Jake explains no-one likes waiting, and people are multi-threaded (except when they have to sneeze). Yet, we're stuck with a single-threaded language for the most part; and we still face the legacy of a DOM standard from another era (DOM Level 1 - 1997). This talk provides some optimisation tips, backed ...

Todd Kloots is talking accessibility and ARIA, with examples showing how YUI nicely supports these techniques. He explains how to improve in three areas: perception, usability, discoverability. Can We Do ARIA Today? Yes. Firefox and IE (he didn't say which version) have really good support for ARIA. ...

Stuart Langridge introduces us to some of the up-and-coming features we're getting with current and future browsers, a nice complement to Robert Nyman's talk, which covered the advanced features of "mainstream" (IE6-compatible) Javascript. After introducing the features that are there today, he also ...

PPK talks up the excitement of mobile web development, but brings the mood down by listing the overwhelming array of browsers to be targeted. Quirksmode says it all. This talk is about quirks in mobile development, and some of the solutions out there. Mobile CSS Quirks So many platforms. Take just WebKit. ...

This is in the crazy but fun category, so I had to post this on a Friday. Toki Woki Scroll Clock: scrollclock Amazing what folks do with div overflows :) All in a few lines of MooTools-used-JS: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var h1, h2, m1, m2, s1, s2; window. addEvent ( 'domready' , function ( ) {       ...

It’s another Javascript conference! Full Frontal has kicked off in Brighton this morning (fullfrontal09 on twitter). First up is Ajaxian and Yahoo Chris Heilmann on Javascript security. The main theme is let’s use Javascript sensibly and don’t just blame the language when other things are creating the ...

Even PHP developers can write web applications that use all sorts of fancy long-polling. That is what Leo said about his NGiNX HTTP push module: This module turns Nginx into an adept HTTP Push and Comet server. It takes care of all the connection juggling, and exposes a simple interface to broadcast ...

Whether you love JavaScript or not, folks are diverse and want to use a range of languages to code the client. I have played with ruby in the browser via JRuby back in the day, and there have been lots of experiments much beyond that. Adam Beynon just released Vienna and we were very excited to hear ...

With PDC going on, we get a glimpse at the early stage of IE 9. There is some promise, albeit with omissions! Dean Hachamovitch, IE general manager, gives us an early look whirlwind that discusses: Performance Progress The JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and Shanku Niyogi ...

Kevin Miller has updated his simply buttons library to use the button element. This library offers better looking and behaving buttons across all browsers. It does not need a javascript framework and is very easy to install and use. simplybuttons It is all the rage to build a perfect button and you ...