CreateInTO
Front-End Dev News
June 2013
Matthew Fabb
WebGL
- Microsoft
- IE support hinted in a Vine video a month ago
- Windows Server released to subscribers with IE11
- IE11 confirmed to support WebGL
- Passes 71.9% of WebGL Conformance tests
- Windows 8 native apps using HTML will
support WebGL
WebGL
- Apple
- Released betas of iOS 7 and OSX 10.9
- Safari 7
- WebGL is not enabled
- WebGL used for iAds on iOS
- Could change before release
WebGL
- Chrome mobile
- Now in Chrome mobile but needs to
be enabled in flags -
Demoed WebGL on Chrome Mobile at
Google I/0 2013
IE11
- Video
- No WebRTC support
- MPEG Dash support
- A streaming video standard
- Support for Encrypted Media Extensions (EME)
- Aka DRM for HTML5 video
- Netflix supports HTML5 video in IE11
without Silverlight installed
IE11
IE11
Chrome DevTools
- GPU debugging
- Still in beta on Canary
- Trace paint operations including
elements rendered off screen. - 3D view
- Video link
Chrome DevTools
Workspaces
CHROME DEVTOOLS
Workspaces
- Have revision history built in
Chrome DevTools
CSS warnings & errors in the console
Chrome DevTools
Emulate Touch Events
Chrome DevTools
- Touch emulation demo
- More mobile debugging:
- Emulating Device Viewports
- Device Geolocation Overrides
- Device Orientation Overrides
- CSS Media Type Emulation
JavaScript in OSX & iOS
- Apple has created a new Objective-C
to JavaScript Bridge - JavaScriptCore framework
- For native apps on both OSX & iOS
- You can use JavaScript in apps without WebView
- What does this mean for projects like PhoneGap?
Responsive Design plugin
- Responsive Inspector
- Chrome plugin
- By Adobe employees
Adobe
- Adobe introduces Starling.JS
- Targeting Canvas short term, WebGL long term
-
Adobe killed Fireworks
- Fireworks CS6 is still on sale but there
will be no CC (Creative Cloud) version
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By Matthew Fabb
