Something that's frequently befuddled is the differentiation between where JavaScript is executing and where performance hits are taking place. The difficulty...
1 replies - 2074 views - 02/28/08 by John Resig in News
The development of ECMAScript 4 is moving into an important phase: the implementors are making good on their word and are starting to implement the ECMAScript...
0 replies - 937 views - 02/27/08 by John Resig in News
At a fundamental level it's important to understand how JavaScript timers work. Often times they behave unintuitively because of the single thread which they...
4 replies - 5410 views - 02/24/08 by John Resig in News
After my earlier post on analyzing JavaScript timer performance a lot has changed, especially in Firefox 3. An excellent patch landed the other day which is...
0 replies - 1844 views - 02/21/08 by John Resig in News
When doing DOM-based performance testing you frequently need to pick a sample HTML document to work against. This raises the question: What is a good,...
0 replies - 3944 views - 02/20/08 by John Resig in News
A great blog post, for me, was one written by PPK back about two years about in which he explained how the contains() and compareDocumentPosition() methods...
0 replies - 3034 views - 02/19/08 by John Resig in News
A couple weeks ago Aptana released "Jaxer: The Ajax Server" as with most new products (I am a technology junky) I was interested to find things I...
0 replies - 4305 views - 02/15/08 by Robert Buffone in Articles
NeuroKernel is a High Performance, Vastly Scalable,
Embeddable, Internet-Centric Client/Server Computing Platform with a
Breakthrough Adaptive Runtime...
8 replies - 2634 views - 02/11/08 by Bora Ertung in Announcements
A fascinating thing has happened in the world of JavaScript DOM traversal: Over the course of a couple months in 2007 three of the major JavaScript libraries...
2 replies - 2745 views - 02/11/08 by John Resig in News
Picking your javascript framework is a difficult decision. There are many considerations that need to be made when choosing which javascript framework is best...
5 replies - 3184 views - 02/09/08 by David Walsh in News
The Google Caja team has put forward a fantastic document on JavaScript-based injection attacks. This is a fascinating subject and one that receives little...
0 replies - 3353 views - 02/01/08 by John Resig in News
Creating a paragraph with expandable text can be quite useful if you have a lot of text on your page but do not want all of it to show in the same time....
0 replies - 2508 views - 02/01/08 by Boyan Kostadinov in News
It's amazing to see how Ext has evolved from simply an UI add-on to Yahoo's UI JavaScript library to a full-fledged framework which is now offering training...
2 replies - 796 views - 01/28/08 by Rey Bango in News
Paoli Severini from Microsoft's Global Product Development Team has released a tool called JSLeaks Detector which facilitates finding memory leaks in Internet...
1 replies - 4706 views - 01/25/08 by Aaron Conran in News
Grids are a fundamental concept to design that transcend trends. Long after the shiny, sans-serify, reflective shadows of web 2.0 are gone, grids will still be...
0 replies - 2586 views - 01/18/08 by Chris Coyier in News
