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PhoneGap is a development tool that allows web developers to take advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, and Blackberry SDK using JavaScript.

abstraction layer to the many phone APIs around there.

The Burst Engine is an OpenSource vector animation engine for the HTML5 Canvas Element. Burst provides similar web functionality to Flash and contains a layer based animation system like After Effects. Burst uses a very light-weight JavaScript frame, meaning your animations will download unnoticably quick and can be controlled using very simple JavaScript methods. For example: the [-] logo above is a Burst animation attached to a mouseOver event using the following code...

canvas is the next Flash or not

This document describes an interface for an abstract File I/O interface where web applications can interact with a file system, without any prior knowledge about the underlying filesystem. This interface can be used for e.g. an image preview before submitting a form or for saving a drawing from a canvas painting web application locally.

open the web

Goes through all the HTML code in a web page, and outlines any HTML element with inline events with a red border.

nifty idea (via codepo8)

Speeqe is a web based, group chat client that works with the XMPP/MUC protocol.

and open source since a couple of days.

jARIA is a plugin for the jQuery javascript library that adds ARIA support to Web applications. It is based on a javascript library written for Mozilla by IBM.

it seems to be a good start

Firefox offers a strict JavaScript checking option. It can be enabled by either setting 'javascript.options.strict' to 'true' in about:config, or by enabling 'strict JavaScript warnings' in the Web developer extension.

After some recent optimizations, the Dojo Cometd implementation of the Bayeux protocol running on the Jetty web server can now handle up to 20,000 simultaneous users per server while maintaining sub-second latency.

impressive numbers. Does the Twisted one can beat that?

An increasing number of web applications are using JavaScript to mimic desktop widgets like menus, tree views, rich text fields, and tab panels. Web developers are constantly innovating, and future applications will contain complex, interactive elements such as spreadsheets, calendars, organizational charts, and beyond. Until now, web developers wanting to make their styled <div> and <span> based widgets keyboard accessible have lacked the proper techniques. However, keyboard accessibility is part of the minimum accessibility requirements that any web developer should be aware of.

the usage of tabindex and focus