Douglas “My Guns Are Bigger Than Yours” Crockford sent us a pointer to Moonwatcher’s post on entitled “My MacBook Pro runs JavaScript 26.7x as fast as my iPad“.
After Moonwatcher ran SunSpider on the iPad, he concluded:
It’s one thing not to be able to run Flash apps. But JavaScript performance like this effectively means the iPad [...]
For some time now, Adobe has been working with platform vendors to include the Flash plug-in pre-loaded. We’ve seen this ages ago in Windows, and more recently with Adobe’s efforts in the Open Screen Project.
Now, there’s news of something a little bit different. In our second Google-y post of the week, there’s the news that [...]
Tutorialzine is a nice blog but I think sometimes it should should re-dimension chosen titles.
I have discovered only yesterday and thanks to my good old favorite Web related italian blog, a nice (or if you prefer another) jQuery lightbox style experiment.
The post is complete with examples and explanation over PHP, CSS, jQuery, and finally jQuery [...]
Our favorite ex-Yahoo at-Google web performance fast-driving all-around guru Steve Souders took a look at @font-face performance recently:
There have been a number of great posts about @font-face performance issues:
* Paul Irish: Fighting the @font-face FOUT
* Stoyan Stefanov: Gzip your @font-face files
* Zoltan Hawryluk [...]
Over the past few weeks we’ve finalized over 40 key sessions across 7 tracks for The Ajax Experience conference, including Frameworks, User Experience, Standards and Cross-Browser Issues, High Performance and Scalability, Security, Architecture, JavaScript, and Cutting-Edge Ajax. The agenda-at-glance is ready for your review now. There’s something for everyone! Check it out
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Keynote presentations examine advancements being [...]
”When the heck are you guys going to open registration for The Ajax Experience this year!?”
Over the last 3 months that is, without question, the most frequently received email we’ve had from Ajaxian members like you. The good news is that the wait is finally over! Registration has officially opened for this year’s Ajax Experience [...]
Today’s post of Ajax Experience videos from our Fall 2008 show features jQuery. Enjoy!
Intro to jQuery with John Resig
Advanced jQuery with John Resig
An In-Depth Look at jQuery UI with Paul Baukus
Rich Interactivity, Simplified, with jQuery UI with Richard Worth
jQuery on Rails (The Real Ones) with Jonathan Sharp
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Chris Carpenter at Digital Carpenter sent us a link to one of his projects: Doculicious. It’s a fairly complete form builder product, including a GUI form designer (complete with undo, floating collapsable attribute palette, etc.), cool on-line form entry interface (also with undo), and PDF export.
Doculicious uses Dojo under the covers. Nice work!