Interviews

23. Can JavaScript Totally Replace Flash Now? - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 13

Posted on: 2011-11-30

Now that Adobe has given up for the development of the Flash plug-in for mobile browsers, many users want them to go ahead and cease Flash development completely, as HTML 5 capable browsers can do most with JavaScript APIs of what can be done with Flash.

The question is: can JavaScript APIs really do all that can be done with Flash? This was the main topic of the episode 13 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast discussed by Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal, along with the guest, Dino Gambone, a Web developer enthusiast JavaScript based games.

They also cover the recent capability of Googlebot to execute JavaScript to crawl Facebook comments, the ScriptCover extension for performing JavaScript code coverage and animation timeline visual editing with Timeline.js.

Listen to the podcast or read to the audio transcript now to know more about these topics of discussion.

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10. Developing JavaScript Applications using PHP functions - Lately in JavaScript podcast - Episode 5

Posted on: 2011-03-28

PHP.js is a JavaScript library that provides the same functions as the PHP language in JavaScript. Manuel Lemos and Michael Kimsal interview Brett Zamir, one of the main developers of the PHP.JS project, to tell us more about it on episode 5 of the Lately in JavaScript podcast.

On this episode they also discuss the JavaScript related improvements of the latest releases of Internet Explorer 9, Firefox 4, Chrome 10 and Opera 11.

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