Posts tagged: javascript
- The HTML5 video progress event: Redux
- In my first post on HTML5 video and its progress event, I wrote: Only Firefox provides a means to calculate the amount of the video that has been loaded. The progress event object includes total and loaded properties that reflect the total size of the video file, and the amount the browser has retrieved from [...] [6 Jul 2010]
- The HTML5 video progress event
- UPDATE: Thanks to zcorpan’s comments, I have posted a follow-up entry that should clarify the current status of the video element and its properties. I have been playing around with the HTML5 video interface lately, trying to understand what can be done with it, and how each browser supports its features as set forth in [...] [5 Jul 2010]
- Increment and decrement, prefix and postfix
- I created this example of the increment (++) and decrement (–) operators in action because I needed to see how they work in combination. I tested this example in Firefox, Safari, and later versions of Internet Explorer, but it probably works in Opera and Chrome as well. [18 Jun 2010]
- Yes, you really do need to learn JavaScript
- From Ed Finkler‘s PHP Advent 2009 piece, You Really Need to Learn JavaScript: When I say “you need to learn JavaScript,” I don’t mean “learn how to copy and paste an example,” or “learn how to generate JavaScript with PHP.” I mean learn it as well as you already know PHP — or better. Why? Because JavaScript [...] [3 Dec 2009]
- “Sitewide Search On A Shoe String” — now with pages!
- Building on the work of Christian Heilmann,* and his SITESEARCH 1.0, I present a modified version of his site search script that supports paginated results. View a working example Download the JavaScript What do you have to do differently to make this work? The good news is not much . The major difference is the [...] [20 Feb 2009]
- JavaScript in Firefox 3.1 will be wicked fast
- John Resig of jQuery fame, has a post about a huge performance boost coming to Firefox 3.1: TraceMonkey. TraceMonkey, Resig explains, uses a computing technique known as trace trees (PDF) which adds just-in-time native code compilation to SpiderMonkey, Firefox’s current rendering engine. What does this mean? As Resig explains: It means that JavaScript is no [...] [24 Aug 2008]
- Sniffing users’ browser history and Firefox extensions to stop it
- Go read Niall Kennedy’s post about using JavaScript to sniff a user’s browser history. It’s an inventive use of your user’s browser history, though I suspect it could potentially be used — in combination with cookies and logins — to detect which of your users are also regular porn surfers. With that little bit of [...] [8 Feb 2008]
- JavaScript Holy War: What’s your favorite framework or toolkit?
- Digital Web has two articles that are related to this post. Check out Excerpt: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs and Libraries and jQuery Crash Course As the number of web-based applications grow, so do the number JavaScript frameworks and toolkits with the goal of making cross-browser development an easier process. But which to choose? [...] [4 Oct 2007]