A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Zepto is great for handling basic gesture events, but for more complex touch interactions it can be lacking. Flickable allows you to make any element touchable; useful for flicking between sections, or sliding elements around the page. Flickable → Flickable Thumbnail Slider Demo → Looking for a jQuery flickable plugin? Check out jQuery.flickable. Note that …
Continue reading “Flickable — A Zepto Plugin to Enable Touch Gestures on Any HTML Element”
<h1>{{ pagename|title }}</h1> <ul> {% for author in authors %} <li{% if loop.first%} class="first"{% endif %}> {{ author }} </li> {% else %} <li>There are no authors.</li> {% endfor %} </ul> var template = require(‘swig’); var tmpl = template.compileFile(‘/path/to/template.html’); tmpl.render({ pagename: ‘awesome people’, authors: [‘Paul’, ‘Jim’, ‘Jane’] }); A Node.js and Browser-based JavaScript Template Engine …
A simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript // single keys Mousetrap.bind(‘4’, function() { highlight(2); }); Mousetrap.bind(‘x’, function() { highlight(3); }, ‘keyup’); // combinations Mousetrap.bind(‘command+shift+k’, function(e) { highlight([6, 7, 8, 9]); return false; }); Mousetrap.bind([‘command+k’, ‘ctrl+k’], function(e) { highlight([11, 12, 13, 14]); return false; }); // gmail style sequences Mousetrap.bind(‘g i’, function() { highlight(17); …
Packaged apps deliver an experience as capable as a native app, but as safe as a web page. Just like web apps, packaged apps are written in HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS. But packaged apps look and behave like native apps, and they have native-like capabilities that are much more powerful than those available to web …
This talk will demonstrate that, whether its double-equals coercion, iteration without hasOwnProperty, augmenting native prototypes or even fraternizing with the evil eval and with, there is a time and place for virtually every feature of JavaScript and taking the time to study and understand their potential will enrich the programming experience, just as a broader …
For me there was a time that can only be described as adolescence in the field of programming and more specifically JavaScript. This period was characterised by a certain laziness and hubris. I thought I was right. I thought others were wrong. I could see no path but the very strict one that I had …
CasperJS is an open source navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript and based on PhantomJS — the scriptable headless WebKit engine. It eases the process of defining a full navigation scenario and provides useful high-level functions, methods & syntactic sugar for doing common tasks Written on top of the previously mentioned PhantomJS var …
Continue reading “CasperJS: a navigation scripting & testing utility for PhantomJS”