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jQuery 2.0 will drop support for IE8

With both Google and Facebook already dropping support for IE8, this makes a lot of sense. It’s more leverage for developers to argue against IE8 support. I recently added a functionality to freshstep.com that makes IE7 users jump through a hoop to log in. It’s bad enough getting all the code to work on IE7, but pulling in Facebook’s SDK means that most users see the little yellow triangle warning about javascript errors.

How correlated?: jQuery conference 2013 Europe Vienna review (part 1)

Some breaking news that popped out: jQuery is going to DROP SUPPORT FOR OLDS INTERNET EXPLORER (6,7 and 8) !!! in it’s 2.0 (big applause from the audience).  It should be noted however that IE9 and IE10 are much more standards compliant so they will be automatically supported.

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Firefox 22 may reject 3rd party cookies by default

If you click through to the bugzilla item Block cookies from sites I haven’t visited, there’s a debate going on about it. The change essentially makes FF behave like Safari. There is some worry that FF, representing roughly 10x the traffic compared to Safari, could upset many people with this change. Would that result in a drop in Firefox usage? Maybe there non-advertising usages for 3rd party cookies, but it seems unlikely that the would be to domains you’ve never visited. Chrome, naturally, will remain uber-friendly to anything advertising related, so this might be a differentiator for Firefox.

On an unrelated note, Mozilla still uses Bugzilla and Mailman.

» The New Firefox Cookie Policy Web Policy

The default Firefox cookie policy will, beginning with release 22, more closely reflect user privacy preferences. This mini-FAQ addresses some of the questions that I’ve received from Mozillans, web developers, and users.

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The Link Conservatory

A long time ago, I made a Web app in PHP 3 and MySQL that was a mini Yahoo! hosted at the consultancy I worked for, Clear Ink. At some point, we released the source code on our Working Dogs site. This predated SourceForge, IIRC. Someone asked me for a copy, since Working Dogs is long gone. Here’s the link in case anyone else is interested.

Download The Link Conservatory source code

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Useful open source

Here are a few open source projects I stumbled on recently that I thought might be useful. I’ve been trying out ThinkUp because it might be useful to me in a way that was not intended by design. Rather than a reporting engine, it could be a stand-alone tool for pulling social data to be re-used on another Web site.

HybridAuth, Open Source Social Sign On PHP Library

HybridAuth enable developers to easily build social applications to engage websites vistors and customers on a social level by implementing social signin, social sharing, users profiles, friends list, activities stream, status updates and more.

ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform

With ThinkUp you’ll get the detailed insights you need to learn what’s working, and what you can do even better.

howler.js – Modern Web Audio Javascript Library – GoldFire Studios

Browsers have come a long way over the years, and we are now able to achieve amazing results using all of the great new technologies often referred to as HTML5. However, generally speaking, audio still sucks.  So, we decided to create our own library and open source it. This library works great for games, but it can work just as well for any other audio-related web app.

PieCrust — A static website generator and lightweight CMS.

PieCrust is a static website generator and lightweight CMS that’s all managed with text files. No complex setup, databases, or administrative panels. Simple, beautiful, and yummy.

Laravel – A Clean & Classy PHP Framework

Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from
spaghetti code, Laravel helps you create wonderful applications using simple, expressive
syntax. Development should be a creative experience that you enjoy, not something that is
painful. Enjoy the fresh air.

 

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Microsoft’s modern.IE

MS released a site dedicated to testing old versions of MSIE. In addition to a tester you can use right in the site, they offer up virtual machines for VirtualBox that cover all versions of MSIE, including MSIE 10.

Home | Testing made easier in Internet Explorer | modern.IE

modern.IE is a dev center – free tools & resources – built so you can spend less time testing for the various versions of Internet Explorer and more time building what matters to you on the modern web.

We recognize that there are still a lot of users that browse with older versions of Internet Explorer. And while modern web standards andautomatic updates with platform previews might be steps in the right direction, we know that the range of devices and browser versions still present a real challenge for your testing matrix. modern.IE is a way we can help move the web forward by making it easier to build innovative experiences with web standards like HTML5 & CSS3 while supporting older versions of IE.