A preview of WebGL, a new addition to HTML5’s Canvas element which allows for hardware accelerated 3D rendering. The Wolfire Blog has a great summary of the new standard currently being developed by the Khronos Group.

11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3: Nettuts compares the “old” and “new” methods for 11 design techniques like rounded corners, box shadows, and custom fonts.

“Getting harder and harder to find mobile platforms that don’t use WebKit.”

- John Gruber on the RIM acquiring Torch Mobile

Motorola’s first Android phone, the Cliq, with a custom UI.

A WebKit primer part 2 - CSS transitions: Wolfire blog posts a quick demo highlighting benefits of CSS transitions and a few samples.

Bulletproof @font-face syntax: Paul Irish explores the best, most robust @font-face syntax that works across all browsers (that support @font-face) and causes no unnecessary HTTP requests. (via kurafire)

Offline Web Apps on the iPhone: Boris Smus has posted a brief walkthrough in making his web app offline-capable on the iPhone.

“With HTML5, the web is not ending, nor is it starting over. It’s evolving, slowly and in full view of the public.”

- Eric Meyer

Animations, Transitions and 3D Transforms demo: A new demo from webkit.org showing off the 3D transform capabilities in Snow Leopard’s Safari. Even more impressive is that it also works on the iPhone.

Google’s Chrome Nabs Sony:

The Wall Street Journal:

Google is taking its campaign to promote its Chrome Web browser up a notch, sealing an alliance with Sony to have the Web browser pre-installed on some Sony notebook computers.

Get Ready for HTML 5: One of my favorite publications, A List Apart, updates today with an introduction to HTML5 including some resources, samples, and validation info. Great read.

“HTML5 is not perfect in our estimation, not that any markup language could be. In particular, we have significant concerns about some aspects of the specification. But we are optimistic that the official channels provided by the working group will offer a sufficient and fair hearing of our concerns.”

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HTML5 Super Friends is a new page set up by Jeffrey Zeldman, Dan Cederholm, Tantek Çelik, Wendy Chisholm, Aaron Gustafson, Jeremy Keith, Ethan Marcotte, Eric Meyer, and Nicole Sullivan.

Obviously, the most interesting part of the mini-site is their list of “significant concerns.”

Apple WebKit engineer named co-chair of HTML Working Group: Maciej Stachowiak, from Apple, will now be helping steer HTML5 as part of the W3C’s HTML Working Group. We can hope this means a focus on WebKit’s priorities for HTML5 like improved offline storage, background workers, and geo location.

3d Safari Sites: The recently released Snow Leopard finally brings 3d transitions to Safari (also available in WebKit on Leopard). This site provides a list of sites which demonstrate this impressive new feature.

Great photo collection of the HTC Hero (running a modified version of Android) from dailydesignbits:

So If I didnt have an iPhone I would probably snag up an HTC Hero… looks pretty freaking sweet! Photos via, and via!

Introducing KitMate: TextMate + WebKit: This project seems to be in its early stages (is that screenshot in Tiger?!), but the overall idea is nice: Creating a hybrid or Textmate and WebKit for quick, streamlined development. Would love to see a smoother, native implementation of this in Textmate, ala CSSEdit’s live preview.

“Our team of developers will join RIM’s global organization and will now be focused on utilizing our WebKit-based mobile browser expertise to contribute to the ongoing enhancement of the BlackBerry® platform.”

- Torch Mobile, the company behind the WebKit-based Iris browser, has been acquired by RIM, makers of the BlackBerry. The current BlackBerry browser is infamous for its many downfalls, so this is great news for both users and developers.