Writing Effective JavaScript Unit Tests with YUI Test
13 hours ago
One of the biggest under-the-radar movements in JavaScript development during 2008 was the reemergence of an interest in unit testing. YUI Test , YUI's unit testing framework, reached GA status in .......
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Keywords: testing unit set method code
Filed under: Development
13 hours ago
One of the biggest under-the-radar movements in JavaScript development during 2008 was the reemergence of an interest in unit testing. YUI Test , YUI's unit testing framework, reached GA status in .......
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog Keywords: testing unit set method code
Filed under: Development
?I won?t support IE 6 in 2009?
3 days ago
At a New Years Eve party, a friend help up a drink and toasted to his company deciding to discontinue direct support of IE 6 in 2009, and letting users know that the site may work better with IE 7 .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: work
Filed under: Browsers Front Page IE
3 days ago
At a New Years Eve party, a friend help up a drink and toasted to his company deciding to discontinue direct support of IE 6 in 2009, and letting users know that the site may work better with IE 7 .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: work
Filed under: Browsers Front Page IE
Why Load Testing Ajax is Hard
5 days ago
Today we are fortunate to have a guest post by Patrick Lightbody, most recently of BrowserMob fame (and previously Selenium work, OpenQA, WebWork, and more). Let's listen in to him talk to us about .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: testing load ajax real search
Filed under: Front Page Testing
5 days ago
Today we are fortunate to have a guest post by Patrick Lightbody, most recently of BrowserMob fame (and previously Selenium work, OpenQA, WebWork, and more). Let's listen in to him talk to us about .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: testing load ajax real search
Filed under: Front Page Testing
UniversalComet: Make any web page a Comet end point
5 days ago
How about if all you needed to do was: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: * * var server = new Addressable.Server({ useGears: true }) * * server.onmessage = function (me .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: client messages uri javascript
Filed under: Comet Front Page
5 days ago
How about if all you needed to do was: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: * * var server = new Addressable.Server({ useGears: true }) * * server.onmessage = function (me .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: client messages uri javascript
Filed under: Comet Front Page
If you won?t file a bug, maybe test in a screen reader?
5 days ago
John Resig wants us to file bug reports to browser vendors but what about accessibility? Is that a responsibility that we have as Web developers? Todd Kloots of Yahoo! shows us how to configure .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: developers testing screen install states
Filed under: Front Page
5 days ago
John Resig wants us to file bug reports to browser vendors but what about accessibility? Is that a responsibility that we have as Web developers? Todd Kloots of Yahoo! shows us how to configure .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: developers testing screen install states
Filed under: Front Page
MD5 hash collision gets people worried about PKI
6 days ago
The paper on MD5 considered harmful today delivered at the 25th Annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin has got people scared again. The team showed an MD5 collision which is well explain .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: certificates site trust security
Filed under: Front Page Security
6 days ago
The paper on MD5 considered harmful today delivered at the 25th Annual Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin has got people scared again. The team showed an MD5 collision which is well explain .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: certificates site trust security
Filed under: Front Page Security
Configuring Your Machine For Testing With A Screen Reader
6 days ago
When developing using the WAI-ARIA Roles and States , you need to test your code in a screen reader to ensure everything is working as you expect. As a follow up to my presentation on Developing A .......
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog
Keywords: screen dialog configure
Filed under: Development
6 days ago
When developing using the WAI-ARIA Roles and States , you need to test your code in a screen reader to ensure everything is working as you expect. As a follow up to my presentation on Developing A .......
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Yahoo! User Interface Blog Keywords: screen dialog configure
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Ajax Experience Videos: Performance and Security
6 days ago
Thanks to the folks at Adobe, we've got video of pretty much every session from the Ajax Experience 2008 that we can share on-line, free of charge. We'll release them over the next week or so in ba .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: web sites session performance security
Filed under: Front Page Screencast The Ajax Experience
6 days ago
Thanks to the folks at Adobe, we've got video of pretty much every session from the Ajax Experience 2008 that we can share on-line, free of charge. We'll release them over the next week or so in ba .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: web sites session performance security
Filed under: Front Page Screencast The Ajax Experience
New Years Resolution: File a browser bug?
6 days ago
John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developer's Responsibility , and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs: It's safe to say that the bi .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: bugs browser developers filing browsers
Filed under: Browsers Front Page Testing
6 days ago
John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developer's Responsibility , and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs: It's safe to say that the bi .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: bugs browser developers filing browsers
Filed under: Browsers Front Page Testing
Britain from Above
6 days ago
The Britain from Above BBC programme and website doesn't seem to use the BBC library Glow but instead has nice Mootools effects on the front page and a jQuery Carousel on sub pages . The effects .......
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Ajaxian
Filed under: Front Page Showcase bbc
6 days ago
The Britain from Above BBC programme and website doesn't seem to use the BBC library Glow but instead has nice Mootools effects on the front page and a jQuery Carousel on sub pages . The effects .......
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Ajaxian Filed under: Front Page Showcase bbc
Web Security: Number one attack vector?
