Web standards
- Learning from our Mistakes: The Failure of OpenID, AtomPub and XML on the Web
- W3C Weekly newsletter
- WHATwg weekly
- MDC Documentation sprint you can also participate to the Open Web Platform wiki
- Egypt Internet Shutdown Q&A
- Today, Web Development Sucks
- A new DAP WG
HTTP / URI
- Cutting The Interrogation Short about UA and features sniffing
- Lest We Forget (Or How I Learned What’s So Bad About Browser Sniffing)
- Performance Innumeracy & False Positives
- Test Cases for HTTP Content-Disposition header field and the Encodings defined in RFC 2047 and RFC 2231/5987
Mobile
- Widgets Runtime: WAC 1.0-supporting Beta2 for Android
- Opera Mobile Emulator and Opera Mini Simulator
- New Firefox 4 Beta for Android and Maemo is Faster than Ever
- Making it a Mobile Web app
HTML5
- The WebKit PreloadScanner “During this time, the HTMLPreloadScanner looks ahead in the source for subresource downloads which can be started speculatively.”
- Facebook chooses HTML5 because the fragmentation over native apps are too costly.
- “Classy HTML”: A Speculative Design Pattern about Classes and Composition
- HTML5 and Web Video: Questions for the Industry from the Community
- Long Descriptions and Political Cartoons
- The Newsonomics of apps and HTML5
Web API
- Getting in Touch about Touch events specification
- Simple Offline Application
- HTML5 mobile web applications: running offline
- Web Audio API in Chrome
- Gecko FullScreen API
- HTML5 canvas sprite optimisation
- WebGL Earth is an open source software enabling to explore, zoom and “play” with the globe in any browser on any platform including mobile devices. The project lives from support and cooperation of developer community.
- Device element being implemented in webkit
- Video Chat use case
- Proposal for a page visibility API
- WebGL
- Quota API to query/request quota for offline storages (e.g. IndexedDB, FileSystem)
- Bulletproofing the WebSocket Wire Protocol
Javascript / DOM
- Emscripten is an LLVM-to-JavaScript compiler. It takes LLVM bitcode (which can be generated from C/C++, using llvm-gcc or clang, or any other language that can be converted into LLVM) and compiles that into JavaScript, which can be run on the web (or anywhere else JavaScript can run).
- innerText DOM Specification
- PhantomJS is a minimalistic, headless, WebKit-based, JavaScript-driven tool.
- ECMAScript 5 compatibility table Big room for improvements for Opera 11
- Script execution order post-mortem
- audiolib.js is a powerful audio tools library for javascript.
- ECMAScript 5 strict mode in Firefox 4
- jQuery UI Blog
- Proxlet Proxy made with NodeJS
- JavaScript bindings to Yet Another JSON Library
- BitmapData.js HTML5 Canvas API implementation of the AS3 BitmapData class.
CSS
- CSS3 selectors for IE
- blocking wrapping Japanese words with CSS see the discussion on www-style mailing list.
- Revised Font Stack
- The New Bulletproof @Font-Face Syntax
SVG
Semantic Web
- Fast SPARQL XML Results Parser in Python
- Implementing SPARQL 1.1 Query - first findings
- The Case for Curies
- Basing Design Decisions on “Those Six Guys”
Opera
Promoting interoperability is at the heart of Open The Web.