a place for thoughts and musings on javascript and the document object model.
Standalone selector 4 days ago Original link 
John Resig is a machine. Not content with dividing his time between working on jQuery and working on Firebug, he’s also got another few irons in the fire.
Just for kicks, John has created a standal...
The need for speed 86 days ago Original link
Another day, another incremental release of jQuery. This one is sporting 13% faster CSS selectors and 103% faster event handlers.
Meanwhile, as the Javascript libraries continue to evolve and impro...
Radio on the TV 110 days ago Original link
I was in the illustrious surroundings of Rissington last week to deliver a DOM scripting workshop. My good friend Ann was in attendance. During the latter part of the workshop — which was deliberat...
Comprehension 164 days ago Original link
Don’t tell Paul but I sometimes listen to the Boagworld podcast. I’m sharing this dark secret with you because recently the podcast featured a good interview with Christian Heilmann.
Christian talk...
ABBRacadabra 214 days ago Original link
In Chapter 8 of the DOM scripting book I’ve got a little script that looks through the contents of an HTML document, finds any instances of the abbr element and then constructs a definition list wi...
Bulletproof Ajax workshop in Brighton 232 days ago Original link
My first public appearance in 2008 is coming up in two weeks. I’ll be spending a day delivering a Bulletproof Ajax workshop. In case you couldn’t tell from the title, it’s based on the book of the ...
@media Ajax, day 2 283 days ago Original link
The second day of @media Ajax certainly kicked things up a notch. While day one covered a lot of the day-to-day questions of Javascript that I could relate to, day two was a trip to the future.
The...
@media Ajax, day 1 284 days ago Original link
Day one of @media Ajax has just wrapped up in a very wet and rainy London.
The show opened with a State of Ajax address by the guys from Ajaxian in which they gave their perspective on where Ajax a...
Questioning Ajax 286 days ago Original link
@media Ajax is about to kick off in London. I’ll be there but I won’t be giving a presentation—I’ll leave that to the experts. Instead, I’ll be moderating the closing panel. The line-up hasn’t been...
Spry redux 288 days ago Original link
About a year ago, I wrote about my disappointment with Spry. Spry is yet another Javascript library, this time from Adobe. My beef was with the way that Spry required proprietary markup and then cl...
