Category Archives: webdev

Vendor Prefixes Are A Rousing Success

November 18, 2011 – 7:36 am

tl;dr version: Henri Sivonen’s arguments against vendor prefixing for CSS properties focus on harm without considering value, which in turn has caused him to come to a non-sensical set of conclusions and recommendations. Progress is a process, and vendor prefixes have been critical in accelerating that process for CSS. For a while now I’ve been [...]

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Real Constructors & WebIDL Last Call

October 3, 2011 – 7:10 am

For those who haven’t been following the progress of WebIDL — and really, how could you not? An IDL? For the web? I’d like to subscribe to your newsletter… — the standard is now in last call, which is W3C for “alllllllllllmost done”. Which it is not. Before I get to why, let me first [...]

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Google & the Future of JavaScript

September 12, 2011 – 5:36 pm

Simply stated, Google is absolutely committed to making JavaScript better, and we’re pushing hard to make it happen.

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Half Lives

March 9, 2011 – 9:04 am

I’m headed to Austin soon for spring break SxSWi, and this year I’m lucky and grateful to be representing Chrome on the always-packed browser panel (more usable Lanyrd talk page here). The context for this year’s panel is interesting to me — a couple of years into a renewed era of browser competition, users have [...]

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Cutting The Interrogation Short

January 30, 2011 – 3:21 pm

I’ve been having a several-day mail, IRC, and twitter discussion with various folks about performance and the feature detection religion technique, particularly on mobile where CPU ain’t free. So what’s the debate? I say you shouldn’t be running tests in UA’s where you can dependably know the answer a-priori. Wait, what? Why does Alex Russell [...]

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