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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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Lengthening Out URLs

Blogs - 15 days ago

In our age of information and technology, there isn’t as much mystery as there used to be. In that sense, short URLs (e.g., tinyurl.com/123) can be fun! Who knows where you’ll wind up.
Some folks aren’t as happy with uncertainty in hyperlinking; one of them, Darragh Curran, w read more

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Qooxdoo 0.8.1 and Playground

Blogs - 15 days ago

Following close up on the 0.8 release, the Qooxdoo team wrote in to let us know about their new 0.8.1 release:

It’s a maintenance and bug fix
release, with 250+ bugs fixed, but also some interesting novelties
especially on the tooling and application side.

Amon read more

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Speed Dial Canvas Edition

Blogs - 15 days ago

Christian Effenberger has a Christmas contribution for us, Quickchoice:

Quickchoice is a Speed Dial clone for css transform supporting browsers.
It’s a simple and quick “public domain” implementation of Opera’s Speed Dial.
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Thomas Fuchs comes back with some JavaScript tips

Blogs - 15 days ago

Thomas has been busy working on freckle, but has jumped back onto his blog again to give us some short tips:
Preventing console.log breakage
We have all been there. After a serious Firebug session, you forget to take out the console statements. Or, maybe you like to keep them in for the f read more

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Book review: “Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks” by Wroblewski

Blogs - 15 days ago

Usability and design guru Luke Wroblewski knows that web forms suck. More importantly, he knows why - and how to make them suck less.
For the past few years, the Yahoo! product design exec has been presenting his ongoing research into the humble HTML form at conferences and on his blog, Functi read more

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jQuery 1.3 beta: Sizzling and feature testing

Blogs - 16 days ago

jQuery 1.3 beta 1 has been released with John and the team asking for testing help.
This is a big release as a lot has been changed:

Sizzle has been integrated
No more browser testing: For example, no more if ( jQuery.browser.msie && !jQuery.isXMLDoc(this) ) { which i read more

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Towards Better Reuse: Traits in JavaScript

Blogs - 16 days ago

From way back in 1987 comes a quote that summarizes how many feel about the state of object-oriented programming:

Multiple inheritance is good, but there is no good way to do it.

Joey Hurst wrote in to point us to his pet project--JSTraits--which aims to address this issue in read more

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jQuery Gestures

Blogs - 16 days ago

Adrien Friggeri has taken the music player ui and spent some time to create a really nice gestures library that allows you to add mouse gestures to a web page, supports complex (i.e. sequences of) gestures and provides visual feedback through the use of a canvas element.
Example code looks lik read more

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