11.06.09 - 11:29am
If you were able to say: “Fuck IE6″ (at least being able to say: “it will work, but will be old school.” Do you think we live in a world now where the browsers have “enough” features? That is to say - the javascript engines are fast enough to simulate features of other […]
08.13.09 - 11:41am
At Motionbox, we use a RFC 3339 time format in some data we return. Javascript doesn't natively handle this format with Date.parse. The only other blog post I've seen on the subject is this:
http://dansnetwork.com/2008/11/01/javascript-iso8601rfc3339-date-parser/
However, since that's a regular expression that's parsing on the string, it can sometimes be slower (but not toooo bad... [...]
03.15.09 - 10:50pm
I just put the Motionbox Advanced Model Observer Observer (Mamoo) up on Github. It's a light-weight (13k), but fairly powerful framework for javascript built on top of Prototype and the Motionbox EventHandler.
It's fairly well documented and has a full suite of specs written in ScrewUnit.
Mamoo let's you stop thinking about the "glue code" you need [...]
12.02.08 - 11:34am
http://www.sixapart.com/pownce/pro.html
People are saying this was a twitter rival. I think their product
could have been great with a slight twist on marketing - making it for
"small group file and links sharing" rather than micro-blogging...
they already had the features - but didn't push it in that direction.
10.31.08 - 12:38pm
The Motionbox EventHandler ( http://github.com/tobowers/motionbox-eventhandler/tree/master ) now supports focus and blur bubbling. Based on this technique. Internet Explorer is supported too (behind the scenes it uses focusin and focusout, but you don't need to know that).
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HTML:
<form id="formy" action="#">
<input id="inputy1" name="inputy1" class="input_field" />
<input id="inputy2" name="inputy2" class="input_field" />
</form>
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JavaScript:
// This now [...]
10.15.08 - 02:48pm
Yahoo recently did some research on OpenID. The results were pretty poor, but I'm not surprised.
I think the big problem with OpenID right now is that we're all thinking about it like geeks. The main benefit to the user is that he/she doesn't have to sign up for yet another account - or give [...]
07.29.08 - 09:27pm
I've been working on some additions to the Motionbox EventHandler. It hasn't moved to master yet, but you can check out the defer_functions branch.
The two major additions are:
The ability to subscribe to Objects (rather than just css rules)
The ability to defer firing of functions (using a setTimeout)
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JavaScript:
var someObj = {
foo: 'bar'
};
MBX.EventHandler.subscribe(someObj, "customFunc", [...]
07.22.08 - 10:42pm
I'll try to blog more about screw-unit javascript testing (since it's awesome!). However, I just wanted to alert everybody about my fork at github, which will let you mock out various things in your tests.
Let me know what you think.
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JavaScript:
//
// DOM mocking
//
TH.insertDomMock('some_mock'); // which will insert the file dom_mocks/some_mock.html into a div
//
//
// Object [...]
07.16.08 - 09:48am
http://theclevermonkey.blogspot.com/2008/07/browser-wars-ii-end-of-ajax-is-here.html
As Waldek Mastykarz said in his blog Innovation Matters, "What concerns me is the fact, that it will be supported in IE8 only." You got it; Microsoft has drawn first blood in what will be the next browser war. As Microsoft introduces new features the Firefox team [...]
I think we're all a little more mature [...]
07.01.08 - 09:34am
http://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore/wikis/sproutcore-s-modern-model-layer
http://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore/wikis/sproutcore-s-modern-model-layer-part-2
http://github.com/sproutit/sproutcore/wikis/sproutcore-s-modern-model-layer-part-3
Those links (if you haven't checked 'em out) provide some nice insight into how the SproutCore team is thinking about javascript models. It's an interesting pattern of separation.
Basically:
In a model you use MyModel.get('blah') and MyModel.set('blah') and then (it uses ruby helpers) in a view you do something like this:
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RUBY:
<%= progress_view :progress_bar_id,
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