Topic: JavaScript
April 9, 2010, 9:04 pm
There must be 80 million tutorials for turning unordered lists into pretty navigation using CSS. This is not #80,000,001. Here, I focus on one detail that often gets overlooked: how to give the user the perception that her click had an immediate effect. In this post, I borrow a little inspiration from Apple.com and show you how to give your site fast nav.
April 7, 2010, 1:37 pm
I’ve started reading Dmitry Soshnikov’s excellent series, ECMA-262-3 in detail. I’m only on chapter 2 and I’ve already learned a thing or two. I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to know JavaScript at a deep level.
November 22, 2009, 11:22 am
There’s plenty of help out there for adding a legend to a Google Map. There are resources for working with MarkerManager as well. I can’t believe this is new ground, but there didn’t seem to be anything related to getting an interactive legend to play nice with MarkerManager. Now there is!
July 19, 2009, 7:19 pm
With apologies to David Letterman’s Stupid Human Tricks segment, I presented a session at Barcamp Auckland (BCA3) on some WebKit-specific features you can leverage in web applications for iPhone, Android, and the Palm Pre. This is my synopsis, plus a bonus trick I didn’t present at the (un)conference!
May 29, 2009, 6:18 pm
Recently, Rebecca Murphey asked on Twitter why she was seeing choppy animation of CSS transitions in her iPhone web application. Initially, I had the same experience, but through some experimentation came to find the smoothness I craved.
April 12, 2009, 5:51 am
Yeah, I got p0wnd by the Mikeyy Worm on Twitter. It’s a simple JavaScript injection attack. You get it by visiting an infected person’s profile with JavaScript turned on in your web browser. Here’s how to stop the madness.
March 14, 2009, 3:14 pm
Recently, on Dashboard-Dev, Aaron Vizzini asked how to integrate Growl notifications into Dashboard widgets. I just did this in Hurler and tr.im.it, so I am happy to document the process here.
January 14, 2009, 2:14 pm
The jQuery team has outdone themselves in many ways with version 1.3 of the world’s best JavaScript library. But are they leaving real-world web development behind?
September 11, 2008, 11:09 pm
I just got an interesting result comparing Google Chrome to the latest WebKit nightly build. WebKit was nearly twice as fast as Chrome at completing the little suite of JavaScript unit tests I keep here at work. Is V8—Chrome’s much-touted JavaScript engine—neither all that nor a bag of chips?
September 6, 2008, 11:11 pm
In the 3 days since I first published Simple Templates, I have released 1 bug fix and 1 minor upgrade. It’s a much better plugin than it was a couple of days ago. I guess this is why they say “Release early. Release often.”
September 3, 2008, 9:03 pm
Overall, I love jQuery. One thing I have missed from my Prototype days was simple, built-in templating. Introducing jQuery Simple Templates.
August 27, 2008, 1:11 pm
A long time ago, in a country far, far away, I wrote a blog post where I called skEdit The (Mostly) Perfect Text Editor. Coda, while itself not perfect, is even better.
August 26, 2008, 8:26 pm
In these troubled times, it can be hard to know whom to trust. In looking for a numerical sort function, the first two articles I found both recommended the same syntax. Both of them were wrong.
May 13, 2008, 3:45 pm
I’m not big on series of blog posts. Others have done it successfully, but personally I’ve promised this kind of thing before and not delivered. So, I’m not making any promises that this series will get past Part 0, but please know I have the best of intentions. If all goes as hoped, over the next however-many posts I will provide a few useful JavaScript code snippets that Dashboard widget authors can take and easily adapt to their own needs. This is based on my experience authoring nearly 20 widgets over the last 3 years. As you can imagine, some patterns have emerged. In this pre-series post, I will discuss a couple of concepts important to understanding my examples (you know, if I get around to posting them): namespacing and the module pattern.
April 19, 2008, 11:11 pm
Having tested the relative speed of innerHTML versus DOM node replacement myself, I read with interest When innerHTML isn’t Fast Enough. I have put together a test of my previous 2 techniques plus one inspired by that article.
February 28, 2008, 11:11 pm
It’s summer down under and I’ve spent the last 2 weeks on a self-styled “working holiday,” freelancing doing some fun work with Radiant CMS and rediscovering the beauty of JavaScript prototypes. I’ve also managed to relax a bit, going to the beach and swimming with my beautiful daughters. Not a bad way to spend some time off work.
February 12, 2008, 2:12 pm
No, I’m not talking about drug smuggling. I’m talking about the inconsistencies in how The Big 3 web browsers deal with window.location.hash.
July 3, 2007, 9:21 pm
At work, I’ve been tackling some fairly sophisticated JavaScript DOM manipulation scenarios. As such, I’ve started to run up against the limitations of my long-used technique of stuffing loads of HTML as a string into some element’s innerHTML property. Specifically, when inserting very long strings containing complex HTML, there can be a troublesome delay between when JavaScript thinks it’s done inserting the elements and when the elements are actually available for further manipulation.
June 10, 2007, 6:10 am
I’ve started working on version 1.0 of my PHP function reference widget for Mac OS X Dashboard. At work, we cover a lot of our code with unit, functional, and Selenium tests. I decided to drink the juice and do the same in the context of widget development.
February 9, 2007, 7:07 am
Not that anyone but me really cares.
