I almost fell victim to this over the weekend, so thought I’d share a common JavaScript gotcha.
[Via NCZOnline]
Category Archives: javascript
ECMAScript 4 (ES4)
I’m probably reading the wrong blogs, but it seems that ECMAScript 4 doesn’t get too much coverage. I mostly do simple stuff with ECMAScript, such as making testcases for XMLHttpRequest, but an update to the Web’s programming language certainly does excite me.
[Via Anne Van Kesteren]
Fast JavaScript Max/Min
I’ve been saving this technique for a while now – it’s simple, but it’s good. What’s the fastest way to find the largest, or smallest, number in an array?
[Via John Resig]
Monitoring element size and position with the YUI
One of the lesser known gems of the Yahoo User Interface library is the Region utility which is part of the Dom utility. The documentation only mentions it and what it gives you but doesn’t quite live up to how powerful it can be in day to day interface development.
[Via Wait till I come]
JavaScript interaction must be input device independent
Time for a bit of what in my opinion is Accessibility 101: input device independency. For some reason it is common to see otherwise nice uses of JavaScript made inaccessible by developers forgetting that not everybody uses a mouse (or some other pointing device).
[Via 456 BereaST]
DHTML JavaScript Benchmark (DOM and innerHTML)
Benchmark – W3C DOM vs. innerHTML
This is a test page intended to find out which method of generating large amounts of content is fastest in the browsers. Of course the results differ significantly from browser to browser.
[Via Quirksmode]
Guild of Front-End Programmers – Part 1
Last Monday I invited all Dutch front-end programmers to become members of my soon-to-be-founded Guild of Front-End programmers. I also promised to publish some more information in English.
[Via Quirksmode]