http://www.dotnetfrenzy.com An ASP.Net Developers Blog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 11:16:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Jetpack project over at Mozilla Labs has been rethinking what it is to extend the browser (as has Chrome Extensions). They both move us to using Web technologies and skills rather than having to digg into XUL or C++. The project has gone through a reboot, and shed the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/UP_Jc0xFVRQ/jetpack-sdk-the-reboot-of-the-extensions On Monday I had the opportunity to present the MIX 2010 Day 1 Keynote in Las Vegas (you can watch a video of it here).  In the keynote I announced the release of the Silverlight 4 Release Candidate (we’ll ship the final release of it next month) ... http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/03/18/building-a-windows-phone-7-twitter-application-using-silverlight.aspx It was St. Patricks Day last night, and I have a funny feeling that some green beer and Guiness lead to Brian LeRoux and Rob Ellis creating Crockford Facts. It isn’t Friday yet…. well it is in Australia right? Silliness. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/WQmafIwWIpI/crockford-facts A certain someone was talking to me about how they find it interesting that node.js, the JavaScript server framework du jour which loves all things async, starts life with a bunch of synchronous require() calls. Now, this is actually quite fine since the startup of the server is not the ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/Rhv2mXvGvDc/requirejs-asynchronous-javascript-loading David Desandro has developed a newtypeface family named Curtis and done so in an interesting way.... using CSS: Each character is wrapped in a <span> and then depending on the complexity of that character, more empty <span> elements are added to the markup to render each shape. Here's the markup for ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/6UiO0uB0wV0/a-typeface-created-in-css Disclaimer: Ben and I work for Palm and created this program. I wanted to make sure that you were aware of it over here, since Web developers have a great chance of getting some $ :) At Palm we wanted to reward the mobile Web developers who build great applications that ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/ZtMO4ieJ9Rw/hot-apps-using-1m-to-reward-440-mobile-web-developers Rey Bango (Ajaxian and now Microsoft employee) will do a post that rounds up the news from MIX today where the IE9 team shared a first preview release of IE9 that comes with new features from HTML5+ (video, SVG, CSS3, addEventListener, JavaScript compilation spread across multicore, and more). All of ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/iPP3s_-0rSs/microsoft-loves-jquery The Chromium folk have posted about JavaScript conformance as they release a test runner for Sputnik, that allows you to easily run the complete test suite from within your browser: Sputnik touches all aspects of the JavaScript language defined in the 3rd edition of the ECMA-262 spec. In many ways it ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/p95O61nbIEY/sputnik-gets-more-tests-how-compliant-are-the-browsers Cedric Dugas feels so passionate about fixed positioning in WebKit that he created A Better Mobile Web to talk about it: The Problem It is impossible to have an element fixed in CSS on the page in the mobile Webkit browser. When you are surfing the web on your phone, webkit opens ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/Lo7pIbvSmtg/a-better-mobile-web-what-else Ben Cherry has a really nice detailed analysis of the module pattern. He starts with the simple pattern that Crock-y documented back in the day..... and then goes on to discuss augmentation (loose and strict) and then deeper into some cool patterns: Cloning and Inheritance PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var MODULE_TWO = (function (old) {   ... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ajaxian/~3/MgWG_cdA-CI/a-deep-dive-and-analysis-of-the-javascript-module-pattern