But the holidays are coming soon!

Decorated Christmas trees appear on the streets, shops draw discount price tags, children frantically finish up another poem for Santa Claus (it’s clear that they are deceived again, but this time they’ll be lucky and the real one will come ?!). Everything around yells: Soon! Holiday will come soon! Forget all the failures and sadness in the old year!

If the approach of the holiday was a surprise for you (after all, IT people are people who are passionate about their work), get distracted, postpone the layout for later - it won’t go anywhere from you, just listen to Bruce Lawson’s Web Development New Year:



Opera 11.60's out
with loads of new stuff in it
I'll tell you what it's about
in a festive minute.
Site compatibility
got more robust and faster.
In your yuletide sock is Ragnarok,
Our HTML5 parser.

HTML video
shines as bright as reindeer noses.
It can be buffered and be seekable.
muted and preloaded.
We all love our gradients!
So thank the Angel Gabrial!
not just boring linear
but super-sexy radial.

All cool kids love Ecmascript
So shout out your hurrays!
We've got the mode that's oh-so-stict
And lovely typed arrays.
A present that is heaven sent
is the DOM Event Constructor.
Without it, synthetic events
are a total ... monkeyfighter *.

Deck the halls with protocols
Light the yuletide candles.
You can define the content types
that your web apps should handle.
All platforms, even Win 2K
though that O / S is shoddy.
For Opera's wish for the new year
is the Web for everybody.