June was a enthusiastic period for the Open Web. First, Apple delivered a one-two lick with showing Mobile Me, supercharged by the autochthonous Web and SproutCore, and display SquirrelFish as JavaScript starts to intend a loooot faster on browsers. Firefox had a band as jillions of grouping downloaded Firefox 3 effort release, and directly talked most 3.1 reaching soon. The flywheel is moving. Opera 9.5 is also there, and IE 8 beta 2 is reaching in August.

Velocity, the action conference, also showed the welfare in making the Web faster, as some tools were declared to support discover us devs. We also saw a aggregation of modify uses of Canvas/SVG, as developers withdraw baritone take and wager that they actually impact rattling well.

So, we set at the point of digit paths. On the digit hand, browsers are effort faster and faster and adding enthusiastic newborn profession for us (including diminutive things same CSS variables. finally!). On the added hand, we are creating more compelling individual experiences (e.g. 280 Slides, Mobile Me). These forces impact with apiece other. As we do icebox apps that near the boundaries, the browsers hit to become backwards with meliorate action and tools to match. Expectations are changing, and we requirement to correct them.

Here is the flooded roundup:

Browsers

Standards

Performance

JavaScript

ExtJS

Dojo

YUI

MooTools

jQuery

Gears, AIR, and more

Design: CSS, SVG, Canvas

Showcases

Utilties