Whoa, what a week! First the news about Google buying Motorola (mobile division). That came kind a out of nowhere but seems to have hurt Google, if anything at least in stock price. Then again, the stock market is down all round and Googles price fluctuates a lot. They can take a punch.

Later this week HP figured this would be the best time to announce it’s discontinuation of the TouchPad (and phones) as well as maybe selling WebOS and the entire PC side of things from it’s main corp. And although the Touchpad was not quite torpedoed down by reviews (although was comparable to the first iPad, never the second), nobody seems to be surprised about this move. Although brokers don’t seem to agree with the move as a whole, looking at the stock price of HP. Or what’s left of it anyways.

The move by Google is most likely more about patents than about getting a foot in the door in the mobile world. It seems to be more about patents than anything else. Especially with Motorola continueing as is. Yeah right. Let’s hope the new some thousand patents bring some peace to the patent battle field. Also unlikely.

And let’s not forget about the European Apple vs Samsung debacle. Even though Apple received a European wide injunction (based on something called …, do read up on this splendid concept), it was quickly revoked on the basis of doubt of jurisdiction. Which of course made a huge amount of sense to any sane person. On top of that, it turned out later that Apple (for whatever intend) seems to have misled the courts slightly by altering the proof such that Samsungs Galaxy looked more like the iPad than it actually did. This by itself might not seem very important, but since this case is all and just about the way the iPad looks (the Community Design), changing the dimension of the “offending” tablet in your proof in order to get this injunction, seems like a doubtful move at best.

So mobile land is pretty much take over, sunset and clash of the Titans. But what happened in our community? Well let’s take a look at JS Goodies to see what kind of cool stuff has been released the past week (or whatever). For instance, I know you’re just dying to use git from your js environment. Maybe chat from it using Candy? Or decode images, you can even pick your own format! There was an interesting article about abusing Twitter’s new url reduction system, where the api would still send you the original link thus allowing you more than 140 chars. Maybe you’re more into the page visibility API? Or the ever lasting discussion about extending built-ins. Ooh, no, wait, I know, this dom3d thing is just for you! Once you fixed the typeof operator, that is. And if you want to learn something new you might want to read about the indeterminate state of checkboxes. There’s always room to improve canvas performance. Here’s a very interesting doc on how browsers work. If you want to talk to your browser you should take a look at speak.js. And of course my new personal favorite ipsum generator. Last but not least, you can now use VNC with js.

Of course, there are plenty of webgl demos to go ’round. Do make sure to open them in a webgl-capable browser on a webgl capable video card ;)

That’s all for this week.

This is Zee Closure; a weekly overview of what happened in mobile land and the JavaScript community. This was the first blog post of hopefully many to come. It will mainly describe what happened in the soap we call web development and run through the interesting links I’ve posted in js.gd, my link dump. I’ll try to post an entry on this blog every friday and if I can’t, I will ask one of my marvelous collegues from Uxebu. You can follow the link dump on @jsgoodies. That’s also the place to report new interesting links.