Badass JavaScript@badass_js

A showcase of awesome JavaScript that pushes the boundaries of what's possible on the web, by @devongovett.

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Joined June 2010
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PDFKit, a powerful PDF generation library for Node by yours truly: devongovett.github.com/pdfki… Code: github.com/devongovett/pdfki… Check it out!
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Just to clarify, conditional comments will continue to work in older versions of IE. IE10 will ignore them like other browsers do /cc. @xkit
RT @jashkenas: Draft of source-to-JavaScript mappings lands in Webkit: bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi… Design Document: docs.google.com/document/d/1… Exciting!
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IE10 will drop support for conditional comments in favor of feature testing: blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/…
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RT @andreasgal: pdf.js has reached its first milestone (the paper renders pixel perfect): tinyurl.com/3g5drsl
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RT @sgalineau: #IE10 Platform Preview 2 bit.ly/mkjHMD. HTML5 drag and drop, FileReader, HTML5 Forms, Web Workers, HTML5 sandbox...
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FunctionSource@functionsource
25 Jun 2011
Scrollability can hopefully become a shim thanks to overflow-scrolling: touch: There is allegedly some huge news... http://bit.ly/li5Zgx
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WebKit changelog for iOS 5: cl.ly/1D1d413G0A0q1t0e3l3X
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Now in CSS on iOS 5, combine overflow:scroll and -webkit-overflow-scrolling:touch for native style momentum scrolling without JS. FINALLY!
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Safari on iOS 5 has Webkit2 now, and includes the HTML5 parser, improved number fields, touch events on input elements, and window.onerror.
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Safari on iOS 5 now has rich text editing via the contenteditable attribute. Also allows for on screen keyboard customization. So awesome!
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Mathias Bynens@mathias
21 Jun 2011
What’s new in Firefox 5 for web developers: http://mths.be/baq
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JS Challange: Build an H.264 decoder in JavaScript for Firefox and Chrome. If we can do PDFs and MP3s, we can do H.264!
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Devon Govett
@devongovett
19 Jun 2011
pdf.js now has a multi page viewer that lazy loads/renders pages as you scroll. You can also control the zoom level. devongovett.github.com/pdf.j…
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jsmad demo, try this in Firefox: jsmad.org/
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Another amazing JS project, jsmad is a pure JavaScript MP3 decoder. Allows Firefox 4.0+ to play MP3s without any Flash: github.com/nddrylliog/jsmad
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A new episode of A Minute With Brendan in which @brendaneich takes us through the awesome pdf.js code base: aminutewithbrendan.com/pages…
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Additionally, an overview of the pdf.js guts: blog.mozilla.com/cjones/2011… and more other technical details: sbarman.wordpress.com/2011/0… if you're interested
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Blog post from the creator of PDF.js @andreasgal about the project: andreasgal.com/2011/06/15/pd…
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