When we set out to develop CSS Regions we knew that most innovative applications of the technology would come from creative integrations with other web standards. Shadow DOM is one such example of a web standard just itching to be experimented with. Shadow DOM is the enabling technology for Web Components, a W3C proposal which... Continue reading →
Monthly Archives: June, 2012
Test the Web Forward Weekend!
Test the Web Forward took place in San Francisco last weekend and we are happy to bring you the gory details of what went down! In short, we had more than 70 people writing about 90 tests (and reviewing a similar number) for at least 9 CSS and SVG specifications! The Beginning The Web Platform... Continue reading →
CSS Exclusions and Shape Intersection
CSS Exclusions promises to open up a new class of magazine-style layouts for the web. As you might imagine, the feature also brings with it a bunch of compelling engineering challenges. One example is efficiently computing the intersection of the horizontal boxes that represent inline content with the inside or outside of polygonal exclusion shapes.... Continue reading →
Check out Crowdsource Testing with QUnit and Browserscope
Web applications need to be tested on multiple browsers and versions to make sure users get a consistent experience. There are multiple ways to do this, some more manual than others. Recently Razvan Caliman wrote a post about how to crowdsource your testing with QUnit and and Browserscope.org, an opensource testing platform. If you create JavaScript... Continue reading →
Come to Adobe Web Platform’s session at Google I/O
We are incredibly excited to have an opportunity to speak at Google I/O. For anyone who has been, you know its a high-energy event where you can learn so much about innovative features for web, mobile and social. Also, Google I/O is right in our backyard – here in sunny San Francisco, so we never... Continue reading →
W3C’s testharness comes to WebKit
With the help of WebKit contributors, we recently landed a patch that made the W3C JavaScript test harness available for use by WebKit test authors – providing a new set of opportunities for reuse and portability between the W3C and WebKit test repositories. In the old world, before the landing of this patch, both the... Continue reading →
Registration Now Open for Test the Web Forward!
We have just opened up registration for Test the Web Forward, a test-focused hackathon that educates you about new web standards and how to write reference tests for them. The event will be at the Adobe San Francisco office and will be full of code, food and fun. Join us, the W3C and community partners... Continue reading →