Microsoft backs ECMAScript, dismisses Google Dart

By tim, on November 22nd, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft has posted an article on Evolving ECMAScript on its IE Blog. ECMAScript is the official standard for what we call JavaScript. The company is proposing some minor additions “to address gaps in Math, String and Number functionality as well as Globalization.” It has also taken the opportunity to take a shot at Google,

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Google offers the web a new language called Dart – but why?

By tim, on October 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Google has announced an early preview of Dart, a new language for web applications. The news is not a surprise, especially if you have been keeping track of the developer conference GOTO Aarhus, whose organisers had pre-announced that Google would be announcing its new language there, as indeed it did.

Dart is a

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Adobe Flash Professional to get HTML authoring features

By tim, on October 5th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I have just attended a session on the future of Flash Professional, the designer-oriented authoring tool for Flash, here at Adobe MAX in Los Angeles.

One feature that caught my attention is that export to HTML is coming to Flash Professional. Adobe already has a research project called Project Wallaby which converts .fla files

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jQuery usage soars as Adobe Flash shows slight decline

By tim, on August 25th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

A press release from .appendTo, a company which offers jQuery-based services and training, states that “jQuery Overtakes Flash on World’s Top Websites”. I found it a curious claim insofar as jQuery is not really an alternative to Flash, though there is some limited set of graphical effects for which I guess you could use

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Microsoft partners with Joyent to bring node.js server-side JavaScript to Windows

By tim, on June 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Microsoft will port node.js to Windows in partnership with Joyent. This will work on Windows Azure as well as other versions of Windows back to Server 2003.

But can you not already run node.js on Windows? This is possible using Cygwin and instructions are here. Cygwin makes Windows more like Linux by providing familiar

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Considering Windows 8 as an HTML platform

By tim, on June 6th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Amongst all the fuss about whether Microsoft is deprecating Silverlight or even client-side .NET, it is easy to lose sight of the other angle on this. What are the implications of Microsoft embracing HTML and JavaScript as a new first-class Windows development platform? Here’s the quote again:

Today, we also talked a bit about

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Infragistics: upbeat on Windows Phone but also building for Apple iOS, Google Android

By tim, on May 20th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

I spoke to Dean Guida, CEO and co-founder of Infragistics, at TechEd in Atlanta earlier this week. Infragistics makes components, mainly for Windows but now beginning to support non-Windows clients. There is a set of jQuery controls in preparation, and “Our roadmaps are also going to deliver native on Android and iPhone,” Guida told

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Dreamweaver CS5.5 PhoneGap apps: performance issues on Android

By tim, on April 30th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

This is a follow-on from my earlier post about building a simple PhoneGap app using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5.5. I built it on Windows targeting Android. I liked the development experience up to the point of trying the app: it looks great, but performance is terrible. That is, you tap a button and there is

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Google on innovation – or should that be copying?

By tim, on March 10th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Patrick Copeland, Google Director of Engineering, gave the keynote at QCon London this morning. His theme was innovation: how it works at Google and elsewhere.

I was expecting some background on Google’s famous 20% time, where employees spent up to one day a week on something not in their job description, but I

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Appcelerator releases Titanium Mobile 1.6

By tim, on February 24th, 2011 Follow tim on Twitter

Appcelerator has released Titanium Mobile 1.6, an update to its cross-platform app framework for Apple iOS and Google Android.

The update adds 26 features for Android and 9 features for iOS. The Facebook API has been completely redone, keeping up-to-date with the latest Facebook API. There is beta support for the Android NDK –

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