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Web development news for the 3rd week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #62 – January 20th, 2012

The V8 Myth: Why JavaScript is not a Worthy Competitor, JavaScript Design Patterns: Decorators, Simplicity and JavaScript Modules, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #21 – January 18th, 2011

(Better) Tabs with Round Out Borders using CSS3, The Lowdown on :Before and :After in CSS, The CSS3 Click Chart, …

Browsers

Christian Heilmann wrote an interesting article about some real world browser stats.

Web development news for the 2nd week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #61 – January 13th, 2012

What You May Not Know About jQuery (in 5 Methods), JavaScript’s ‘eval’ Considered Crazy, Writing Quality Third-Party JS: Part 1 – The First Rule, …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #20 – January 11th, 2011

Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes, 7 Things Still Missing From CSS, Cut the Rope: A Slick HTML5 Game from Microsoft and ZeptoLab, …

Web development news for the 1st week of 2012:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #60 – January 6th, 2012

WebStorm 3.0: A JavaScript IDE from JetBrains, JsFiddle Tips And Tricks, Matador: An MVC Framework for Node (by Dustin Diaz), …

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #19 – January 4th, 2011

Foundation HTML5 Animation with JavaScript, How Google Ported ‘Angry Birds’ to HTML5, Implementing Minecraft in WebGL, …

Here is some news from the second half of January.

JavaScript

This is an interesting presentation entitled, JavaScript Must Die, by John Graham-Cumming. Obviously, I disagree with the premise, but he looks at the many security flaws in current JavaScript implementations, which makes this a very useful read.

HTML 5

John Resig talks about how to use Web Worker in HTML 5 to improve computing in JavaScript.

John Resig also explores the new HTML 5 parsing specification, which ensures that browsers will finally have common rules for how the DOM should be parsed. Hopefully, we will have less need of browsers specific code in the future.

This is a great HTML5 Security cheat sheet that explains what new security risks you should be aware of in HTML 5, especially if you are letting users input HTML.

Frameworks

The jQuery team has released version 1.5. There are a lot of improvements, but much of the release focused on the complete rewrite of the AJAX engine.

An issue show up on twitter recently, where jQuery querySelectorAll queries slowed way down after twitter upgraded from version 1.4.4 to 1.4.4. The jQuery team has since reverted some changes, which affected the performance. You can read more.

Mobile

PPK comments on the new W3C Touch Event Specification. Read the full specification here.

Other

The YUIBlog posted an article about my book, YUI 2.x Cookook. If you haven’t pick up a copy yet, you can get yourself one here.

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It’s 2011 and the world is a bright new place. Every browser now fully supports the HTML 5 web standards and nobody uses anything but the latest version of each browser… Well, we can all dream. Although, my last statement will never be true, 2011 is still looking to be a great year. Most of the browsers are embracing HTML 5 and web standards, mobile computing is changing the way we experience the web, JavaScript is now a valid server-side language, and the frameworks are maturing nicely.

Anyway, here is some exciting news from the first half of January 2011.

JavaScript

JavaScript weekly is a concise, once-weekly free roundup of JavaScript news and articles. They do a good job collecting and curating relevant JavaScript news from around the web.

scopeleaks.js is an interesting project that allows you to evaluate if miscellaneous variables are being leaked to the global JavaScript scope. Hopefully, you’re writing good code and this isn’t happening, but you can always use this tool as a sanity check.

Frameworks

I ran into this cool article, 2010 Through the Lens of YUI Theatre, by Eric Miraglia of YUI, organizing the many YUI related videos from 2010 into and easy to digest blog post.

It is jQuery 5th birthday and to celebrate the team released version 1.5 Beta 1.

The YUI team has released 3.3.0 and it looks great. I am excited that Ryan Grove has added AutoComplete to the core library and Matt Sweeney has added some exciting syntactic sugar to Node.

The Dojo team has released version 1.6 Beta 1, which introduces compatibility code so you can prepare for switching to Dojo 2.

Other Development

The IEBlog team discusses CSS3 Media Queries, which are useful for targeting CSS to specific browsers, resolutions, and more.

Christian Heilmann shows off his HTML 5/CSS3 based Zooming and Rotating Video Player. It’s cool and the source if available if you want to use it.