Posts tagged: javascript
- 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 drives rich [...] [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 form and added [...] [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 longer confined [...] [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 fearmongering out [...] [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? Well, [...] [4 Oct 2007]