found drama

• Locale::Maketext::TPJ13
  at search.cpan.org — short version: "Thar be dragons here."
  (tagged: programming language linguistics interesting essay )
• What the Heck is Shadow DOM?
  at Dimitri Glazkov
  (tagged: javascript css html5 webdev DOM )
• Lest We Forget (Or How I Learned What’s So Bad About Browser Sniffing)
  on FarukAt.eÅŸ — hot on the heels of the Alex Russell (blasphemy?) essay…
  (tagged: browser webdev browser-sniffing )
• Git Immersion
  A great round of tutorials — "Brought to you by EdgeCase"
  (tagged: git tutorial )
• China Starts Molten Salt Nuclear Reactor Project
  at Slashdot
  (tagged: China nuclear energy )
• Scientists Work To Grow Meat In a Lab
  at Slashdot (stop me if you've heard this one before…)
  (tagged: chickie-nobs future research biology )
• The 9 Most Bad-Ass Communists In ’80s Pop Culture
  at Woot — Cold War nostalgia…
  (tagged: ColdWar )
• Cutting The Interrogation Short
  By Alex Russel at his "Infrequently Noted" blog:

  Feature testing libraries should contain pre-built caches — the kind that come with the library, not the kind that get built on the client — but they should only be consulted for UA versions that you know you know. If we assume that behavior for UA/version combination never changes, we’ve got ourselves a get-out-of-jail free card. Libraries can have O(1) behavior in the common case and in the situations where feature testing would keep you from being busted, you’re still not busted.

  Blasphemy? Or some minority wisdom in the browser performance war-of-attrition trade-off game?

  (tagged: javascript performance feature-detection )

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