas API
node-canvas (on GitHub) is a project to get the HTML5 canvas API working on the server. On first glance this may seem completely pointless, but as you begin to think about it, it really makes sense. There are still a lot of people using browsers that don’t have [...]

Introduction
This week’s news is self-admittedly Yahoo-centric, so apologies in advance! It’s been a bit of a slow news week in general, which means this week’s news we’ll be more in the style of checking out some interesting JavaScript discussions instead of reviewing new libraries or scripts.
Face Detection with Canvas
Chinese developer Liu Liu has ported [...]