Friday, June 11th, 2010
Category: Performance
It’s the World Cup again. Being a Brit, I am on tender hooks with the first England game coming up tomorrow with the USA. A family feud for me. We start to see great microsites such as the Twitter @worldcup site, and as we think about what the fastest goal will be… what about the Read the rest…
Category: Node
Tim Caswell has been doing awesome work, and his latest project is Connect, a high performance middleware framework for node.js. Ruby has Rack. Python has WSGI. Java has Servlets. Now, JavaScript has Node/Connect. I was able to set it up in minutes and took the following screencast of a sample application in action: Take a Read the rest...
Sit back and enjoy: The bulk of the code is just: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function run() { ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "source-over"; ctx.fillStyle = "rgba(8,8,12,.65)"; ctx.fillRect( 0 , 0 , canvasW , canvasH ); ctx.globalCompositeOperation = "lighter"; Read the rest...
Thursday, June 10th, 2010
Finally. Don't make me jump to JavaScript to tweak the CSS when I want a relative calculation for a value. The effervescent Paul Rouget shows us the CSS calc() goodness that has a bug going for Mozilla. Some good simple use cases: PLAIN TEXT CSS: /* * Two divs aligned, split up by a Read the rest...
Category: Facebook, Performance
Remember a time when you would make fun of Facebook for having such poor performance? You would see 400 scripts that would be loading, some of which that would have code for no reason. That was in the distant past now. Makinde Adeagbo gave that great talk at JSConf about the copious amount of code Read the rest...
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Jack Prosser has fun proof of concept CSS magnifying glass. He told us a little about it: The main concept works on using CSS3 for the radius, making a round circle view point. This contains an iframe which is the exact same content. Using CSS3 again I scale the content in the iframe so that Read the rest...
What does Open Web mean? What does Ajax mean? Is it AJAX or Ajax? Remember those discussions? We had the arguments ... the purists who would shout and scream if you said something was Ajax and didn't use XHR with async mode + XML as the format. Ajax beat our AJAX and became the new Read the rest...
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010
*thump*. That is the sound of Google Chrome Frame getting a beta tag on it with a new version that comes up to Chrome 5 levels: Instead of adding new bells and whistles, we've fixed more than 200 bugs to make integration with Internet Explorer seamless while improving security, stability, and performance. For example, we’ve Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Testing
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var header_test = new Cohorts.Test({ name: 'big_vs_small_header', sample: 1, // we want to include all visitors in the test cohorts: { big: { onChosen: function() { $('#big').show(); Read the rest...
Monday, June 7th, 2010
Safari 5 got out of the gate a touch early as the PR team shot their new release out before anything else was out there: “Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari now runs on over 200 million Read the rest...
Category: Google
The Google I/O sessions are now live. I/O was a big event this year, and the press liked to focus on the splashy double headed keynotes (day 1: go web!, day 2: go Android :/). The bulk of the real content from Google engineers was very solid indeed, and there are gems for Web developers Read the rest...
Category: iPhone, Mobile
, WebOS
Steve Gill of Nitobi has posted about a PhoneGap application called SnowReports. The application is open source and forkable on GitHub and shows how you can take a mobile Web application and port it between iPhone, Android, and webOS (and PhoneGap itself can even go beyond to other platforms such as Nokia/Blackberry). Steve also put Read the rest...
Category: Tools
I jump between vi, textmate, and IntelliJ when coding. I am a long term IntelliJ IDEA fan (I actually long for IDEA 3 when it peaked for me as a lean editor without millions of plugins) and a lot of people think of it as a Java IDE company. In recent years it has diversified Read the rest...
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Category: Performance
Thomas has a great post today on how he took the lovely Every Time Zone HTML5 app for the iPad and went deep to make it perform smoothly to match its beauty. He has documented what he did: Canvas optimizations over images: Thomas found out that using -webkit-gradient produces images which slow down the rendering Read the rest...
IE6 must die - we all know this. Even Microsoft knows and acknowledges this (the IE9 team would love everybody to upgrade). The problem is that as a technical argument we don't get far. The people who force their users to still use IE6 as the main "browser" don't want to change their environments as Read the rest...
Apple has a new microsite touting HTML5 standards, yet when you hit the site in a browser other than Safari and try to run a sample you get: Erm. Hmm. Faruk has it right: The point isn't that all of the examples should work in all browsers, but that it most of them actually do.... Read the rest...
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
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