Ever since I saw the Bit.ly JavaScript API I’ve been wanting to build a simple script for tracking the number of people visiting a blog post from Twitter. This past weekend I built a little script for doing just that – and in a completely unobtrusive manner. The script itself is completely standalone (no dependencies) [...]
44 Comments · Posted: July 9th, 2009
One of the biggest wins of the HTML 5 recommendation is a detailed specification outlining how parsing of HTML documents should work. For too many years browsers have simply tried to guess and copy what others were doing in hopes that their parser would work well enough to not cause too many problems with HTML [...]
13 Comments · Posted: July 7th, 2009
I’m in the process of working on, and improving, test suite support in TestSwarm (an upcoming project of mine). However, there isn’t a lot of information on which unit testing frameworks developers actually use to test their code (whereas there is more information on which JavaScript libraries are used). It will be of great help [...]
33 Comments · Posted: July 2nd, 2009
The video from my talk at JSConf has been posted. Thanks to Chris for organizing the conference and the excellent quality of the video. The description from the JSConf site summarizes the talk well: John Resig presents his mystery topic, which is actually three topics that strike his interest. First up is measuring performance and [...]
5 Comments · Posted: June 30th, 2009
I just posted a run down of some of the new DOM Traversal APIs in Firefox 3.5. The first half of the post is mostly a recap of my old Element Traversal API post. The second half of the post is all about the new NodeIterator API that was just implemented. For those that are [...]
54 Comments · Posted: June 19th, 2009
Previously I analyzed ECMAScript 5′s Object and Property system. This is a huge new aspect of the language and deserved its special consideration. There are a number of other new features and APIs that need attention, as well. The largest of which are Strict Mode and native JSON support. Strict Mode Strict Mode is a [...]
62 Comments · Posted: May 21st, 2009
ECMAScript 5 is on its way. Rising from the ashes of ECMAScript 4, which got scaled way back and became ECMAScript 3.1, which was then re-named ECMAScript 5 (more details)- comes a new layer of functionality built on top of our lovable ECMAScript 3. Update: I’ve posted more details on ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, [...]
40 Comments · Posted: May 21st, 2009
One of my favorite sources of active mining is that of Peter-Paul Koch digging in to mobile browsers and how they behave. Sponsored by Vodaphone to do a study of various mobile devices and their respective browsers, PPK has been doing some serious analysis of what the landscape looks like. Armed with a battery of [...]
10 Comments · Posted: May 19th, 2009
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