JavaScript
How to structure your JavaScript code
Peter Michaux has shared how he structures his code these days, as he has settled on a pattern:
The code example below is a simple little logger widget. It appends messages to a list and has a clea ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Delaying JavaScript Execution
Matt has a nice post on delaying JavaScript execution in a way that waits for certain events to finish:
If you're looking to execute JavaScript code whenever someone finishes (or stops temporary) s ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Fronteers Conference Videos Available on the YDN Theater
The Fronteers conference recently held in Amsterdam featured a bevvy of top shelf speakers. Developers such as Dean Edwards, Stuart Langridge, Chris Heilmann and Tom Occhino, among others, discussed J ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Form.Check: Great Form Validation for MooTools
Form validation is one of those problems that every IT developer has to deal with at one point or another. Form.Check is a MooTools plug-in library for dealing with client-side validation easily:
A ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Fixing Loss of Focus on IE
Continuing with SitePen stories for today, Dustin Machi posted a short but interesting piece on how to detect loss of focus on IE6.
So your cool new app is perfect, but you want it to lock the user ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Reinhardt: Client-side URL Dispatching from SitePen
Kevin Dangoor from SitePen recently announced the release of a small pet project: Reinhardt. From the blog:
A typical server-side web framework today includes three main components: a URL dispatchi ....... read more
Wed,
22 Oct 2008
Peppy: New CSS 3 selector engine
James Donaghue has released Peppy, the first release of his CSS 3 compliant selector engine that runs independent of one particular library (and can thus be used with any of them).
He has some bold cl ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Great JavaScript and CSS Menu Libraries
Noupe is doing a good job cataloging content, such as their post on great JavaScript CSS menu libraries which features:
Sexy Sliding Menu - Andrew Sellick decided to use mootools due to the smooth ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Building a JavaScript table grid application with TaffyDB
Back in March, we posted about Ian Smiths newest project, TaffyDB, the lightweight JavaScript library that acts as thin data layer inside Web 2.0 and Ajax applications.
Ian contacted us to let us kno ....... read more
Fri,
17 Oct 2008
Another look at JavaScript inheritance
Stoyan Stefanov of Yahoo! has published a nice article on JavaScript's class-less objects.
This is published on JavaRanch, so it talks to the Java community, and uses that lense to explain the differe ....... read more
Thu,
16 Oct 2008
Say Goodbye to alert()
Blackbird, G. Scott Olson's JavaScript logging library, truly has a catchy slogan. The slogan "Say hello to Blackbird and 'goodbye' to alert()" definitely captures what the Blackbird library aims to d ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008
Using JavaScript to make things work
An interesting top 12 list has been published, on using JavaScript to fix 12 common browser headaches:
Setting Equal Heights (jQuery example: $("#col1, #col2").equalizeCols())
IE6 PNG Alpha Transpe ....... read more
Wed,
15 Oct 2008
Maintainable JavaScript videos are now available.
One month ago, the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam featured several deep dive talks on various web development topics. Stuart Langridge for example explained in detail what closures are and I talk ....... read more
Fri,
10 Oct 2008
An Interesting Twist on a Pastebin
Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin Pastie.org are extremely popular because theyre easy to use and very effective in letting people comp ....... read more
Thu,
09 Oct 2008
How does the scoping work with eval()?
Rakesh Pai wanted to understand scope issues with eval and found a few surprises.
He started with the snippet:
PLAIN TEXT
JavaScript:
var foo = 123
var bar = {
changeFoo: fun ....... read more
Thu,
09 Oct 2008
Regex performance in modern JSVMs
Based on its performance on the regexes it does handle, WREC (WebKit Regular Expression Compiler) is indeed an awesome design. regexp-dna.js, however, is flawed and exaggerates SFX performance.
We co ....... read more
Tue,
07 Oct 2008
Extreme JavaScript Performance; John Resig on Ars
Ars Technica has a new columnist, John Resig. His first piece is on Extreme JavaScript Performance which has started to come to us in abundance recently!
His article focuses on the latest updates to t ....... read more
Wed,
08 Oct 2008
js.io: client library for networking
Michael Carter et al have been working on js.io, a client library that gives you networking, including Comet like support, via JavaScript.
The low level work can sit upon Comet APIs, and in the futur ....... read more
Mon,
06 Oct 2008
Thinking about the difference between frameworks
I got to meet Aaron Newton at The Ajax Experience, and he is a thinker. He was really taking in the various talks, and interactions, and you could tell that he was trying to work out various angles on ....... read more
Fri,
03 Oct 2008
Practical Functional JavaScript
Oliver Steele gave a great talk at The Ajax Experience this week on Practical Functional JavaScript.
For his talk, he ended up creating a samples application where you can run the code directly, very ....... read more
Fri,
03 Oct 2008