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 [...]

Okay, the news this week leans pretty heavily towards general web development stuff rather than Javascript specifically, but it’s good stuff. I promise.
ChromeKit
ChromeKit is a new library for creating desktop-like UI elements in the browser. It allows you to create windows with full chrome that allow you to do all of the things you’d expect [...]

Another week is on its way out, so it’s time to look back at some of the cool stuff you folks have been working on in the week that was.
Ext JS is now Sencha
Ext JS, the company behind the Ext JS Javascript libraries and tools, has changed its name to Sencha. To go along with [...]

I just played with JSonduit, and was able to make a data feed from the JSMag blog feed in about 6 minutes.
http://jsonduit.com/feedinfo.html?id=7q6 takes you to the feed info, with the ability to create a custom widget for display on a site.
With some slightly stronger authoring tools, this would allow ‘common folk’ to identify parts of [...]

We’re trying something new here at JSMag: in addition to the monthly news column in the magazine, we’ll be featuring a weekly roundup of news here on the blog. We’ve got some great stuff to talk about this week, so let’s dive in.
Traits.js
Traits.js is a library that allows you to use traits in Javascript. In [...]

On the heels of my recent find, I stumbled on this collection of multiple JavaScript demos.  I’m both blown away by many of these, and yet, at the same time, becoming slightly jaded by all the JavaScript goodness being realized these days.  On one level, I *know* this stuff is possible, so it doesn’t feel [...]