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Of microlibraries and nanolibraries
If you’ve been following along lately, you know that there’s been a plethora of small JavaScript libraries that have been released, particularly by the prolific Dustin Diaz. Previously we’ve seen a proliferation of jQuery plugins, but it seems that the JavaScript world is finally growing up [...]
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I’m on the road to JSConf 2011 – literally! Drove all day yesterday, slept at a rest area (trying to save money), and I’m now sitting comfortably inside a Starbucks here in Portland, commandeering their Wifi.
There’s an awesome speaker lineup and it promises [...]
Modern JavaScript
Modern JavaScript by Rebecca Murphey makes the case that we still have a ways to go in the JavaScript community in terms of dependency management, cross-code communication, and modularity of code, and argues in support of the AMD proposal (Asynchronous Module Definition API). In short, she makes the case that we haven’t found [...]
iOS Viewport Fixes
With the rise of mobile, desktop developers have had to wrestle with new and uncharted territories, particularly in cases where there’s no close resemblance to a familiar feature on desktop browsers. One good example of this is changing screen orientation, which is roughly analogous to a resize event (which by the way [...]
…And we’re back!
Things have come to a frenzied pace here, as I’m helping to plan the upcoming Frontend Engineering Summit here at Yahoo! This is an internal conference with an awesome array of talks, but even if you’re not at Yahoo!, if you’re in the Bay area on March 28-29, we’d love to see [...]
Better late than never
It’s been another one of those weeks… but in any case, here’s some links to keep you busy! Here’s the things I want to highlight for this week:
Android 3.0 implements the HTML Media Capture spec, part of the W3C Device APIs and Policy Working Group
dust is a crazy fast templating library
Video: [...]
Zakas’s delayed script execution proposal
Nicholas Zakas has revised his proposal for a deferred JavaScript execution attribute. Previously his proposal called for a noexecute attribute, but this has been revised to be a preload attribute.
His proposal is motivated by the lack of any built-in attributes that allow this same behavior. The defer attribute simply [...]
isotope
isotope is a jQuery plugin to create some pretty crazy dynamic layouts. If you resize any of the pages in the demo, you can view the page elements not only rearrange, but do so with smooth transition animations.
Isotope has various filtering and sorting functions for rearranging all the components on the page, including the [...]
The performance of feature detection
Alex Russell from the Google Chrome team has ignited a debate about the performance cost of JavaScript feature detection, a very popular technique used in everything from Modernizr and has.js to YUI3, which loads JavaScript polyfills when needed (for instance, loading JSON in browsers with no native JSON support).
Alex’s first post [...]
Introduction
This week has been too busy, so the news will be a bit different. This week we’ll just have a bit of a link dump. I mean that in the nicest, most positive way possible.
Main stories
(Obfuscated JavaScript) JavaScript ( (__ = !$ + $)[+$] + ({} + $)[_/_] +({} + $)[_/_] )
IndexedDB Status [...]