6 days ago
Jeremiah Grossman, our number one Web security chap, has some interesting words as we jump into 2009: It?s unanimous. Web application security is the #1 avenue of attack according to basically .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: security 2009. web
Filed under: Front Page Security
6 days ago
Jeremiah Grossman, our number one Web security chap, has some interesting words as we jump into 2009: It?s unanimous. Web application security is the #1 avenue of attack according to basically .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: security 2009. web
Filed under: Front Page Security
Eeking out performance in script loading
7 days ago
Steve Souders has detailed the coupling of script loading with various asynchronous techniques with examples that show the timings that you can get. First he sets the scene: One issue with asy .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: script inline loading code
Filed under: Front Page
7 days ago
Steve Souders has detailed the coupling of script loading with various asynchronous techniques with examples that show the timings that you can get. First he sets the scene: One issue with asy .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: script inline loading code
Filed under: Front Page
tyPhoGraphic: Declarative CSS Transformations
7 days ago
The demo above is tyPhoGraphic a declarative CSS transformation library. If you check out a demo with a browser that supports the CSS declarations, you can see that the work is done via: PLAIN .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: 2009. transformation
Filed under: CSS Front Page
7 days ago
The demo above is tyPhoGraphic a declarative CSS transformation library. If you check out a demo with a browser that supports the CSS declarations, you can see that the work is done via: PLAIN .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: 2009. transformation
Filed under: CSS Front Page
mod_v8: Another Server Side JavaScript
7 days ago
Paul Querna wrote a fun little Apache module called mod_v8 that offers a proof of concept of Yet Another Server Side JavaScript: After using Rhino for server side javascript at work , I can s .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: time javascript apache java side
Filed under: Front Page JavaScript ssjs
7 days ago
Paul Querna wrote a fun little Apache module called mod_v8 that offers a proof of concept of Yet Another Server Side JavaScript: After using Rhino for server side javascript at work , I can s .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: time javascript apache java side
Filed under: Front Page JavaScript ssjs
Kaazing Gateway 8.12 Battlestar Available
8 days ago
Kaazing keeps on moving with its Java Comet server, and just released a new version. It will be interesting to see if real-time connections take off in 2009. Kaazing is happy to announce the se .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: html kaazing support gateway
Filed under: Comet Front Page
8 days ago
Kaazing keeps on moving with its Java Comet server, and just released a new version. It will be interesting to see if real-time connections take off in 2009. Kaazing is happy to announce the se .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: html kaazing support gateway
Filed under: Comet Front Page
MenuBar and Menu
10 days ago
I checked in some changes over the past few days to support both horizontal menus (aka MenuBar) and vertical menus statically appearing on a page, rather than popping up. i.e., menus that are alwa .......
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The Dojo Toolkit blogs
Keywords: menus file page appearing vertical
10 days ago
I checked in some changes over the past few days to support both horizontal menus (aka MenuBar) and vertical menus statically appearing on a page, rather than popping up. i.e., menus that are alwa .......
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The Dojo Toolkit blogs Keywords: menus file page appearing vertical
A Christmas Wish: ?I promise not to use document.write()? mode
12 days ago
While dosing off last night a few conversations stirred up in my semi-consciousness. They were of work arounds and layout issues. Too many were "We have to do this in case a script does a document. .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: claus santa script
Filed under: Front Page
12 days ago
While dosing off last night a few conversations stirred up in my semi-consciousness. They were of work arounds and layout issues. Too many were "We have to do this in case a script does a document. .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: claus santa script
Filed under: Front Page
Mouse-based Ubiquity: A Prototype and a Failure
12 days ago
We've been watching over the last little while as the Humanized crew has leveraged their experience with Enso to create Ubiquity , an in-development command-line interface for the browser. But wh .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: aza ubiquity
Filed under: Firefox Front Page
12 days ago
We've been watching over the last little while as the Humanized crew has leveraged their experience with Enso to create Ubiquity , an in-development command-line interface for the browser. But wh .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: aza ubiquity
Filed under: Firefox Front Page
Giving developers and users responsiveness data
12 days ago
I posted on my personal blog about using the crowd to tell us about browser responsiveness in which I discussed giving developers information about browser responsiveness and how add-ons can affec .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: sample cpu
Filed under: Browsers Front Page
12 days ago
I posted on my personal blog about using the crowd to tell us about browser responsiveness in which I discussed giving developers information about browser responsiveness and how add-ons can affec .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: sample cpu
Filed under: Browsers Front Page
UA Profiler Improves
12 days ago
Steve Souders has updated his UA Profiler tool that tracks the performance traits of various browsers. Being able to drill down and see the differences from build to build is great stuff, and here .......
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Ajaxian
Keywords: results tested firefox browser
Filed under: Front Page
12 days ago
Steve Souders has updated his UA Profiler tool that tracks the performance traits of various browsers. Being able to drill down and see the differences from build to build is great stuff, and here .......
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Ajaxian Keywords: results tested firefox browser
Filed under: Front Page