"So here we're collecting all the shims, fallbacks, and polyfills in order to implant html5 functionality in browsers that don't natively support them.

The general idea is that: we, as developers, should be able to develop with the HTML5 apis, and scripts can create the methods and objects that should exist. Developing in this future-proof way means as users upgrade, your code doesn't have to change but users will move to the better, native experience cleanly."

"The main focus of CamanJS is manipulating images using the HTML5 canvas and Javascript. It's a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques. It is also completely library independent and can be safely used next to jQuery, YUI, Scriptaculous, MooTools, etc."

"Modernizr is an open-source JavaScript library that helps you build the next generation of HTML5 and CSS3-powered websites."

"Compatibility tables for support of HTML5, CSS3, SVG and more in desktop and mobile browsers."

"Look up HTML5, CSS3, etc features, know if they are ready for use, and if so find out how you should use them – with polyfills, fallbacks or as they are."

"Typed Arrays can significantly increase the pixel manipulation performance of your HTML5 2D canvas Web apps. This is of particular importance to developers looking to use HTML5 for making browser-based games."

"PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies and get access to APIs and app stores. PhoneGap leverages web technologies developers already know best... HTML and JavaScript."

"Impact is a JavaScript Game Engine that allows you to develop stunning HTML5 Games for desktop and mobile browsers."

I made this totally post-rock song with it -> http://www.technitone.com/view/lw6udoo0nb3

"Fabric.js is a framework that makes it easy to work with HTML5 canvas element. It is an interactive object model on top of canvas element. It is also an SVG-to-canvas (and canvas-to-SVG) parser.

Using Fabric.js, you can create and populate objects on canvas; objects like simple geometrical shapes — rectangles, circles, ellipses, polygons, or more complex shapes consisting of hundreds or thousands of simple paths. You can then scale, move, and rotate these objects with the mouse; modify their properties — color, transparency, z-index, etc. You can also manipulate these objects altogether — grouping them with a simple mouse selection.

You can add text on canvas and dynamically manipulate its size, alignment, fontfamily and other properties. You can apply filters to images, making them grayscale or removing background. You can serialize the entire canvas into a JSON string — saving it locally or on a server — then completely restore it at any time. You can also export canvas data back into SVG at any time."

Applications like KISSmetrics can track users using ETags without their consent.

"JavaScript localStorage wrapper library."

"Paper.js is an open source vector graphics scripting framework that runs on top of the HTML5 Canvas. It offers a clean Scene Graph / Document Object Model and a lot of powerful functionality to create and work with vector graphics and bezier curves, all neatly wrapped up in a well designed, consistent and clean programming interface.

Paper.js is based on and largely compatible with Scriptographer, a scripting environment for Adobe Illustrator with an active community of scripters and more than 10 years of development.

Paper.js is developed by Jürg Lehni & Jonathan Puckey, and distributed under the permissive MIT License."

Very cool, render PDFs natively with JavaScript and HTML5 (Work in progress)

"This is an implementation of the Knuth and Plass line breaking algorithm using JavaScript and the HTML5 canvas element. The goal of this implementation is to optimally set justified text in the new HTML5 canvas element, and ultimately provide a library for various line breaking algorithms in JavaScript."

EaselJS is a JavaScript library that allows you to work with the Canvas element in ActionScript style.

How to use the iWebKit free framework to create web applications that behave like iOS native applications.

Good overview of the steps your web application needs to perform in order to behave like a native iOS application:
* strip away the browser chrome (the url bar and button bar);
* prevent viewport scrolling and scaling;
* respond to multi-touch and gesture events;
* use webkit CSS to get the iPhone OS look and feel;
* cache the app so it runs without internet access;
* get a custom icon on the home screen; and
* have a splash screen load at the start.

Eric Meyer on upcoming stuff in CSS3. (Excerpted from the book "Smashing CSS")

How to make a one-page application available offline.

"Montage is a flexible web-based service that makes it fun and easy to create and share a visual album of the web on the topics you care about. You can design your Montage around any topic you can imagine by adding content that pulls information from a variety of sources, including RSS feeds, Twitter, Bing News, and YouTube. Montage is an expression of you. "

Nerd Communications have a fun/impressive website!

"An interactive film by Chris Milk / Featuring "We Used To Wait" / Built in HTML5"

This is so awesome it makes my brain explode.

"Using HTML5 and Flash, SoundManager 2 provides reliable cross-platform audio under a single JavaScript API."