Canto
Canvas is one of the most exciting features of HTML5, but it’s not necessarily an easy tool to use. Even once you’ve gotten the hang of it, the code written in service of the API can be extremely verbose, and not very pleasant to look at. No less than David Flanagan, author of the Rhino [...]

Dojo 1.5 Released
Dojo 1.5 is out, and there’s a heck of a lot of new stuff in this release. In addition to improvements to the core codebase, there are scads of extremely useful feature additions. For instance, Dojo now shows how forward-looking it is with its excellent cross-browser support for HTML5 & CSS3 features, such [...]

Diffable
Diffable is a new project from a scrappy little web firm called Google. Here’s the idea behind Diffable: If a user has a version of your page’s Javascripts cached, the next time that user visits your page, they’ll only have to download any changes to those scripts.
Diffable was initially developed by members of the [...]

Are people taking summer vacations out there, or what? It’s been a bit of a slow news week on the Javascript front, but don’t worry, we’ve got plenty of great stuff to keep you busy.
Data URIs make CSS sprites obsolete
The always prolific Nicholas Zakas has a great post up on his blog titled Data URIs [...]

A lot of this week’s news this week is from some of the big shots (Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Mozilla), but it’s still pretty cool stuff so read on for the latest.
ES5 support in IE9
The Internet Explorer team has been hard at work on building as much ECMAScript5 (ES5) support as possible into IE9.
Kangax has updated [...]