WebKitBits

Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:17:29 -0800

Mozilla borrows from WebKit to build fast new JS engine:

In summary: TraceMonkey wasn’t cuttin’ it.

matthewb: The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven....

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 09:54:28 -0800

The Panic Status Board by Cabel, Steve and Neven. WebKit-powered via AJAX and various APIs, displayed full-screen in Chrome running on a Samsung professional display. Fantastic.

Google Voice in your mobile browser (via Google)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:09:44 -0800

Google Voice in your mobile browser (via Google)

Nettuts+ has released a quick tip (with source code) on HTML5...

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:09:23 -0800

Nettuts+ has released a quick tip (with source code) on HTML5 audio, with an easy way to add it and make it start playing with jQuery.

"As I said at the start of this post, I don’t see this as an us and them, Open Web and Flash. I..."

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 12:42:52 -0800

“As I said at the start of this post, I don’t see this as an us and them, Open Web and Flash. I do see HTML5 plugging the areas that have been held up by Flash for the first decade of this century, and there are other areas that HTML5 supports that Flash doesn’t - but Flash could even make use of, such as Offline Applications.”

- Remy Sharp, HTML5 vs. Flash

Do try this at work

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:42:51 -0800

Do try this at work:

Andy Clarke suggests a great little question you can pose to clients:

What would you prefer me to do?

Spend my time hacking around issues in older technologies like Internet Explorer 6 or would you like that time spent making the site look the best that it can on better desktop browsers, as well as on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Blackberry and a whole host of other mobile devices?

jacob: I always have to stop and think when setting a border...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:42:11 -0800

jacob:

I always have to stop and think when setting a border radius in CSS, so I built a tool for it: border-radius.com.

Google Voice is delivered as an HTML5 web app and ReadWriteWeb...

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:32:00 -0800

Google Voice is delivered as an HTML5 web app and ReadWriteWeb asks: is it good eno ugh?

Introducing Web SQL Databases

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:17:09 -0800

Introducing Web SQL Databases:

Remy Sharp:

The Web SQL database API isn’t actually part of the HTML5 specification, but it is part of the suite of specifications that allows us developers to build fully fledged web applications, so it’s about time we dig in and check it out.

A demo of the new Google Chrome for Mac beta which supports...

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:08:52 -0800

A demo of the new Google Chrome for Mac beta which supports extensions and bookmark syncing.

"Every major mobile platform is now either using WebKit or will be soon. Except for one."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:07:52 -0800

“Every major mobile platform is now either using WebKit or will be soon. Except for one.”

- John Gruber, on RIM’s new WebKit-based browser, the one obvious holdout being Windows Mobile. (via jimray)

We’re Ready for CSS3, but are we Ready for CSS3?

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 11:07:51 -0800

We’re Ready for CSS3, but are we Ready for CSS3?:

Jonathan Christopher walks through some of his favorite CSS3 features, like border-radius, text-shadow, and multiple background images, before diving into his real thesis: The usefulness of these features when dealing with real-world clients.

"If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog..."

Mon, 22 Feb 2010 10:06:38 -0800

“If you’ve wondered why there haven’t been many Gears releases or posts on the Gears blog lately, it’s because we’ve shifted our effort towards bringing all of the Gears capabilities into web standards like HTML5.”

- Ian Fette, Gears Team, Hello HTML5

"The reality is different. W3C Working Groups are battlegrounds where ‘Pay To Play’ combatants fight..."

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:01:50 -0800

“The reality is different. W3C Working Groups are battlegrounds where ‘Pay To Play’ combatants fight war without end for their own or their employer’s (those big business entities that fund the W3C) agendas to succeed. These mercenaries care little for the needs of web designers or developers. We are civilian populations caught up in the fighting.”

- Andy Clarke, Keep calm and carry on (with HTML5)

James Ward, technical evangelist for Flex, on a Flex demo...

Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:01:50 -0800

James Ward, technical evangelist for Flex, on a Flex demo running on Android:

It’s a little slow…

Skyfire to use WebKit for new Android browser

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:40:43 -0800

Skyfire to use WebKit for new Android browser:

Skyfire is traditionally a server-side technology, so their decision to go into rendering, even if only for Android, could be interesting.

SublimeVideo, a beautiful HTML5 video player from Jilion, now...

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 13:09:49 -0800

SublimeVideo, a beautiful HTML5 video player from Jilion, now supports Gecko/Firefox. Note that the WebKit implementation is still a bit more functional, though the team expects the two to be identical when Firefox 3.7 is released.

"Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others..."

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 12:38:47 -0800

“Even if Firefox, IE, and Opera halted development today and added no new features, Apple and others on the WebKit team would be working their butts off to make the web richer - because they want it for themselves.”

- Neven Morgan, The WebKit monopoly

Implementing HTML5 Video on the iPhone

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:05:00 -0800

Jonathan Stark outlines some quick notes about implementing HTML5 video on the iPhone:

Poster image is only displayed until the video is loaded.

True/false attributes do not require values.

Video can be played (and heard) even when not visible.
i.e. video { display: none }

The autoplay attribute is ignored on iPhone.
i.e. will not autoplay no matter what

The controls attribute is ignored on iPhone.
i.e. controls are visible no matter what

The remote file is downloaded whether or not the user clicks play.

You can interact with the DOM while iPhone video player is open.

You can make a video autoplay on iPhone by navigating directly to the video url. However, this is useless within the context of an Ajax app because it spawns a browser window.

BlackBerry has demoed its upcoming WebKit browser today at...

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:44:22 -0800

BlackBerry has demoed its upcoming WebKit browser today at Mobile World Congress. Overall, the browser appears to be quite fast, though it still uses the nubbin/cursor and there isn’t an enormous amount of screen real estate. The new browser achieves a 100/100 on ACID3 and supports HTML5 and CSS3. And yes, it supports AJAX—a big departure from BlackBerry’s current browser which doesn’t even support XMLHttpRequest.