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Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need
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With a mobile-first responsive design approach, if any part of the process breaks down, your user can still receive a representative image and avoid an unnecessarily large request on a device that may have limited bandwidth. But with several newer browsers implementing an “image prefetching” feature that allows images to be fetched before parsing [...]
3.5.0pr2 is available
We deployed the second 3.5.0 preview release right on time, celebrated for a couple minutes, then went back to work on PR3, which will be the gating preview before 3.5.0 GA in mid-March.
But we’ll stop to take a breath and highlight some of the changes in PR2. You’ve read the short list [...]
HP continues to divulge bits and pieces of a road map for the ill-starred and nearly-orphaned webOS. The company has followed up its December plan to release webOS mobile platform and development tools with a proposed timeline, with a full release set before year’s end. Some people see a life for the associated Enyo JavaScript [...]
Two years ago, we set out on a journey to make the web mobile. Today, we’re raising the bar with the release of Sencha Touch 2 Beta.
Thank you to our community for your feedback during our sneak peaks with our Preview Releases. Your contributions in the forums, reporting bugs, adding feature requests, and your inspirational [...]
Hey there Internets, it’s the jQuery Core team! We haven’t talked in a while, but over the holidays we were busy fixing the bugs you reported. The result of that hard work is jQuery 1.7.2 Beta 1. We decided to get a beta out by Groundhog Day so you wouldn’t be in the shadow of [...]
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YUI Theater — Paul Donnelly: “Using Yahoo! Pipes and the YQL Module” (39 min.)
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In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YQL engineer Paul Donnelly demonstrates the features of the Yahoo! Pipes editor and explains how you can use Pipes and YQL to power your web apps, create mashups, and more.
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We are excited to announce that the first minor release update for Sencha Animator is now available. In addition to general bug fixes, we’re happy to introduce a few new features and improvements to make working with Animator easier and more productive.
Experimental support for Firefox 7+
Firefox recently introduced support for CSS animations, and we [...]
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Shim uses node.js to test sites on multiple browsers
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Shim was developed within the Boston Globe’s media lab as a way to study how Web sites look on various devices and browsers. A laptop intercepts all wifi traffic – this is redirected to a custom node.js server – which inserts a javascript, or “shim,” at the head of each web page that is visited.
The [...]
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YUI Theater — Jeff Burtoft: “Scaling Mobile with YUI” (49 min.)
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In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen), Lead Frontend Engineer at USAA, shares what he’s learned about building performant and scalable cross-platform mobile web apps using YUI. In the course of the talk, Jeff reveals some of the pitfalls of dealing with device limitations — particularly when building native-wrapped web apps that run [...]
The new Nanocrowd app helps you find great movies to watch instantly on your iPad.
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Nanocrowd develops technology that understands why people like things. Our first use of this technology is helping people find movies they’ll enjoy. By knowing why people like things, we can [...]