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 [...]
55 Comments · Posted: July 8th, 2008 · Tags: jquery, javascript
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 [...]
21 Comments · Posted: July 2nd, 2008 · Tags: jquery, javascript
Last week it came out that, in Firefox (and other Gecko-based browsers) you could dip into the private scope of a function using eval, like so:
[js]// Getting "private" variables
var obj = (function() {
var a = 21;
return {
// public function must reference 'a'
fn: function() [...]
19 Comments · Posted: July 2nd, 2008 · Tags: firefox, mozilla, javascript, links
Like every web developer I've spent a lot of time using the Firebug extension to Firefox in my day-to-day development. I've found it interesting to see how my development methodologies have changed with access to that tool.
Unsurprisingly, my personal development style mirrors much of the general web dev public. But what I find most interesting [...]
41 Comments · Posted: July 1st, 2008 · Tags: development, firefox, firebug, javascript, css, programming
Good friend - and fellow Mozillian - Chris Blizzard has just released a long-time "hack in the evenings" project of his: Whoisi. I think the best "one line" description that I've heard for it, thus far is "a wiki-like Friendfeed." It's quite fun - sort of an identity service combined with a wiki combined with [...]
4 Comments · Posted: June 26th, 2008 · Tags: sites, social
Visit: New CSS Features in Firefox 3
David Baron, a Mozilla developer, has a write-up on the new CSS features that are available in Firefox 3. There's a mix of additions - everything from CSS 2.0 and 2.1 features to new additions that are tracking CSS 3.
Some of my favorite additions include:
The CSS 3 Box Specification [...]
13 Comments · Posted: June 25th, 2008 · Tags: firefox, mozilla, css, links
Kind of last moment but I just got word that PPK (the creator of the excellent Quirksmode.org) is in Boston and looking to meet up with local developers. If you're interested we'll be at The Pour House at about 7pm (today, June 25th) and you're welcome! If you're coming please reply to this email or [...]
6 Comments · Posted: June 25th, 2008 · Tags: boston, javascript, meetup
A quick bookmarklet that I made for Asa Dotzler. If you've ever visited a tweet, on Twitter, directly, and had wished to immediately reply to its author you probably found it to be quite convoluted (typically this is the case if you subscribe to services like Summize or Tweetscan. It usually involves copying the username, [...]
6 Comments · Posted: June 24th, 2008 · Tags: twitter, javascript
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