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This could grow into a useful tool – a system for mapping between compiled javascript (e.g. something thats been minified) and it’s original source form. Would make browser debugging much easier.
Several implementation s of Box2D are compared, showing that for common tasks JavaScript is still* orders of magnitude slower that native compiled code. (*and probably always will be for many types of problem)
A date and time library for JavaScript, available via node package manager.
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.
A new set of data visualisation norms is beginning to emerge on the web. For that to happen, there need to be simple tools, that enable larger numbers of people to want to publishing their data in forms that can be made beautiful. These are some very useful tools.
Neat example of how an old school platform puzzle can easily make the jump to the web using HTML5′s canvas element and JavaScript.
Using JS to asynchronously load CSS can improve load times. This is interesting, but for me falls into the category of rarely useful. There will be cases where this is needed, but the maintenance then moves to a specialism that is costly.
A collection of the slides from JSConf.eu 2011
An extensive summary of the web technology stack.
In-page RDFa editing…
A realtime heatmap / codecoverage tool for JS.
Note JS screencast tutorials.
A cute CSS+JS library for creating AJAX spinners without the use of an animated GIF. Opens up some nice colur opportunities.
Microsoft analyse JS benchmarks and find they have no relevance to common JS-based web apps.
Very cute indeed. An autosuggest client & service for jQuery that provides renderable objects with detailed info.
Uglify contains an Abstract Syntax Tree, so anyone interested in doing any language parsing JS tools or projects might like to give it a look.
Dictation in the browser is still a way off, but it’s promising.
nother great video in the YUI Theatre series, this time on HTML5 Audio.