Category Archives: JavaScript

JavaScript Arguments

Posted on February 21, 2006 by James McParlane

arguments The arguments object provides access to the arguments that are passed into a function. You can refer to a function’s arguments within the function by using the arguments array. This array contains an entry for each argument passed to the … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layout Using JavaScript

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Its a few vowels short of a buzzword, but don’t hold that against it. There is a strong trend at the moment towards dynamic resolution dependent layout via JavaScript, that is the page rearranges the layout of its content via element-wise x,y positioning … Continue reading →

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More Reason To Continue With The MetaWrap Rendering Pipeline

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Great post by Dave Johnson that replicates and surpasses some of the benchmarking I have already into the practicality of using XSLT. This is why XSLT is at the heart of the MetaWrap JavaScript Rending Pipeline. The rendering pipeline and macro … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Speed Trials – Post III

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Comment Tests – Parsing In this test the test code is parsed 100 times for each measurement. The number of comments varies from 1 to 10000 in increments of 666. Each of the comments is 64 characters long     … Continue reading →

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JavaScript Speed Trials – Post IV – JavaScript Namespaces

Posted on January 9, 2006 by James McParlane

Continuing my analysis of JavaScript performance. For this test I’m testing the impact of the current trend of JavaScript namespaces. Namespaces In this test 500000 iterations of the main function are performed. The depth of the namespace varies from 1 … Continue reading →

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Why I Still Won't Use The prototype.js JavaScript Library

Posted on January 7, 2006 by James McParlane

I was not prepared for the amount of responses I got to my last article. There really are two camps – and they sit around fires making pointy sticks. The most constructive was from Rob Sanheim with this post, which got me … Continue reading →

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Why I Don't Use The prototype.js JavaScript Library

Posted on January 6, 2006 by James McParlane

When it comes to JavaScript there is one issue for which there seems to be two polarised camps, and that is the question of extending the inbuilt JavaScript Array and Object types via the prototype object. There are those who … Continue reading →

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The Minimal HTML Document Defined

Posted on December 14, 2005 by James McParlane

Great article by Gez Lemon on the Minimal HTML document and the difference between required tags and required elements.

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More JavaScript and CSS News

Posted on December 13, 2005 by James McParlane

A list ofg Common CSS Bugs in Safari, Firefox and Opera by Andy Budd. An article by Ryan Campbell on the good bits in Sam Stephenson’s Prototype library. A further article by Justin Palmer on prototype. I’ve been busy in low level C land … Continue reading →

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Web Patterns

Posted on November 21, 2005 by James McParlane

Cool article that takes the concept of design patterns and applies it to web development. “….In short, we lack a pattern language for the web. But is our discipline mature enough to develop this vocabulary and language? Only trying to … Continue reading →

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