Apple changes the iPhone SDK TOS, creates a tsunami in the web community

Jobs certainly knows what he is doing, I was listening at the 4.0 OS presentation and boy, was it everything you wanted it to be… With every new iPhone OS Apple has brought excellent features. Then again, you also have the other Apple side that want to control everything.

Apple changes the TOS and chooses a wording that basically says that you can’t use an API not written in OBJECTIVE-C for creating Apple apps.

“3.3.1 Applications may only use Documented APIs in the manner prescribed by Apple and must not use or call any private APIs. Applications must be originally written in Objective-C, C, C++, or JavaScript as executed by the iPhone OS WebKit engine, and only code written in C, C++, and Objective-C may compile…

In video: John Resig on Advanced Javascript to Improve your Web App

In February 2010 John Resig, the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. During this 25 minute talk John outlines many of the new features and ideas behind jQuery 1.4.

Source from ThinkVitamin.

CSS3 transform is coming in a browser near you (even in IE)

There has been some cool developments lately on the use of CSS3 transform properties. First we have Dojo has announced that the next version of dojo.fx will support CSS3 transform. You can see the demo here.

Another nice project, cssSandpaper is a js animation framework making the use of CSS3 transform easy.

Check it out, those two are well worth the read.