Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
Tuesday Morning Roundup
Category: JavaScript, Prototype
, RichTextWidget
, Ruby
, Scriptaculous
, Tip
, WebKit
- Lesserwiki - a very light Ruby on Rails wiki very similiar to TiddlyWiki, with all updates done continuously on one page, double click to edit, etc.
- Article on Writing Custom Iterators for Prototype from Encytemedia
- A Prototype solution to the DOM Ready issue (see Dean's post for background info)
- Javascript object < -> Rails object marshalling capability has been integrated into Protowidget - demo here, detailed explanation here - looks cool and could also function on its own.
- An Ajax-ready slide transition library (demo) based on the popular Prototype/scriptaculous combo.
- Reducing the perceived responsiveness of your app with the "W AJAX" design pattern - using background threads on the server to load complex data while the browser continues to load the easy stuff.
- Safari hates trailing commas like this:
JAVASCRIPT:
-
new Effect.Highlight('foo', {duration:0.5,startcolor:'#ff99ff',});
while FF and IE don't care. Bruce Williams has a quick and dirty Ruby test case to find offending scripts so you can catch it early in your build.
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Sifl n Olly's Chester on his love skills. (mp3, probably NSFW)
updated: made title less stupid
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3.7 rating from 21 votes
Not only does Safari hate trailing commas, IE 6 hates them too.
So does Opera 9.
So do I.
And Firefox gives a warning:
trailing comma is not legal in ECMA-262 object initializers
foo = {“a”: 1,}
This mistake can conduct you to hour of bug searching :) So beware !
In IE array can be done like this too :
var foo = [ 1, 2, 3, 4, ];
But you’ll get a 5th elements with null value.