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 six more weeks of unfixed bugs.
You can get the code from the jQuery CDN: http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.2b1.js
Oh, we know what you’re thinking: “Cool, a new version of jQuery; I’ll wait until the final release (...)
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 framework aside from any success or failure webOS ultimately (...)
I just finished writing a book! How cool is that?
HTML5 Games: Creating Fun with HTML5, CSS3 and WebGL
ISBN: 978-1-1199-7508-3
Paperback, ~416 pages
Due out in January 2012
Writing a book is crazy. Like eating strawberries while stabbing yourself in the leg. Painful yet delicious. I have massive respect for people who can just put words on paper like it was nothing.
This has easily been one of the most difficult tasks I've put myself in front of, which I suppose is why I (...)
In December I held a QuirksMode reader survey on Urtak. It had 69 questions, and about 59,000 answers were given by about 1,100 respondents. A few weeks back I published part 1 of my survey. Here’s the next few findings.
About one quarter of the total number of questions was submitted by readers — and some of them are very interesting ones. Even better, I had to reject only a quarter or so of the submitted reader questions. So the collaborative aspect of Urtak is a resounding success.
This (...)
It’s Fab Friday again! I missed last week, felled by a nasty cold. But you can’t keep Fab Friday down. Just back, I decided to roll out this screencast on Autocomplete in the Places Library of the Google Maps API:
As you can see, there’s a lot you can do with autocomplete.
Continuing my attachment to maps of imaginary places, here’s a map of Skyrim, from the video game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
The map uses the Google Maps API Custom Map Type to display custom tiles.
I also love tools that (...)
It’s been a while since I last shared some good reading, but hey, it’s 2012 now, so I thought I’d share my first batch this year!
Tip: remember, you can always find all my reading suggestions in the Robert’s read category Robert’s Read for January 31st 2012
Using the Fullscreen API in web browsers
Finally bringing the possibility of Fullscreen experiences to end users natively in web browsers.
Financial Times Experience with Web Apps
Interview with Financial Times about their move from (...)
