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Offline: What does it mean and why should I care?

09.09.10

[CC-A by Anomalous4] Michael Mahemoff has posted an extremely in-depth tutorial on HTML5Rocks on the subject of offline web apps: Introduction: The Meaning of “Offline Application Cache and Offline Storage Older Offline Storage Techniques Cookies Plugin Based Storage Browser-specific features Offline Storage in the Era of HTML5 Web Storage Web SQL Database IndexedDB File API How to Use the Offline Technologies Storing miscellaneous data Storing binary data Ensuring the Application Runs [...]

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TinySrc: Free Easy Way to Reformat Graphics for Mobile Devices

08.09.10

If you're working with mobile browsers tinySrc will dynamically scale your images down to the right size on the server side: PLAIN TEXT HTML: http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png To use, you simply prefix the URL to your image with a pointer to tinysrc: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <img src='http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png'  alt='My image' />   tinySrc will then do the magic for you: Unless you tell it otherwise, tinySrc will resize the image [...]

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WebPagetest and PageSpeed join up via PageSpeed SDK

08.09.10

Steve Souders just pointed me to the great news that two great open source performance projects are working well together: Pat Meenan just blogged about Page Speed results now available in Webpagetest. This is a great step toward greater consistency in the world of web performance, something that benefits developers and ultimately benefits web users. The Page [...]

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Searching for the HTML5 Search Input

07.09.10

I recently saw the new HTML5 Search input element and wondered what the heck it does: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <input name="s" type="search" />   Chris Coyier has posted an in-depth article going into this new HTML5 input type to appease your curiosity. The HTML5 spec actually says you don't have to do much with it, but Webkit actually has a [...]

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The Official jQuery Podcast has a New Home

05.09.10

Today, we’d like to announce that we’ve moved the Official jQuery Podcast off the jQuery blog and onto it’s own site at http://podcast.jquery.com. We felt that with a weekly blog post for each episodes show notes the podcast was taking over the blog.  Some of the community members thought the same way.  We’ve been working on [...]

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