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Ambient Light Web API

Posted on September 24, 2012 by tvalletta

I was able to access the ambient light sensor on a couple of my android devices from a web page through the new “devicelight” event listener. At the time of this post, only FireFox Mobile 15.0.1 supports this API.  I … Continue reading →

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JavaScript’s “this” Keyword

Posted on June 18, 2012 by tvalletta

Angus Croll published a classic article on JavaScript’s this Keyword. I created a quick impress.js presentation to help communicate this to engineers. Check out the presentation or the code on github.

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Why use Cookieless Domain?

Posted on March 6, 2012 by tvalletta

What is a cookieless domain? A cookieless domain is a domain like any other. It is used to serve assets that will not use cookies. It is common to serve images, styles, and scripts from a cookieless domain. Setting up … Continue reading →

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Using Your Phone as a Game Controller

Posted on November 21, 2011 by tvalletta

I was trying to come up with a presentation demo that would show off the iOS gyroscope api.  At first the best that I could come up with was a scrolling marquee.  I thought that it would be cooler than … Continue reading →

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Studies On Site Performance

Posted on June 3, 2011 by tvalletta

A couple of recent blog articles on different ways to improve site performance led me to go dig up some less recent studies on the impacts of performance (or the lack thereof).  I threw some of the data into some … Continue reading →

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The Open Web Platform

Posted on May 24, 2011 by tvalletta

The Open Web Platform. That is what you call it now. You may have called it something different before. Most people did. Here are some of the common (and not so common) labels: HTML5 Ajax Rich Internet Applications Single Page … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome Decides to Lead

Posted on May 17, 2011 by tvalletta

  Ian Fette, Alex Komoroske, and Alex Russell presented at Google I/O on “HTML5 and What’s Next”.  The presentation was an insightful step-by-step tour of the future of Chrome and likely the web.  Google has obviously decided that waiting for standards bodies or … Continue reading →

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