A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Are you using the developer tools to their full potential? The biggest positive about the developer tools is that they are incredibly easy to use, but as a result developers often miss out on a large proportion of the functionality provided. Inspired by a video talk by Paul Irish and Pavel Feldman, I’ve compiled a …
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CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets you use the same files across many projects. And that’s just the first paragraph. From the creators of Less.app CodeKit → via Andy
jQuery 1.7 has been released. Most important change indefinitely is the introduction of the new .on() and .off() methods. If you’ve been using .bind() and .delegate(), transitioning to these new functions should be no problem. If you’ve been using .live(), which you shouldn’t (also see this test on jsperf), then it’s a great moment to …
At Fronteers ’11, Alex Russel gave a great talk about the Shadow DOM (relevant slides starting from slide 32). Jake Archibald, who also gave an awesome presentation at Fronteers, provides us a nice writeup on the subject, along with a very practical example: This is an <audio> element, or at least its implementation in Google …
A often-used practice in Responsive Web Design is to replace the menu/navigation (<ul>) with a dropdown (<select>) on small devices, this to prevent it from taking up the whole screen. Today, my friend Jochen released a jQuery plugin that does the job for you automagically: jQuery Mobile Select is a jQuery Plugin to replace the …
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Tangle is a JavaScript library for creating reactive documents. Your readers can interactively explore possibilities, play with parameters, and see the document update immediately. Reminds me of something I did for a cooking site a long (long) time ago (site not available anymore), but then better. Tangle →
$.Callbacks provides a way to manage lists of callbacks and it’s actually quite powerful. If we were to define two functions fn1 and fn2 we can then add these functions as callbacks to a $.Callbacks list and invoke them via the fire method. The result of this is that it becomes simple to construct complex …