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5 Reasons to Use jQuery UI (and 3 Reasons to Avoid It)
Yesterday, the jQuery team released their jQuery UI library which brings much needed UI components to an already stellar AJAX framework. Many developers love jQuery because of it’s simplicity and...
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Some things that have been spinning around in my head that don’t deserve a whole post… There was a good post on Ajaxian on the subject of unobtrusive javascript. It points to an outstanding article...
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Finally, an Acid Test That Matters!
The first Acid test was essentially to test browser compatibility for the box model. The Acid2 (try it out in the browser you’re on, Safari3 passes btw) test focused on HTML/CSS for static content....
View ArticleQuirky mousemove Event Firing
PPK, of quriksmode.org fame, has been busy updating his events compatibility table and has uncovered some interesting bugs in the mousemove event. When doing my new mousemove test I found a bug in...
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Report: First Javascript SF Meetup
I had the pleasure of attending the first Javascript SF meetup at the Hi5 offices a couple days ago. It was a rather large turn out with some great demos. The main themes of the night were Canvas and...
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Dissecting ShareThis Widget (BAD) Javascript Code
I just installed the ShareThis button on this blog so I cracked open the javascript payload. You can view it here. In short, it’s horrific! It pains me to see this because this is a widget which means...
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V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish, IE8 BenchMarks
After reading about the new JavaScript VM in Google Chrome (called V8) I was wondering how it would stack up against the new JS engines from Mozilla (TraceMonkey) and WebKit (SquirrelFish). I ran 3...
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SquirrelFish Extreme – Quick Benchmarks
The recent javascript vm wars harken back to the video card wars of the early 2000′s where 3dfx, ATI, and NVIDIA where trading blows. Instead of we have Google, WebKit, and Mozilla trading blows by...
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Smush It – Easy Image Optimization
Just came across the ajaxian post about smushit.com which was presented at The Ajax Experience by Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan. It’s a nifty tool that optimizes images on any web page you pass...
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iPhone 3.0 now with SquirrelFish Extreme?
I saw a post on Ajaxian about how iPhone 3.0 might now include SquirrelFish Extreme so I did a quick and dirty using this. Here’s are the results (raw spreadsheet here). iPhone 3.0 definitely has...
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