Two new Open Web series: Open Web Podcast and This Week In HTML 5
By Dion
Almaer, Google Developer ProgramsThis week has seen two
new series to cover Open Web technology. One of the messages from Google I/O was explaining
how Google believes in, and is frankly betting on the Web as its platform. You should expect
to see increasing examples of how we are putting our money (and effort) where our mouth is on
this.
Since the Web is so decentralized, we have a deep need to
communicate and discuss where we, as a collective are heading.
I have
the pleasure to be joined by Alex Russell, notably of the Dojo Foundation, and John Resig,
both creator of jQuery and employee of Mozilla Corp, for a new
Open
Web Podcast that focuses on news, events, and opinion on the state of the Open
Web.
In the first episode, which you can either
download
directly or
subscribe
to, we delve into a lot of topics including new APIs and specifications, the new
charge behind Firebug, the Open Web Foundation, and much more.
The
early part of the podcast actually discusses the other series that started this week. Mark
Pilgrim, a team-mate of mine at Google, kicked off
This Week in HTML 5.
Mark is taking the time to keep track of the myriad of changes to the specification, and will
keep us abreast of the important features and decisions that are made by the group, head by
our own Ian Hickson.
Mark discusses the big additions of
Web Workers (Gears
Workers standardized), and the clarification of
alt
tag usage in the img tag to have you using
alt="{diagram}"
and the like.
If you are interested in keeping up to date on HTML 5,
you can
subscribe to the WHATWG feed
which is where Mark is doing his work.
If there is anything else that
you would like to see from us, please drop us a comment below!
