It’s time again for the link picks of the week from the Mozilla Developer Engagement Team!

Personally, I must say I love putting together this list since no matter how much you try and stay in touch with what is going on, it’s always nice to get tips from others and to see what they choose and why. If you have any tips for us what to read, or thoughts on our links this week, please don’t hesitate to write a comment below!

Weekly links August 4th 2011

The links we have chosen this week are:

Christian Heilmann

A CRAP way to improve usability has some simple, but very effective tricks to build interfaces that are easier to understand.

Christian can be found on Twitter as @codepo8

Havi Hoffman

.net Magazine Awards 2011 – If you were stranded without Internet in 2011, you could catch up quickly on the tastiest design and development by visiting the nominee sites across all categories here. (P.S. Vote for MDN’s Rob Hawkes. )

Havi can be found on Twitter as @freshelectrons

Janet Swisher

What is HTML5? A look at the big-picture significance of HTML5 for web developers.

Janet can be found on Twitter as @jmswisher

Jay Patel

New Standards Effort Targets for Privacy, Data Control – A step in the right direction for consumer privacy and giving people more control over what happens to their data.

Jay can be found on Twitter as @jaybhai

Jeff Griffiths

Websocket draft 10 implementation lands in Chromium – This brings the supported protocol version in line with what is already implemented in Firefox 6 Beta, and signals to developers that soon 2 out of the 3 major browsers will have awesome websocket support.

Jeff can be found on Twitter as @canuckistani

John Karahalis

Ian Hickson on HTML5: Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, discusses the past, present, and future of HTML. In this interview, Hickson discusses his somewhat controversial prediction that HTML5 will not become a W3C Recommendation until 2022.

John can be found on Twitter as @openjck

Louis-Rémi Babe

Partial Application in JavaScript. JavaScript is not only easy to work with, this language also has distinctive features that could help you write less code and improve its quality.

Louis-Rémi can be found on Twitter as @Louis_Remi

Rob Hawkes

dat.gui is a lightweight and pretty settings panel that you can use on JavaScript experiments to manipulate variables and fire functions without having to edit code.

Rob can be found on Twitter as @robhawkes

Robert Nyman

A Modest Proposal for CSS3 Animations – Jonathan Snook discusses animation with CSS, and gives another perspective to how things could work.

Robert can be found on Twitter as @robertnyman

Tristan Nitot

The Browser by many other names : a browser is more than a rendering engine and a UI (user interface). Mitchell Baker, leader of the Mozilla project, explores what a browser can do when it comes to user sovereignty, or in other words, “to tune the Internet to the experience I want”.

Tristan can be found on Twitter as @nitot