“These are the things that people are saying are too slow to do with open web technologies today, and we want to have benchmarks that reflect progress against making these near-future apps universally available.†– Rob Sayre, “Release The Krakenâ…
My experience of dConstruct 2010 at abitgone+ (via DF) (tagged: essay design dev todo ) JavaScript Query Engines at DHTML Kitchen—if you can get past the implied "frameworks/libraries are always bad and you're an idiot for using them" attitude, there is some interesting discussion in there about JavaScript-based DOM querying engines. (tagged: css javascript css3 […]
SyntaxHighlighter JavaScript-based syntax highlighter with support for multiple languages. It backs several syntax highlighter plugins for WordPress (several of which I've tried, and one of which is currently used here on blog.F_D; none of which seem to use the latest). Seems the CSS highlighter needs a little help. (tagged: blog code wordpress plugin syntaxhighlighter todo […]
Climb On! by Lisa Katayama, at Boing Boing — Absolutely awesome article. I agree with every word. (Except about the Rubik's cube; I kind of hate the Rubik's cube.) Climbing feels like playing Tetris with my body. (tagged: climbing exercise mental geek ) HTML5 Elements and Attributes (tagged: html5 webdev documentation ) Efficient JavaScript at […]
UglifyJS at GitHub (via Badass JavaScript) — a new minifier/mangler/compressor utility running in Node.js. (tagged: code javascript compression Node.js minify ) A JavaScript implementation of the Content Aware Image Resizing algorithm at Badass JavaScript — this seems to keep coming up… (tagged: canvas html5 javascript image todo ) When does JavaScript trigger reflows and rendering? […]
An implausibly illustrated introduction to HTML5 Web Workers (tagged: javascript workers html5 webdev ) A Man, A Plan And A Sharpie: ‘The Great Typo Hunt’ at NPR (tagged: writing awesome english funny grammar npr ) The Self-Publishing Novelist: Report from the Trenches at SXSW 2011 PanelPicker (tagged: writing publishing sxsw ) 10 web revolutionaries at […]
A couple of quick ones:
// Date -> Number:
var d = +(new Date());
// 1281743590756
typeof d;
// number
// almost anything -> String
d += “”;
// “1281743590756”
typeof d;
// string
// anything -> Boolean
d = !!d;
// true
typeof d;
// boolean
What are…
Following up on the Google JavaScript Style Guide that made the rounds recently: I did a couple of passes through the document and absorbed as much of it as I could 1. After discussing the style guide with a few peers, I thought that it might make sense to provide some annotations–in part for personal […]
40 billionaires pledge to donate half their wealth at msnbc.com — Let's check back in annually, shall we? (tagged: blog business news politics society charity ) My Biggest Fear as a Developer… at Beautiful Interfaces (via @rmurphey) (tagged: design ui ux ) HTML5 Fuzzies Zeldman on "HTML5": To encourage what should be encouraged, yet not […]
Perfection kills » How ECMAScript 5 still does not allow to subclass an array at Perfection kills (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: article javascript arrays todo ) HTML5: Changing the browser-URL without refreshing page at Spoiled Milk ApS (via Bad Ass JavaScript) (tagged: HTML5 pushState javascript navigation url ) Diffable (tagged: javascript diff ajax performance […]