jQuery Mobile Alpha 1 Is Released

Yesterday, jQuery‘s sister project jQuery Mobile, targeting mobile devices, was offered to the public for the first time. Like the jQuery UI framework, jQuery Mobile also offers the necessary stylesheets for its controls, turning the interface design into a quick and painless process with cross-device support across the various mobile devices. The alpha version can be downloaded from the project page and you can find the official announcement of the alpha release in jQuery Mobile Blog.

Drupal 7 Goes Beta

Being one of the most popular open source content management systems, Drupal, takes a big step towards the new version with huge changes. Few of the important changes that will affect the interaction of the users are:

• A brand new admin interface, that overlays the content and is easily accessible through any page
• Much better support for WYSIWYG editors
• A new input type that will make it much less complicated to add content
• Content construction kit and some other important modules made their way into the core, which makes adding new content types supported by default
• A file field and an image field is already available for use

For more details, download and the release schedule, you can visit Drupal project page.

Update: You can find the official blog entry about the release here.

Youtube Ceases IE6 Support!

No, that’s not a typo! I think we are getting rid of it, finally. I don’t know how many hours of development time has been lost because of that so-called “browser”. I know, that may sound harsh but if you are one of those “if it is even remotely like working, and even if there is an obvious way to fix it, don’t do anything until it completely breaks” type conservative guys who still use IE6; you should know that it’s finally broken! Well, at least it will, and on a very popular web site: Youtube, won’t try to fix anything for IE6 users anymore and this means, if any new functionality is added, IE6 will most probably fail to show the page properly. IE6 users will be greeted with a warning message like this one:

The warning message Youtube generates when viewed with IE6

I’ve also checked the page with IE5.5 and seen the future of IE6:

IE 5 even fails to display the warning message correctly

Needless to say, I’ve already started to wait for the same thing to happen to IE7! “Why should I update my browser? I just use it to watch videos on youtube and such…” is not a valid argument anymore! Please, everyone, start using Firefox!

This Is Where It Starts

Oh, I couldn’t find a creative title for my first post… Does it really matter so much? Whatever, I am very used to publishing weird starter posts so I won’t break the chain here!