Category: JavaScript

When your JavaScript codebase consists of a couple of functions to do image rollover and form validation, then javascript seems like an extremely easy language.  It has relatively little bureaucracy for getting simple things done, an extremely useful literal notation for ...Read More

When Apple released iOS 4.3 there was much talk of the improved Javascript performance due to the new 'Nitro' engine, however, it was soon discovered that Web Apps that were saved to the home screen and launched from there did not ...Read More

I recently read Farhad Manjoo’s polemic on slate explaining that using two spaces after a full stop is flat out wrong. Of course things are never that simple and Manifest Destiny has an ...Read More

Here's a little trick that I use to generate seed values for some of our mock components to ensure these values are fairly realistic. Google has a web service that when queried returns a JSON string for calculated ...Read More

This is part II to Ressurecting the Jigosaurus written by Andrew Trevorah.The original Jigosaurus contained a single playable image which was cut to puzzle pieces saved on the web server as distinct files. Obviously it wasn’t very exciting to play ...Read More

Performance is a key aspect in native-web Single Dealer Platforms, since browser robustness is widely satisfactory in modern browsers. Low latency browser-based trading has been massively accelerated by the latest releases of Chrome and Firefox. Now that performance ...Read More

WebSocket consists of a simple Javascript API and a protocol definition. It is fairly simple in concept and the Javascript API makes it very easy to use within any web page. There is lots of talk about compatibility, ...Read More

RT @detyro: Time to get Emotional about your markup: http://bit.ly/9FEYBg the W3C release Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 #RT @ian_alderson:RT @bymathias: jScrollPane http://bit.ly/dxiVPK #jquery plugin-allows ...Read More

Google's JavaScript styleguide = good: http://bit.ly/b3zGrp #Software Craftsmanship 2010 is now open for registration http://bit.ly/du6Pqu #sc2010 #RT @sarahlawfull: 10 Most Common Misconceptions About User Experience Design ...Read More

RT @ajaxian: Strobe; A hot new HTML5-touch startup founded by Charles Jolley: http://bit.ly/blCsau #RT @cometdaily: Reminder, London Comet panel is tonight http://www.meetup.com/londonajax/calendar/13682478/ @london_ajax #Platformability's latest ...Read More