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Give Internet Explorer 9 a test drive

March 16th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

Want to look at what is under the wheel for internet explorer 9? You can download a test drive at this address http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/.

For now it is confirmed that IE9 will support addEventListener (lol) and border-radius, it score 55 on the…

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A call to all web developers, launching a twitter campaign to force webkit to implement a position fixed in mobile webkit

March 15th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

Hey guys,

I need YOU for 2 minutes,

Some of you guys might not know that it is impossible to have a fixed toolbar in mobile webkit, this is because we can’t fix anything to the gridview webkit produce.

This is something…

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Rework, think you know how business work? Think again.

March 13th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

When I heard that Signals37 was launching another book, the first thing I did is run to the local Chapster to get it.

If you do not know Signals37, you probably know one of their online product, like Basecamp (psssstt…

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In video: The Future of Web Apps

March 9th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer – The Future of Web Applications from Øredev on Vimeo.

“The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels–reinventing…

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State of Internet Explorer 9 progress

March 8th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

I recently found an old article (3 months old) I did not read about IE9 progress.

There are some good news in it, first the javascript engine has been improved a lot. It is now comparable to others modern browsers (just a…

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Microsoft to Double Down on HTML5 With Internet Explorer 9? Really?

March 4th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

I was pretty surprised to read this week an article on Webmonkey that was saying that Microsoft would certainly double down in IE9 on HTML5 and CSS3. I suggest you read it yourself, but basically it was saying that Microsoft would…

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The mobile webkit fixed position problem

February 22nd, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile device are no powerhouse to emulate…

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In video: Mozilla show the future of web file uploading

February 21st, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

“Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it.…

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Plupload, upload files using HTML5 with fallback for older browsers

February 17th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

Looking for a file upload script lately?

You can use it to upload files with HTML5 now, you can even drag and drop from your desktop, and just update it later to get all the browsers to get along when it…

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Can you tell this video player is not in flash?

February 15th, 2010 by Cedric Dugas

A nice HTML5 video player has popped up recently. The Sublime video player is an experimentation from Jillion and what can I say, I tried it on Chrome and it look pretty slick and powerful. It currently support the latest version of…

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