Dynamically loading JS libraries and detecting when they’re loaded
This is really useful – http://www.ejeliot.com/blog/109 I’ve used it for some of my revised swfobject scripts – loading the latest version of swfobject from the Google AJAX libraries in the event that...
View ArticleAdvanced Debugging with JavaScript
JavaScript debugging is a real pain. Not only do you have the not-infrequent browser discrepancies, but the normal debugging tools aren’t fantastic. With some advanced debugging tools though, you...
View ArticleTutorial Link: jQuery for Absolute Beginners
http://blog.themeforest.net/tutorials/jquery-for-absolute-beginners-video-series/ These look great (apart from the fact that he uses Visual Studio 2008 as his editing environment!). If you prefer...
View ArticleTargeting multiple browsers with CSS… and some Javascript trickery.
There’s a clever little javascript library that allows you to write CSS specifically for Chrome, the iPhone, IE 8, etc. all in a single file. What it does is manipulate the HTML document client-side...
View ArticleLink: Try out jQuery selectors
It doesn’t look like much, but this website is great for illustrating how the selectors in jQuery work. http://codylindley.com/jqueryselectors/
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Link: jQSlickWrap
We’ve known for quite a while that jQuery is brilliantly clever, but holy cow, the code behind this is pretty damn clever. What jQSlickWrap does is automagically work out the shape of the image by...
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Link: The DOM Monster
I’m always on the look out for new yardsticks to measure by code by, and here’s another one that I’ve been introduced to recently. It’s called the DOM Monster, and it’s something that you can drag and...
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Link: Moment.js
Moment.js is a lightweight javascript library for working with dates – manipulating them, parsing them and outputting them into a human-readable format. And it even does languages, too!
View ArticleLink: Which JavaScript drawing framework to use?
I haven’t yet looked into doing good-old-drawing with JavaScript, but this article is really good at summarising the features of (what I assume to be) the ‘Big three’ options. Link:...
View ArticleJavascript Testing with Node.js, Testacular & Jasmine
For the last year or so I’ve been working on large scale (and complicated) Javascript applications, and one of the big deficiencies that exposed was the historically poor support for unit testable,...
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