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Front End
Web Dev News
March 2013
Matthew Fabb
Adobe Shake-up
Kevin Lynch leaves Adobe for Apple
Adobe Shake Up
Adobe isn't hiring a new CTO
Adobe business unit heads will runtechnology development
Adobe Shake Up
Thibault Imbert leaves the Flash Runtimes team
Adobe Shake Up
Thibault Imbert is now
"Group Product Manager Web Platform"
He is writing a JavaScript book for ActionScript developers
typedarray.org
Adobe Shake Up
Bill Howard is the new
Group Product Manager of Flash Runtimes
@BillAtAdobe
Flash & AIR
Flash & AIR roadmap updated!!
Flash & AIR
- GamePad support for desktop browsers & Android
- OUYA Controller support
- Increasing the max texture size to 4096x4096
- 16-bit texture support
- Better iCloud Support
- Android Captive Runtime Debugging
- And more...
IE10 & Flash
Microsoft switches from a white list to black list
for Flash content for IE10 on Windows 8
IE11
Windows Blue as leaked / announced
Rumored to be released August 2013
Includes IE11
IE11
Leaked build shows that Microsoft is changing
IE11 user string
IE10
Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; Trident/6.0)IE11
Mozilla/5.0 (IE 11.0; Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; .NET4.0E; .NET4.0C;
rv:11.0) like GeckoChrome Mobile
Data Compression Proxy
JPEGs & PNGs get converted to WebP
Reduce data usage up to 50%
Currently just on Chrome Mobile Beta
JS Frameworks
jQuery 2.0 Beta 2 is out
Android 2.3 kills some optimizations. :-(
Final version jQuery 2.0 possibly shipping for
jQuery UK on April 19
JS Frameworks
Google & MPEG LA
Google & MPEG LA agree to royalty-free terms
for VP8 / WebM video codec
Google & MPEG LA
Google is NOT admitting that VP8 violates
any patents on H-264
Google's license includes any 3rd party sub-licensor
Covers the next gen video codec VP9 & H-265
Google & Nokia
Nokia has asserted a patent claim against HTC & Google
for the use of VP8 in Android in a German court
Mozilla & Unreal 3
Mozilla & Epic Games have ported
the Unreal Engine 3
Mozilla & Unreal 3
The Citadel demo is the same demo from 2011
of Flash Player 11
Emscripten compiler to port C and C++ code to asm.js
Mozilla & Unreal 3
Uses OdinMonkey
An asm.js optimization module for
Firefox’s JavaScript engine
OdinMonkey will ship with Firefox 22 in June
Mozilla & Unreal 3
Just JavaScript so it should still work on other browsers
Just very slowly
Which is why Mozilla thinks other browsers will follow
createinto front end web dev news march 2013
By Matthew Fabb
