This Week in HTML 5: Web Forms 2, Search, and more
11 Oct 2008 5:43am GMT In Mark’s eighth roundup of HTML 5 land, he delves into the merging of Web Forms 2, which gives us fun things like: input type=”email” input type=”url” inpu type=”number” input type=”range” input type=”date” input type=”time” input type=”datetime” input type=”week” input type=”month” Then Mark discusses input type=”search”: Andy Lyttle wants to standardize one...
Maintainable JavaScript videos are now available.
11 Oct 2008 12:13am GMT One month ago, the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam featured several “deep dive” talks on various web development topics. Stuart Langridge for example explained in detail what closures are and I talked about Maintainable JavaScript. The slides of my talk have been available for quite a while now and now Bachelor ICT have released the videos [...]
Reinhardt: a Client-side Dispatch Framework
10 Oct 2008 11:32am GMT Kevin Dangoor of SitePen has introduced Reinhardt a dispatch engine on the client side: A typical server-side web framework today includes three main components: a URL dispatching to some controller object scheme, a template engine, and a data mapping facility. Currently in Dojo, you’ll find that the latter two items already exist. dojox.dtl provides the first [...]
IE8 and Standards
10 Oct 2008 10:26am GMT Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software has updated his post on IE 8 to cover beta 2: XDomainRequest: Microsoft unfortunately continues with XDomainRequest rather than making changes to XMLHttpRequest as other browsers are doing and as is being standardized by the W3C Web Apps Working Group. (Disclaimer: I am the editor of XMLHttpRequest Level 2.) [...]
An Interesting Twist on a Pastebin
9 Oct 2008 3:52pm GMT Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they're easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting. Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static [...]