Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

WebKit Releases New SunSpider 1.0 Benchmark to Chart the Future of JavaScript Performance

JavaScript, WebKit | Posted by Keefr May 2nd, 2013

Benchmarks are all over the place, but the interesting bit about this one is that this one is really spurred by Google forking the Webkit project, making its own spinoff called “Blink,” which allows it to separate itself from Apple’s Nitro JS processor, which Chrome doesn’t utilize.

Samsung (and others) end up as the odd men out though, as it uses the Apple WebKit Engine, but Chrome’s V8 JS engine. Things could get interesting going forward if these forks… well fork more.

WebKit Releases New SunSpider 1.0 Benchmark to Chart the Future of JavaScript Performance

Nice Notifications For the Web

JavaScript | Posted by Keefr April 28th, 2013

This is simple, but so nice: they’re animated subtly and inspired by desktop notifications using JavaScript.

Love this, and will be utilized as soon as I have a need for it.

Notify.js: browser dialogs never looked so good

Optimization: How to Lose Weight in the Browser

CSS, HTML, Optimization | Posted by Keefr March 18th, 2013

Love this in-depth article about optimizing your web properties. I have been a proponent of a lot of this already, but there’s some new things in here I want to try and/or incorporate.

How to Lose Weight in the Browser

Hat tip, Bret

Packery: Building on Masonry

JavaScript | Posted by Keefr February 15th, 2013

Love the Mansonry JavaScript plugins out there, but this is cool in that it addresses the biggest issue of Masonry: the gaps than can occur in layouts. Can’t wait to check it out.

Packery: Building on Masonry

JavaScript ‘this’ in Different Contexts

JavaScript | Posted by Keefr January 30th, 2013

The link below is a nice little primer/refresher on the JavaScript reserved keyword, “this” and its different contexts — illustrating what “this” would represent in each case.

JavaScript ‘this’ in Different Contexts

Presentations With Reveal.js and HTML5: Better Than PowerPoint

HTML, JavaScript | Posted by Keefr October 19th, 2012

Reveal.js is a little JavaScript library that I’ve posted about before on here. It’s pretty cool for doing presentation-like stuff. The headline is pretty funny though: “Better Than PowerPoint.” Most things are.

Presentations With Reveal.js and HTML5: Better Than PowerPoint

When Milliseconds Are Not Enough: Performance.Now()

HTML, JavaScript | Posted by Keefr August 24th, 2012

A timestamp and its milliseconds resolution isn’t always a finite enough time value. Enter Performance.now(), available in Chrome stable, Firefox 15+, and IE10.

When Milliseconds Are Not Enough: Performance.Now()

Form-Field Validation: The Errors-Only Approach

HTML, JavaScript | Posted by Keefr June 28th, 2012

Love this write-up from over at Smashing Magaizine’s subdomain, uxdesign. It circles around on usability and where and when to use different validation techniques with your web sites’ forms.

Form-Field Validation: The Errors-Only Approach

5 Things They Told You Not to Use in JavaScript

JavaScript | Posted by Keefr April 26th, 2012

Another nice JS-related article from over at mir.aculo.us. This one focuses on five of the things you’ve heard to never do with JS:

5 Things They Told You Not to Use in JavaScript

Writing semicolon-less JavaScript, the for-people-who-want-to-get-stuff-done edition

JavaScript | Posted by Keefr April 19th, 2012

It might not be required, but it does make your JS quicker to scan. Plus, JSLint sure won’t be happy with your lack of semicolons.

Writing semicolon-less JavaScript, the for-people-who-want-to-get-stuff-done edition