Web development news for the 48th week of 2011:

JavaScript

JavaScript Weekly, Issue #55 - December 2nd, 2011

JavaScript Libraries Now Used by 50% of Top 1m Web Sites, Principles of Writing Consistent Idiomatic JavaScript, Nondeterministic Turing Machine Simulator in 23 Lines of JavaScript, …

I also found Extending JavaScript Natives by Angus Croll very interesting. It covers a lot of the reasons why we all know not to extend natives in JavaScript, but also mentions a few cases where it might make sense to bend this rule.

HTML 5

HTML 5 Weekly, Issue #15 - November 30th, 2011

Stitches - An HTML5 Sprite Generator, Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery, HTML5 Semantics and Good Coding Practices, …