Decided to start something new with Dion Almaer (of Ajaxian.com fame) and Alex Russell (Dojo frame) - a podcast! We talk about the "Open Web" (the topics break down in to standards, development, JavaScript, tools - all sorts of things). We're working to get it up on iTunes (I'll be sure to update when it [...]
11 Comments · Posted: August 9th, 2008 · Tags: html5, whatwg, w3c, podcast
I was playing around with DOM DocumentFragments recently, in JavaScript, seeing what I could make with them. Roughly speaking, a DocumentFragment is a lightweight container that can hold DOM nodes. It's part of the DOM 1 specification and is supported in all modern browsers (it was added to Internet Explorer in version 6).
In reading up [...]
50 Comments · Posted: July 21st, 2008 · Tags: javascript, dom
I've got a mini-announcement. Starting this week about half of my time at Mozilla is going to be spent driving the direction of the brand-new Mozilla Firebug team. I'm, understandably, quite excited about this proposition. Like all web developers I've found Firebug to be an invaluable tool for web development.
We have a great team forming [...]
73 Comments · Posted: July 17th, 2008 · Tags: firebug, firefox, mozilla
I've had a little utility that I've been kicking around for some time now that I've found to be quite useful in my JavaScript application-building endeavors. It's a super-simple templating function that is fast, caches quickly, and is easy to use. I have a couple tricks that I use to make it real fun to [...]
76 Comments · Posted: July 16th, 2008 · Tags: javascript
A new feature being introduced in HTML 5 is the addition of custom data attributes. This is a, seemingly, bizarre addition to the specification - but actually provides a number of useful benefits.
Simply, the specification for custom data attributes states that any attribute that starts with "data-" will be treated as a storage area for [...]
44 Comments · Posted: July 13th, 2008 · Tags: html5, data, dom, javascript
This week I've been busy working on implementing a test suite for the Selectors API specification. I picked up a new microphone recently so I decided to do a quick walkthrough of the work that I've been doing and how I've been going about it. You can view the the video below:
Implementing a Selectors API [...]
18 Comments · Posted: July 10th, 2008 · Tags: w3c, mozilla, firefox, css
A fun blog post popped up yesterday in which John Nunemaker ported a Quicksilver-style Live Search to jQuery. Taking a look at his code, I decided to have a little fun and re-port it to jQuery - trying to use the functional style that jQuery promotes. I think the end result is quite simple and [...]
45 Comments · Posted: July 8th, 2008 · Tags: javascript, jquery
There is no such thing as a JavaScript plugin contends James Coglan. I completely agree that there are no, specific, techniques within the JavaScript language that make "plugins" possible (such as the ability to namespace code and import it, or some such).
HOWEVER - I will contend that such a thing as plugins exist and are [...]
22 Comments · Posted: July 2nd, 2008 · Tags: jquery, javascript
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