Recovered from the Wayback Machine. My editor at O’Reilly sent me a copy of Douglas Crockford’s JavaScript: The Good Parts, which I found to be both interesting and useful. The volume is slim, 153 pages in all, but packed full of information about JavaScript—the good parts and the bad. I found myself nodding more than once, raising my […]
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writings about JavaScript/ECMAScript and Node
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We can’t afford another browser war
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It was with a sense of foreboding that I read the posts that swam past on Planet Intertwingly today. First came Mozilla’s Brendan Eich’s chastisement of Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, followed in a short while by commentary by Sam Ruby, where he wrote: It is interesting how the don’t-break-the-web meme means different things to different organizations: Mozilla, […]
It was with a sense of foreboding that I read the posts that swam past on Planet Intertwingly today. First came Mozilla’s Brendan Eich’s chastisement of Microsoft’s Chris Wilson, followed in a short while by commentary by Sam Ruby, where he wrote: It is interesting how the don’t-break-the-web meme means different things to different organizations: Mozilla, Microsoft. I’m not a language […]
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Clever document.write killer
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Some ad networks and other script-based entities, such as Google Ads, I believe, use JavaScript document.write to write out the content to our web pages. The organizations use this because they want the content embedded in the page at the point where the item is placed, and there isn’t a […]
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Lists of good stuff
I love lists of good stuff: Danny Ayers, Week of Semantic Web. I hope, I hope, I hope, Danny continues this. Agile Ajax links several GWT tutorials, all in one post — handy if you’re into the Google Web Toolkit, or want to give it a try.