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Page Visibility API

Aurora 10′s just landed and it includes the Page Visibility API – enabling JS apps to know when they’re in the background, and thus throttle down, or perhaps get on with some housekeeping that woudl otherwise interrupt the user.

Google Prediction API – Google Code

The sentiment analysis part of this API might be useful for several project students who want to look into the statistics of public opinion without spending a lifetime writing the core software.

OpenPhoto

This looks useful – open source photo management.

The Open Web Stack

An extensive summary of the web technology stack.

Scott Schiller on HTML5 Audio

nother great video in the YUI Theatre series, this time on HTML5 Audio.

Scott Schiller on HTML5 Audio

nother great video in the YUI Theatre series, this time on HTML5 Audio.

WebRTC

An interesting API for real-time peer to peer communication between javascript client.

HTML5 Cross Browser Polyfills

List of shims, plugs and ladders for spanning the crevices of non-implementation in various browsers as we slowly concertina to and from a sedimentary layer of common functionality whilst concurrently leaping forward with standards and capabilities.

Authentication and The Google APIs

Introduction to Google’s three main authentication systems: AuthSub, Oauth and ClientLogin.

Wolfram Alpha API

A REST API for Wolfram Alpha. Could be interesting and very useful.

Google APIs

APIs, thousands of ‘em. Don’t code ’till you see the #FFFs of their eyes lads.

Google Spreadsheets PHP API

Potentially very useful!

SimpleGeo

Geo service providing contextual information about locations in a handy RESTful API.

mca blog [API for RDF? don't do it!]

Mike Amundsen argues that an RDF API would hurt. Suggests MIME Types.

Node.js and WebSockets Demo

Anders Norås writes a server using Node.js and a HTML client using WebSockets to push input from the server terminal to the browser.

W3C Audio Incubator Group

I’m pleased to see the creation of the Audio Incubator Group, to explore the possibility of open audio standards for web browsers. The ability to reading and write raw audio data in a standard way open up all kinds of potential for richer and more intuitive application feedback, as well as the potentially very enjoyable …

Firefox Audio: Building a Square Wave

Example of building a Square Wave using sine wave addition using JavaScript, canvas and the Firefox Audio Data API

Audio Data API – MozillaWiki

An Audio Data API for Firefox perhaps one day for all browsers.

Compromising Twitter’s OAuth security system

An interesting look at Twitter’s OAuth implementation, and an attack vector based on compromising the key of an application that can be down loaded and analysed at leisure.