Let's Build the Web We Want
Thanks to Jason Duclos, my presentation from a couple of weeks ago is live. In it I compare standard JavaScript DOM methods to YUI, jQuery, Dojo and Prototype/Scriptaculous. JavaScript Library Showdown from rob larsen on Vimeo. Here’s the deck. Jason is the man for putting this together, by the way.
My presentation went well, I think. It started a little later than I would have liked, and I didn’t have any water (insane? yes.) but overall it was a lot of fun. People seemed interested, which is the important part. The really interesting news is that the presentation was recorded, so I should be able […]
Yesterday I was wondering why obj.getElementsByTagName wasn’t working in Safari/WebKit on a tag with a namespace prefix. I wondered, aloud, whether or not it was just something I was ignorant of. It turns out that was the case. Dom Level 2 added new namespace specific methods to search through documents or document fragments for tags […]
Is It Me or the Browser? I had a Safari bug on a project I’m rushing to get out the door. We’re using a Flickr feed to populate a div with link+thumbnail to some flickr images. In Firefox/Internet Explorer I simply did the following to build the links: flickr : function(obj) { //get the full […]
Although they doubled the number of people let into the club last week, the progress seems painfully slow- at least to me. Sitting on the outside, looking in, it seems like an eternity. Especially since I expected to be well under way at this point. I’m really surprised that they didn’t ramp it up much […]