Archive for April 2011

News roundup: JSConf 2011, window.matchMedia(), pngtocss, speech input in Google Translate, window.maxConnectionsPerServer in IE9

Play the podcast for this week’s news (New and experimental, oh noes!)
I’m on the road to JSConf 2011 – literally! Drove all day yesterday, slept at a rest area (trying to save money), and I’m now sitting comfortably inside a Starbucks here in Portland, commandeering their Wifi.
There’s an awesome speaker lineup and it promises [...]

News roundup: Modern JavaScript, V8Monkey and SpiderNode, Adapt.js

Modern JavaScript
Modern JavaScript by Rebecca Murphey makes the case that we still have a ways to go in the JavaScript community in terms of dependency management, cross-code communication, and modularity of code, and argues in support of the AMD proposal (Asynchronous Module Definition API). In short, she makes the case that we haven’t found [...]

News roundup: iOS viewport fixes, Mobile Boilerplate, CommunityJS, Ender.js

iOS Viewport Fixes
With the rise of mobile, desktop developers have had to wrestle with new and uncharted territories, particularly in cases where there’s no close resemblance to a familiar feature on desktop browsers. One good example of this is changing screen orientation, which is roughly analogous to a resize event (which by the way [...]




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