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Introducing Chrome for Android Beta

9-bits — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:50:36 -0800

Matt Seeley, Webkit in Your Living Room Netflix delivers...

9-bits — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:48:38 -0800

Netflix delivers highly dynamic WebKit based UIs to televisions, game consoles and Blu-ray players. Matt will discuss fluid animation with hardware acceleration; achieving high framerates using accelerated compositing; responding to constant user input; as well as balancing strategies for best performance on over 450 high-end to low-end devices.

Use CSS transitions to link Media Queries and JavaScript

jordandobson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:11:46 -0800

Use CSS transitions to link Media Queries and JavaScript:

brothersunion:

This is a brilliant way to get JS support for media queries. CSS3 to the rescue!

Implementing responsive design can take more than just moving UI elements around, sometimes you want to change functionality of the app as well. This gets us where we can do that pretty reliably.

Making Love to WebKit

9-bits — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:51:48 -0800

Making Love to WebKit:

Steven Wittens redesigns Acko.net with some awesome 3d and parallax effects, based on three.js and a custom CSS3 3d renderer.

Profiling CSS for fun and profit.

9-bits — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:16:20 -0800

Profiling CSS for fun and profit.:

Juriy Zaytsev (aka Kangax) experiments with CSS3 and some of the emerging CSS performance profilers coming out. Lots of good tips included, as well as some surprising results: For example, did you know the degree of a rotation transform dramatically changes how long it takes the element to render?

HTML5 Scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire

9-bits — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:14:06 -0800

HTML5 Scorecard: Amazon Kindle Fire:

We take a look at the power and performance offered by Amazon’s latest entry in the tablet market.

"Basically, we’re back where we started when Leo Apotheker got HP into this mess, and the dream..."

9-bits — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 10:49:06 -0800

“Basically, we’re back where we started when Leo Apotheker got HP into this mess, and the dream of millions of webOS fans is fading fast.”

- Meg Whitman promises webOS decision in two weeks

iOS 5 Safari Bugs: Trio of Test Cases

9-bits — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 09:26:06 -0800

iOS 5 Safari Bugs: Trio of Test Cases:

Zachary Johnson shares a few test cases for some recent annoying bugs revolving around position: fixed and translate being applied to form fields.

“GoWebGL is a (very) simple WebGL enabled browser for iOS...

9-bits — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:40:05 -0800

“GoWebGL is a (very) simple WebGL enabled browser for iOS 5 enable devices using UIWebView hack and gesture to dispay / navigate content.”

RIM’s unsold PlayBook inventory: Probably 1 million units

9-bits — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:50:06 -0800

RIM’s unsold PlayBook inventory: Probably 1 million units:

Sad news, for one of the better implementations of Mobile WebKit that I’ve seen so far.

Paul Irish covers some of the impressive new Chrome Developer...

9-bits — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 14:40:05 -0800

Paul Irish covers some of the impressive new Chrome Developer Tools. It’s no surprise he was named .net’s Developer of the Year

Galaxy Nexus review

9-bits — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:50:05 -0800

Galaxy Nexus review:

The Verge (easily any geek’s favorite new tech blog) does a proper review of Android’s next big hardware release, and more importantly, Ice Cream Sandwich:

There are some minor issues with the browser — like the fact that it doesn’t seem to be rendering certain elements (such as TypeKit correctly, and some of its JavaScript performance seems laggy in comparison to Mobile Safari. Still, it’s one of the best mobile browsing experiences I’ve ever had. I used to dread having to use the browser on the Nexus S. This is the polar opposite.

Icon Fonts are Awesome

9-bits — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 11:15:06 -0800

Icon Fonts are Awesome:

Chris Coyier has created an awesome article/live demo of the benefits in using @font-face for your icons. I have been discovering the very same thing in my own work, and am currently discussing the inclusion of the Pictos Font, by Drew Wilson, into Sencha Touch. It’s also worth noting that there are a few useful options in the open source world, and Simurai is doing a bang-up job of archiving both commercial and free sets on Delicious.

Another day, another sweet visualization accomplished with...

9-bits — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 10:08:58 -0800

Another day, another sweet visualization accomplished with WebGL. (via Beautiful Pixels)

qualitybots

9-bits — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:34:06 -0800

qualitybots:

A tool for automated comparison of website layouts across multiple Chrome versions.

CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling

9-bits — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 13:41:06 -0800

CSS box-shadow Can Slow Down Scrolling:

Ross Allen from AirBNB dissects the cost of different box-shadow values on WebKit’s scrollTo performance, with an in-depth look at paint times.

CSS Dock An experiment mimicking the Dock of OS X using only...

9-bits — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:14:05 -0800

CSS Dock

An experiment mimicking the Dock of OS X using only CSS. Labels, animations, reflections and indicators… it’s all there. This is Version 2 of my CSS Dock featuring leaner code and better documentation. Check it out on GitHub. Looking for the old version?

(via decodering)

Taking a new device API for a spin

9-bits — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 10:50:05 -0800

Taking a new device API for a spin:

James Pearce finds a sweet new API for the iPhone’s compass, and takes it for a test drive, in iOS5.

"We will continue to leverage our experience with Flash to accelerate our work with the W3C and..."

9-bits — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 12:10:43 -0800

“We will continue to leverage our experience with Flash to accelerate our work with the W3C and WebKit to bring similar capabilities to HTML5 as quickly as possible, just as we have done with CSS Shaders.”

- Adobe

9-bits: Finally.

9-bits — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 10:42:31 -0800

9-bits:

Finally.