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New Years Resolution: File a browser bug?

Blogs - 8 days ago

John Resig has laid out his thoughts on a Web Developer’s Responsibility, and it comes down to working with various up and coming browser versions and filing bugs:

It’s safe to say that the biggest tax on a web developer is spending so much time dealing with browser bugs and read more

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Eeking out performance in script loading

Blogs - 8 days ago

Steve Souders has detailed the coupling of script loading with various asynchronous techniques with examples that show the timings that you can get. First he sets the scene:

One issue with async script loading is dealing with inline scripts that use symbols defined in the external script read more

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tyPhoGraphic: Declarative CSS Transformations

Blogs - 9 days ago

The demo above is tyPhoGraphic a declarative CSS transformation library.
If you check out a demo with a browser that supports the CSS declarations, you can see that the work is done via:
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<div effect="zoomin" du read more

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mod_v8: Another Server Side JavaScript

Blogs - 9 days ago

Paul Querna wrote a fun little Apache module called mod_v8 that offers a proof of concept of Yet Another Server Side JavaScript:

After using Rhino for server side javascript at work, I can say I somewhat like server side javascript.  Others like Steve were already convinced a long t read more

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Kaazing Gateway 8.12 Battlestar Available

Blogs - 9 days ago

Kaazing keeps on moving with its Java Comet server, and just released a new version. It will be interesting to see if real-time connections take off in 2009.

Kaazing is happy to announce the second major release of its Kaazing Gateway, an open source HTML 5 web server, which includes sup read more

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A Christmas Wish: “I promise not to use document.write()” mode

Blogs - 13 days ago

While dosing off last night a few conversations stirred up in my semi-consciousness. They were of work arounds and layout issues. Too many were “We have to do this in case a script does a document.write somewhere in the future.”
It’s hard to tell of course. You may include a read more

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Mouse-based Ubiquity: A Prototype and a Failure

Blogs - 13 days ago

We’ve been watching over the last little while as the Humanized crew has leveraged their experience with Enso to create Ubiquity, an in-development command-line interface for the browser. But what about folks who aren’t as enamored with their keyboard as they are with their mouse?
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Playing with a fuzzy monkey; Helping JITs improve

Blogs - 14 days ago

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for (var i = 0; i <0x02000000; ++i) {


  d = 0x55555555;


  d++; d++; d++; d++; d++;


}


 




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Giving developers and users responsiveness data

Blogs - 14 days ago

I posted on my personal blog about using the crowd to tell us about browser responsiveness in which I discussed giving developers information about browser responsiveness and how add-ons can affect it:

I have had some folks talk to me about responsiveness issues with Firefox 3. I have ha read more

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UA Profiler Improves

Blogs - 14 days ago

Steve Souders has updated his UA Profiler tool that tracks the performance traits of various browsers. Being able to drill down and see the differences from build to build is great stuff, and here are all the new features:

drilldown

Previously, I had one label for a browser. F read more

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