Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

HTML5 Video Player | Video.js. Quite an impressive open source implementation of HTML5′s video. It aims for a cross-browser, consistent implementation of a modern video player. It’s fully featured and includes a lightweight Flash fallback (yes, that’s still both applicable and important). Additionally, you can piggyback the CDN-hosted version, or go ahead and do it [...]

scrollorama. Yesterday seems to have been the day of project releases. scrollorama is a neat little piece of work that helps you better utilize “scrolly stuff”. The demo page outlines just a few things you can do when combined with other great things like lettering.js. Scroll-based behavior changes, when used properly (read: responsibly), can really [...]

How do JavaScript closures work? – Stack Overflow. JavaScript is an amazing tool, as evidenced by not only its explosion the past few years, but also the sheer number of highly technical blog articles and posts like these coming out. Closures in JavaScript are often a topic of discussion. It’s often very confusing to those [...]

Sublime Text 2, also known as TextMate 2 in my office, is becoming increasingly useful to me. The only trouble thus far is the lack of community involvement to the extent of TextMate. That’s to be expected, it’s an alpha that went cross platform two seconds ago. All that aside though, it’s an impressive alpha. [...]

isolani – Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs. This article is rightfully making the rounds, it’s really important that you read it. For those not familiar with hash-bangs, it’s the newfangled “solution” (from Google) to create AJAX-crawlable websites. The best real-life example you’ve likely seen is the URL structure of New (is it still considered [...]

JavaScript, JavaScript. In the days of “JavaScript” equating to “jQuery” to so many people, it’s super awesome to see someone continuing to publish more technical JavaScript articles. If you’re not subscribing to JavaScript, JavaScript I highly suggest it. It may not make sense, but we should always mind the fact that jQuery is not the [...]

It’s not a new trend, but it’s something I see more and more with bigger companies who pride themselves on building (upon) standards based, open platforms. Is it becoming increasingly acceptable to build Web applications that require JavaScript?

I’m becoming increasingly comfortable with the idea that at least some form of style guide, whether on a team or individually, is an extremely important part of the process. It helps with everything from readability to quality control and especially helps a team become that much more cohesive.

jQuery Enlightenment by Cody Lindley reinvigorated my enthusiasm for technical references. If you’re at all interested in learning more about jQuery, or you just want an excellent reference on hand, jQuery Enlightenment is it!

Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook is a resource full of recipes focused on the popular Ext JS JavaScript library. While not for those new to Ext JS, it’s a great addition to the library of anyone looking to better their Ext JS skills using this handy reference.