Why JavaScript's "new" Keyword Sucks
A critique of JavaScript's 'new' keyword, exploring its confusing behavior and edge cases through code examples.
A critique of JavaScript's 'new' keyword, exploring its confusing behavior and edge cases through code examples.
A technique to preload JS and CSS files as print stylesheets to improve page load times, with a warning about Chrome compatibility issues.
A review of Douglas Crockford's book 'JavaScript: The Good Parts' and how it changed the author's perspective on the language.
A game developer introduces the new year's theme '100 Things' for the Experimental Gameplay Project, focusing on creative constraints.
A JavaScript developer proposes a shorter, regex-based function for reading browser cookies, criticizing verbose mainstream solutions.
Introducing consul.js, a JavaScript logging abstraction that wraps console functions for easier debugging and cross-browser compatibility.
Argues against including jQuery in Django's admin interface to keep contribution accessible and avoid endorsing a single JavaScript toolkit.
An experimental JavaScript approach to creating elastic textareas that auto-adjust height without hidden divs, discussing browser compatibility.
Explores a JavaScript technique called 'simplethreading' for handling large data sets asynchronously by batching operations to improve performance.
A developer details building a custom, high-performance friend selector UI component for social apps, inspired by Facebook's design.
Extending jQuery with John Resig's micro-templating function for cleaner, nestable JavaScript templates.
A technical article discussing a JavaScript method to dynamically load and manage CSS dependencies in large web applications.
A historical look at JavaScript string manipulation, comparing the performance of split/join versus replace() for find-and-replace operations.
A fun web tool that generates Bing search links for easily answerable questions, inspired by LetMeGoogleThatForYou.
A guide to implementing on-the-fly JavaScript minification in Apache Cocoon using the JSMin library.
Discusses password masking usability issues and proposes a JavaScript solution with a checkbox to toggle visibility, addressing browser compatibility.
A participant's experience at Tokyo BarCamp 2009, covering discussions on mobile browsers, natural language parsing, and the hacker space movement.
A review of the book 'Learning Ext JS', covering its effectiveness for quickly learning the JavaScript framework for building rich web applications.
An updated JavaScript library for creating cross-browser, imageless linear gradients with multiple colors and transparency support.
A review of 'Object-Oriented Javascript' by Stoyan Stefanov, covering its content, target audience, and overall recommendation for developers.