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Ajax Accessibility

A common concern of most Ajax applications has been around their resulting accessibility. While, arguably, it's possible to design some form of a usable web page without the use of JavaScript it should be possible - with the additional scripting information - to provide a better experience to users. It's at this point that the [...]

11 Comments · Posted: April 29th, 2008 · Tags: ajax, javascript, accessibility, mozilla, firefox, aria


Running Java in JavaScript

Welcome Waxy.org and Slashdot readers. I blog about JavaScript, like it's my job, feel free to subscribe for a ton more posts like this.

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When I was in Tokyo this past fall speaking at the Shibuya.JS user group I [...]

25 Comments · Posted: April 28th, 2008 · Tags: java, javascript, jvm


Versions of JavaScript

With the recent talk of JavaScript 1.9 there's been some confusion as to what exactly that version means - especially in relation to other browsers. Here's a quick breakdown:

IE 6-7 support JScript 5 (which is equivalent to ECMAScript 3, JavaScript 1.5)
IE 8 supports JScript 6 (which is equivalent to ECMAScript 3, JavaScript 1.5 - more [...]

10 Comments · Posted: April 22nd, 2008 · Tags: javascript, ecmascript


Mozilla Build and Test Integration

Lately I've been investigating how Mozilla's build and test system works (there's a number of pieces that tend to have a pretty tight integration and I wanted to learn more). I asked developer Ben Hearsum and he kindly obliged. I've included the questions and information here in the hopes that others will be able to [...]

2 Comments · Posted: April 22nd, 2008 · Tags: mozilla, build, testing


JavaScript Ninja Jobs

After an outpouring of interest, in last week's post about JavaScript Jobs, I've gone about and set up a free site dedicated to JavaScript Jobs, which can be found here:

http://jobs.jsninja.com/

It's pretty basic, for now. I used the Open Source jobberBase software (which uses jQuery!) so it was pretty easy. All jobs go through a simple [...]

14 Comments · Posted: April 20th, 2008 · Tags: book, javascript, jobs


Feed of JavaScript Jobs?

» JavaScript Ninja JavaScript Jobs
I've set up a job board, which can be found here: JavaScript Ninja JavaScript Jobs.

Just a quick post, in a follow-up to this one on JavaScript Jobs: I still have a ton of JavaScript jobs sent my way (all the way from simple contract work up to full-blown expert-level developer positions), [...]

40 Comments · Posted: April 18th, 2008 · Tags: javascript, jobs


Summer Speaking

My summer/fall speaking schedule is starting to solidify - with some major intensity occurring around May. Let me know if you're going to be at, or around, any of these events - I'd love to meet up.

May 17-18 - BarCamp - Boston

Don't have an exact topic chosen yet, possibly something on jQuery.

May 20 - MeshU [...]

12 Comments · Posted: April 16th, 2008 · Tags: javascript, jquery, presentations, conferences


Planning JavaScript 1.9

The feature set for Firefox 3 has long been frozen, and committed - it's well on its way to becoming a polished browser, at this point. It's time to start looking ahead, specifically, at the feature set of JavaScript in the next version of the browser.

Traditionally JavaScript 1.X releases (1.6, 1.7, 1.8, and now 1.9) [...]

23 Comments · Posted: April 16th, 2008 · Tags: mozilla, ecmascript, javascript, firefox


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