Monday, November 29th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
There are a number of resources on the Internet for reading up on JavaScript but very few viable options for actually exchanging ideas with extremely knowledgeable JavaScript developers, especially when it comes to just wanting to know about JavaScript itself and not a specific JS library. This was a pain point I (Rey) personally felt Read the rest…
Sunday, November 28th, 2010
Cross document messaging is addressed in a recent HTML5 Web Messaging Working draft from the redoubtable W3C. The proposed messaging system is said to “allow documents to communicate with each other regardless of their source domain, in a way designed to not enable cross-site scripting attacks.” For more on the w3C draft, go to its Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 17th, 2010
Category: Browsers, IE
, Microsoft
The IE9 team announced that they’ll be hosting an open Q&A session via Twitter where developers can ask questions to the Chakra engineers about the new JavaScript engine. In conjunction with the release of Platform Preview 7, we wanted to give the community the opportunity to ask questions of some of our IE and Chakra Read the rest…
Friday, November 12th, 2010
Category: Firefox, JavaScript
Mounir Lamouri looks at native browser-side form validation in Firefox4 – while re-iterating the need for re-validating on the server-side too. The objective of the browser-side form validation is to relieve JavaScript of the need to do a lot of basic form checking. Lanouri writes: ”All new input types introduced with HTML5 forms except search Read the rest…
Thursday, November 11th, 2010
Category: Android, Firefox
, Mobile
A new beta for mobile this way comes. Outstanding issues addressed include reduced memory usage, improved text rendering install size reduction on Android.
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
