InfoQ Homepage HTML5 Content on InfoQ
-
Origami: Component-Based Web Applications
Andrew Betts, director at FT Labs, presented to Velocity Europe 2014 attendants a set of home-grown standards and tools for web development. They aim to cope with the development challenges of creating and maintaining more than eight hundred *.ft.com sites. FT Labs main strategy is to breakdown web pages into components built within a well-defined set of rules.
-
Android and iOS Go HTML5 Friendly With Their Latest Releases
The two popular mobile operating systems, Android and iOS, may be about to give a boost to the HTML5 development with their latest releases. While Google is removing WebView from Android's core, making it an updatable component, Apple replaced the traditional UIWebView with WKWebView, which has advantages in the performance, stability and functionality of hybrid applications.
-
WHATWG Is Standardizing Web Streams
After gestating for more than a year on GitHub, the project Streams has now been adopted by WHATWG in an effort to standardize a web streaming API. The project is led by Domenic Denicola, the man that started the work on Promises, currently part of the upcoming ECMAScript 6.
-
WebStorm 9 Supports Meteor, React and Polymer
WebStorm 9, JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA-based IDE, comes with a number of new features and enhancements, including support for Meteor, React, Polymer, PhoneGap, Ionic, and others.
-
W3C's Latest HTML5 Standard Ignores WHATWG
W3C published a new version of the HTML5 Differences from HTML4 working draft. The latest version describes the differences of W3C HTML5 and HTML4, and a comparison between WHATWG HTML and HTML4 is no longer covered.
-
Chrome 38 Supports Art Direction through the picture Element
Google has added support for the <picture> element in the recently released Chrome 38, enabling developers to specify multiple image sources based on various media queries.
-
SweetAlert Provides Alternate Way to Alert Users
SweetAlert is a new modal dialog box library for JavaScript with a focus on style but without any external dependencies. The developer behind it, Tristan Edwards, created it as a way to ease the pain web designers experience when dealing with error messages.
-
Microsoft WinJS 3.0 Now Supports Multiple Platforms
Microsoft has enhanced WinJS by adding support for multiple platforms and several major browsers, has modularized it and made it work with other JavaScript libraries.
-
Debugging Apps in Chrome and Safari with Firefox
Mozilla has implemented the protocol adapters that enable remote debugging in Chrome for desktop or Android and Safari/iOS. They are to be integrated into WebIDE.
-
Yahoo Drop the Axe on YUI
Yahoo has just announced they will immediately stop all new development on Yahoo User Interface (YUI).
-
P5.js Brings Creative Coding to the Masses
Lauren McCarthy has released the first public beta of p5.js, a JavaScript library that wants to make coding accessible for artists, designers, educators, and beginners. p5.js is an offshoot of the Processing visual programming language, and enables non-programmers to write JavaScript code and create visual projects.
-
JavaScript Error Recorder Lets Users Report Bugs in Browser
Bogomil Shopov and Robert Nyman have announced The Usersnap Console Recorder, a browsable JavaScript error- and XHR-logs recorder that is free to use for FOSS projects.
-
MontageJS: An Interview with Creator Benoit Marchant
Benoit Marchant is the creator of the open source MontageJS HTML5 Framework, and the Co-Founder & CEO at Montage Studio. MontageJS is designed to write single page, multi-screen web applications with a focus on high quality user experience, and to enable big projects with larger teams.
-
New in Motorola RhoMobile 5.0: Licensing Model, Cloud Services and KitKat Support
Motorola RhoMobile 5.0 comes with a new licensing model, support for the latest iOS and Android versions, a set of new or improved cloud services – Build, Synchronization, Push Notification –, Zebra Printing support, and others.
-
Cloud 9 IDE 3.0 Now Runs in Ubuntu Containers via Docker
Cloud 9 has recently launched a new version of their online IDE. Usually, online developer tools are simpler than their native counterparts, some even refusing to call them IDEs. But Cloud 9 does not want to be just a rich editor, incorporating more and more features of a traditional integrated development environment.