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Most of us can agree that spawning popups with JavaScript is usually a user experience FAIL. We’ve all been to websites that opened several popup ads. That is always something to avoid. Malicious and ad-happy sites have made it necessary for browser plugins and some browsers to block JavaScript popups altogether. But there are some … Read more
This is something that I have been trying to make up my mind on over the past year and a half at least. The question? Do JavaScript libraries need an abstraction layer? Just to clear the air a little before we jump into the discussion, if you are making a small website, this doesn’t apply. … Read more
I tend to fall in with Coldfusion programmers from time to time and while I actually really like the language and the community, the one thing that can make working with Coldfusion and JavaScript harder is how the language returns JSON. Typical JSON looks something like this: But Coldfusion encodes structs to look more like … Read more
I’ve recently been thinking about what it would mean to emulate the MVC best practice of skinny controllers that started in the confines of server-side development within the much more glamorous language and beautiful JavaScript. For those of you who haven’t read some of my previous posts, I am a huge advocate of using Model … Read more
A few weeks ago, I started using SASS. What is SASS? It’s an acrostic that stands for “Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets.” SASS is run from the command line and essentially lets you write stylesheets with things like variables, nesting and mixins (which are pretty much the equivalent of the functions in a real programming language). … Read more
Has anyone ever told you that your application is too slow? What can you do about it? You can always point the finger at the server-side people and mumble something about the database being the problem, but is there anything you can do to speed up the loading time? Can you speed up the browser’s … Read more
Several months ago I wrote about event binding using ExtJS or Sencha touch. Something that you may or may not know is that you can achieve the same thing with jQuery using custom even binding. In case you didn’t see my Sencha post about this, or if you don’t work with Sencha, let me tell you what … Read more
We now have HTML5 and CSS3. Browsers are still racing to actually implement them, but the specs are here, whether they are fully realized in the wonderful world of browsers or not. So the real question becomes, what should we do with the knowledge we have of things to come? What I am going to … Read more
Having worked on several large scalable JavaScript and Ajax application over the past couple of years, I’ve started to form a definite opinion about what an application needs in order to be truly scalable and ultimately successful. So what does your application need? Multiple Files that compress down While you are developing and debugging your … Read more
I recently had the need to override all of my links on a Sencha Touch app with an onClick event. I needed to be able to open the links using the ChildBrowser plugin for PhoneGap. The problem was that I needed to grab the links before I rendered the content to the page and apply … Read more