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SublimeVideo, a beautiful HTML5 video player from Jilion, now supports Gecko/Firefox. Note that the WebKit implementation is still a bit more functional, though the team expects the two to be identical when Firefox 3.7 is released.
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Web Development for the iPhone: HTML, CSS & JS Support:
A very comprehensive list of selectors, CSS3 features, and HTML5 elements featured on the iPhone.
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“Apparently, the touchstart event object persists in browser memory even when the event has long ended. More importantly, it continues to be updated with information about the current touch action.”
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““Good enough” is not good enough on the iPhone.”
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Showcase of Designs Optimized for iPhone: Smashing Magazine has a great roundup posts of iPhone-optimized websites. Includes some of my favorites, like Nike Lab and Volkswagen.
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The new beta of jQTouch is ready for download with a ton of enhancements and fixes. For those who don’t know, jQTouch is a jQuery plugin which helps create immersive experiences on the iPhone and iPod Touch. New in beta 2:
- 8 core page animations (including several 3d options) and the ability to easily add your own. See the animations running like butter in a demo video.
- Support for custom extensions, including 4 built-in sample extensions for geo location, offline support, a “floaty” menu, and automatic title creation.
- A public object now allows you to manipulate jQTouch dynamically with functions like
goTo(),goBack(), andsubmitForm(). - A “fast touch” feature is enabled by default, improving responsiveness up to 500% in some cases.
Check out the new preview on your iPhone and download a copy to play with today!
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Thin Text in Safari with Snow Leopard: Steve Smith shows how to fix the bulky sub-pixel text rendering in Snow Leopard’s Safari, now that the
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Apple WebKit engineer named co-chair of HTML Working Group: Maciej Stachowiak, from Apple, will now be helping steer HTML5 as part of the W3C’s HTML Working Group. We can hope this means a focus on WebKit’s priorities for HTML5 like improved offline storage, background workers, and geo location.
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3d Safari Sites: The recently released Snow Leopard finally brings 3d transitions to Safari (also available in WebKit on Leopard). This site provides a list of sites which demonstrate this impressive new feature.
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“They made a mobile browser light years better than any previous browser & you promptly took it for granted & bitched about it lacking Flash.”
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Nice Web Type describes how they created a pure css gradient (without PNGs) in their recent TypeKit demo. The general approach uses -webkit-mask-image and -webkit-gradient, with a text-shadow behind.
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jQuery Swipe is a simple plugin by Ryan Scherf which adds swipe detection to elements in Mobile Safari. -
WebKit 3D CSS transforms coming to Snow Leopard, not Leopard: I’ve experimented with this a bit — it appears that desktop Safari is supporting some rudimentary transforms on objects (doesn’t fully “break” the page), but anything with 3D is just presented without dimension.
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CSS3 properties tests for webkit based browsers, including the iPhone: John Allsop goes in-depth with the CSS3 capabilities of the iPhone, compared to various other modern browsers. Includes compatibility chart and test samples.
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“Palm designed, built, and released the Pre, WebOS, and an app store, all in about two years. I’ve not yet seen or used an actual Pre, but I have been using the WebOS, emulated on my Mac, as a member of Palm’s beta SDK program, and it is excellent. It is hard to imagine how Palm could have produced anything better in the same amount of time. The question is whether even the best they could do is still too little, too late.”
- Daring Fireball: Palm Saturday
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