I hadn’t realized until very recently that the not-yet-released Palm Pre is wholly implemented using not much more than Webkit and HTML technologies. The entire platform is called WebOS, but it’s little more than a shell that is designed to run Webkit. This is an ingenious move in creating a smartphone, for a few reasons. [...]
Damn! It’s even faster now, AND a new version of Webkit! This brings Chrome up to at least the same Webkit version as Safari 4.
I’ve been working on some demonstrations on how to combine jQuery UI and CSS animations for some pretty neat effects. Not to pimp my other businesses too much or anything, but check out blaq design if you want to see an eCommerce site done up with jQuery UI as well.
This video on software quality was released by Douglas Crockford quite some time ago, but I just recently found it. Douglas is one of the Javascript architects at Yahoo, and he speaks compellingly about building quality into software projects. I found his ideas on why projects fail to be particularly interesting. It’s a longer video, [...]
I’ve been working a lot more on CSS animations lately. There’s not much documentation out there and what is available is incomplete, so working with them is definitely a bit of a chore. I’ve been creating some examples that are pretty cool and demonstrate some more difficult techniques. They only work in Safari and Chrome, [...]
