Category Archives: Open Source

Ubuntus Quixotic Mobile War: HTML5 – Not Linux – Is The Key

Ubuntus Quixotic Mobile War: HTML5 – Not Linux – Is The Key “Making the Web a first-class citizen on mobile devices? That would be a Very Big Deal, and it’s one that Canonical has already started to deliver on, as Shuttleworth…
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A Backbone Skeleton App

A Backbone Skeleton App “It took me some time to get an optimal code/directory layout for Backbone.js apps. Because I think this is a major pain for beginners, I prepared a well commented sample skeleton app. Get it from Github while…
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VP9 and Opus, Background Position Offset and Ruby Positioning

VP9 and Opus land in Chrome “Chromium updated the libvpx library to include support for an early version of the VP9 decoder, the successor of the VP8 codec that’s currently used by WebM. Furthermore, though still behind a flag (also…
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Linklib – lets film lovers and filmmakers send time synced links from videos to phones – a WebFWD project

Linklib – lets film lovers and filmmakers send time synced links from videos to phones – a WebFWD project “Linklib lets filmmakers, film fans, journalists and bloggers send time synched links from a full screen video directly to their audiences’ phones….
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Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here!

Firefox OS Simulator 1.0 is here! “Three weeks back, we introduced the Firefox OS Simulator, a tool that allows web developers to try out their apps in Firefox OS from the comfort of their current Windows/Mac/Linux computers. We’ve seen a number…
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Brett Gaylor – Three Content Types for Webmaker

Brett Gaylor – Three Content Types for Webmaker “Following on some great posts by David Humphrey, I’ve used Popcorn Maker to post some thoughts around the direction we’re headed with Webmaker content.” “This type of content exists in the wild,…
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jQuery.Deferred is the most important client-side tool you have

‘The “Deferred” pattern describes an object which acts as a proxy for some unit of computation that may or may not have completed. The pattern can apply to any asynchronous process: AJAX requests, animations, or web workers to name a…
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Kaltura HTML5 Update, brings New Features and Best In Class Performance – Kaltura Community Blog

The Kaltura HTML5 team has been hard at work on a major update to Kaltura’s HTML5. The HTML5 1.7 release brings many new features, enhancements, bug fixes, more robust device support and massive performance  enhancements. Built with laser focus on the…
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HTML5 Does Have A Mobile Future: Mozillas Chris Heilmann Goes Mythbusting

HTML5 Does Have A Mobile Future: Mozillas Chris Heilmann Goes Mythbusting “The onus for HTML5 performance and capabilities really has little to do with the HTML5 development community (presuming a developer’s code is well done, of course) but rather the individual…
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Make JavaScript Testing Fun With Testem

Make JavaScript Testing Fun With Testem Testem is a NCurses and WebApp test driven development (TDD) test runner and scoreboard for continuous testing (whenever you save a file) for Jasmine, QUnit, Mocha, and Any Other In Browser testing frameworks. And yes,…
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