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Kyle (@getify)

Twitter Bio:: JavaScript, HTML5, Web Performance. Anything else bores me.
Location:: Austin, TX
Website:: http://getify.me

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Opera Developer News - 300 million users and move to WebKit

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On the same day as announcing that Opera has 300 million users, we're also announcing that for all new products Opera will use WebKit as its rendering engine and V8 as its JavaScript engine. It's built using the open-source Chromium browser as one of its components. Of course, a browser is much more than just a renderer and a JS engine, so this is primarily an "under the hood" change. Consumers will initially notice better site compatibilty, especially with mobile-facing sites - many of which have only been tested in WebKit browsers. The first product will be for Smartphones, which we'll demonstrate at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona at the

5 APIs that will transform the Web in 2013

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It’s incredibly exciting to see how the Web is evolving, and 2013 has a lot more in store. Over the next year, there are a number of technologies coming down the pipeline that have the potential to radically transform how we use and develop for the Web. CSS filters are already in Chrome and Safari, and allow advanced styling as as blurring, warping and modifying the color intensities of elements. However, that’s only the start of it. CSS Custom Filters let you write your own fragment and vertex shadows in GLSL, a language that has been integral to traditional 3D rendering over the past 10 years or so.What this means in practice, is that you can

Optimise your JavaScript

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JavaScript has become essential for all dotcoms wishing to deliver a rich user experience, especially in projects requiring you to avoid Flash. As the power of consumer hardware advances, limitations are vanishing, enabling your sites to perform tasks that only a few years ago would have ground any browser to a halt. Nevertheless, optimising code is still vital for a seamless user experience, so I would like to share some simple rules that can dramatically help you decrease the time it takes to execute your JavaScript.

Many of these optimisations may not be noticeable if you aren’t working with large sets of data requiring you to iterate

W3C announces plan to deliver HTML 5 by 2014, HTML 5.1 in 2016

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the group that manages development of the main specifications used by the Web, has proposed a new plan that would see the HTML 5 spec positioned as a Recommendation—which in W3C's lingo represents a complete, finished standard—by the end of 2014. The group plans a follow-up, HTML 5.1, for the end of 2016.Under the new plan, the HTML Working Group will produce an HTML 5.0 Candidate Recommendation by the end of 2012 that includes only those features that are specified, stable, and implemented in real browsers. Anything controversial or unstable will be excluded from this specification. The group will also remove