This post announces an update to Graded Browser Support. The GBS page on the YUI site always has the most current information. This post includes a list of changes, the updated chart of browsers that receive A-grade support, and our GBS forecast. The discussion section breaks out some of the strategy behind the current [...]
Good news everybody! The dates and venue for this year’s jQuery Conference have been determined. The conference will be held September 12th and 13th at Microsoft Cambridge in Boston, MA. This will be a 2 day conference with multiple tracks on each day. We’re in the process of planning out the schedule, talking with speakers, and setting [...]
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.
John told us:
Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice). Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]
Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings.
Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way…. as he talked about en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day. First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests…. 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5. All of the tests are released under New BSD. Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]