The first WebGL specification is here for your holiday leisure reading. The awesome Arun of Mozilla just posted this to the W3C device API group:
Today, the WebGL WG at Khronos released a public draft of the WebGL specification, and we really welcome (and need) wide review. Along with Mozilla folks, the WebGL WG has [...]
A draft of the W3C Capture API has been put out there by the editors.
The Capture API defines a JavaScript API for accessing the microphone and camera of a hosting device.
When I look at the API for getting pictures from a camera I got a little scared at the amount of DOM fluff around the [...]
ES5 is an ECMA standard.
Let’s hear it for forward progress, even though we want so much more for the only viable language to program the Web client to date.
Let’s have a big “Booo” to IBM for being so stuck up that they think their IEEE decimal position is so freaking important that warrants blocking everything [...]
Sputniktests web runner is a web based porting of the Sputniktests ECMA-262 conformance test suite made by Google.
The aim of this test suite is to understand how compliant is a browser engine and the work @kangax has done in this post is, as usual, complete and loads of analysis about the test suite itself, and [...]
The W3C has published a working draft for the File API which gives us a much improved <input type=”file”> and programmatic ability to work with file uploads and the like.
There are actually a few pieces to this work, which does a good job interfacing with other standards too:
This specification provides an API
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Stephen Shankland pointed to Adrian Bateman of Microsoft speaking up in a W3C list on HTML 5.
Microsoft has been incredibly quiet until now (the IE team at least, Chris Wilson is in another team now) and so it is interesting to get a glimpse of their thoughts (and try to work out what they will [...]
Stephen Shankland pointed to Adrian Bateman of Microsoft speaking up in a W3C list on HTML 5.
Microsoft has been incredibly quiet until now (the IE team at least, Chris Wilson is in another team now) and so it is interesting to get a glimpse of their thoughts (and try to work out what they will [...]
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr
Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day.
First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests…. 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5.
All of the tests are released under New BSD.
Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]
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