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Wooga published new game Pocket Island on Github:  https://github.com/wooga/Pocket-Island  play it at:  http://wooga.github.com/Pocket-Island/ipad.html Blog post about it:  http://www.wooga.com/2012/06/woogas-html5-adventure/ Another news is about Gladius, game engine from Mozilla. Engine is now in version 0.2. New version is mostly about improved API  and better modularity. Read more about at:  http://blog.mozilla.org/labs/2012/06/introducing-gladius-0-2/ Visit Gladius page:  https://mozillalabs.com/en-US/gladius/

Interested in writing Low-level JavaScript with malloc, pointeres and all C-like features? Look at:  http://mbebenita.github.com/Mvm/  - Page is an experiment and living example of how it could look like. Mentioned on *JS page Heap.coffe with similar approach:   http://syg.github.com/heap.coffee/

Pageflip experiment with site that works like book. Best thing is that flips are fast :) http://tympanus.net/Development/FlipboardPageLayout/?page=0

http://cssarrowplease.com/  is a simple, but useful tool for generating arrow in CSS. Easy to change properties of arrow and just copy generated CSS.

As in the blog post:  http://enja.org/2012/05/07/floating-down-a-tributary/ Tributary  is a web interface for live and responsive visual coding. It includes a code editor and provides some popular javascript libraries for visual programming. The core concept of tributary comes from the inspirational  Bret Victor video  and the implementation is derived from Gabriel Florit’s  water project . See video for yourself:   Project is new but worth a try :) http://enjalot.com/ To start playing with it just visit one of examples eg.  http://enjalot.com/tributary/2271952/squarecircle.js  click on value in source code and see how canvas is changing :) Github repo:  https://github.com/enjalot/tributary

There is new GIT homepage! Looks better and is much more useful, also for new users. For new users jest go to:  http://git-scm.com/ Look also at new GIT logo by Jason Long:  https://github.com/blackant Image from:  https://github.com/blog/1125-new-git-homepage

Kickstrap is a project that aim to be more powerful version of Twitter Bootsrap. Something like Bootstrap++ :) From start it has themes, many JS libraries, h5bp build script... http://ajkochanowicz.github.com/Kickstrap/index.html Kickstrap is not yet stable so beware until 1.0!

How to deal with getElementById Recently I found code: var d = document; function doSomething(name){ if( typeof document.getElementById(name) != 'undefined' ) document.getElementById('innerFrame_'+name).src=document.getElementById('innerFrame_'+name).src } For me there are problems in this code... getElementById can return only element itself or null.  http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-getElBId var d = document; function doSomething(name){ if( document.getElementById(name) ) document.getElementById('innerFrame_'+name).src=document.getElementById('innerFrame_'+name).src } Null is falsy, Element as Object is always truthy. Just use it as if condition. Logical problem in if condition and it's contents. I realized that function changes different element that it is testing for existence. The best option is to stop testing for existence of element by id of name, and check only for ...

Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle from CUSEC on Vimeo . This Talk will change You. It is really inspiring and makes you think about your life. I'm really speechless.  Just watch it.

This project gained big attention and in my opinion is really interesting, both technically and commercially. Thin client was always dream of the future, recently Google tried it with ChromeOS but it wan't successfull. In my opinion this was because of price, and Desktop look&feel. Maybe with tablet with ChromeOS it would be more popular. Mozilla with new project wants to create cheap and application friendly OS for mobile phones. Core applications like support for SMS, or talks would be cached for offline use. I menioned offline because most of applications will work just as HMTL5 Web Applications! This rally can be first operating system that will be like mobile browser in the pocket ;) I really think recently about new phone: Windows Phone - interesting, but I need desktop Windows to write applications :( iPhone - Mac OS :( Android - whatever OS I want The only thing that stops me was price... There are of course cheap phones, but they are for me too slow....

There is new html5rocks site I encourage my readers to see it:  http://www.html5rocks.com/en/ On twitter (@tglazar) I found also  Web App Field Guide which is awesome!  http://www.html5rocks.com/webappfieldguide/toc/index/

Part 1 of creating game in GLGE:  http://statico.github.com/webgl-glge-game-part-1.html GLGE is JavaScript library for the lazy WebGL programmers:  http://www.glge.org/ There is already part 2 of this tutorial:  http://statico.github.com/webgl-glge-game-part-2.html

http://www.glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?post/2012/02/09/CALL-FOR-ACTION:-THE-OPEN-WEB-NEEDS-YOU-NOW Call for an ACTION to stop implementation of -webkit- vendor prefix in other browsers! This should not happen and I think that all -webkit- only sites should stop sniffing for Webkit and just use a tool like  http://leaverou.github.com/prefixfree/  to easily add other browsers support. In my humble opinion vendor prefixes was bad idea from the start, but worst idea was to let browsers put them in *stable* versions of browsers. This is good for innovation, I can agree but this is bad for standarization, and now we see how.

Most awesome websites on the world, must see! :) http://websitesfromhell.net/ PL into at:  http://antyweb.pl/dzieki-websites-from-hell-poznasz-najbrzydsze-zakatki-globalnej-sieci/

JSDev is shiny new project from Douglas Crockford. With JSDev it is easy to write UnitTest within file that will be tested. JSDev uses comments and command line scripts to uncomment your test code and run tests. This is in my opinion interesting and easy. Only disadvantage is coding within comments (or comment test code when it's ready). But if editors will understand this comment it would be really powerful. With Node.js it will be easy to execute JS without browser. Watch screencast at NetTuts+ to see it in action: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/meet-crockfords-jsdev/ Description:  https://plus.google.com/118095276221607585885/posts/CTZ7BNx7a8z Repository:  https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSDev

MP3 is a format with fee if game is above 5000 copies. So if game has 5000 views layers can interpret that as 5000 copies... It can be tricky so better use MP4. More at Scirca blog:  http://www.scirra.com/blog/64/why-you-shouldnt-use-mp3-in-your-html5-games

There is new awesome blog about HTML5 Games Development:  http://www.html5gamedevs.com/ I'm really impressed with amount of great posts that are published.

Nice list of CSS selectors and properties that can be used after dropping IE6 support. http://www.bennadel.com/blog/2306-What-CSS-Properties-Are-Supported-When-You-Drop-IE6-Support.htm

http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/46716/what-should-every-programmer-know-about-web-development There is everything, from design to security and advise to use MVC.

MDN Holiday Calendar:  http://thewebrocks.com/calendar/ Read every of 24 articles before Holidays! Very nice idea to get used to read something new every day! Edit: I realized that last post was from another calendar! Performance Calendar:  http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2011/ Efficient JavaScript:  http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/efficient-javascript/ Just like in title, big bunch of good practices and advises how to make JavaScript fast. Idiomatic JavaScript:  https://github.com/rwldrn/idiomatic.js How to write beautiful JavaScript with suggestion about writing with others. Really recommended reading. Annotated ECMAScript 5.1:  http://es5.github.com/ Based on ECMAScript Language specification but with hyperlinks and annotations. This should be more friendly than original PDF. Local Storage read performance:  http://calendar.perfplanet.com/2011/localstorage-read-performance/ Local storage is much slower than what I would e...