A crude JavaScript implementation of the first stage of Super Mario Brothers has been making the rounds today. It’s roughly playable but misses many key aspects (no mushrooms, no flag, no one-ups, etc.). However, that’s not what’s particularly interesting about the game. Perhaps the most interesting part of the application is not within the game […]
Comment · Posted: April 9th, 2008
Welcome Waxy.org and Slashdot readers. I blog about JavaScript, like it’s my job, feel free to subscribe for a ton more posts like this. Related Posts: Running Java in JavaScript JavaScript Talk at Northeastern University State of ECMAScript 4 The World of ECMAScript JavaScript As A Language Note: I’m not the creator of HotRuby, as […]
Comment · Posted: April 8th, 2008
The Mozilla Labs team has been busy working on some new extensions to enhance user experience while testing out new concepts. One extension that recently got a major update was Personas. The premise behind the extension is that it’s currently too difficult to trivially theme and customize your Firefox experience. To counter this Personas makes […]
Comment · Posted: April 4th, 2008
NOTE: This was an April Fools joke for April 1st, 2008. Over the past two years, seeing hundreds of thousands of people use jQuery, a major point has become apparent: jQuery simply isn’t able to scale to handle the development needs of most power users. It lacks the clarity and power functionality that most developers […]
Comment · Posted: April 1st, 2008
A long-standing feature within Mozilla’s rendering engine has been the getBoxObjectFor method. This particular method was a way for XUL elements to efficiently determine their position, amongst other things. A couple of years ago this feature started to be used by the general web-developer world. This was quickly realized to be a major mistake. Mozilla […]
Comment · Posted: March 31st, 2008
Yesterday I gave a presentation for the local ACM of Northeastern University. I covered the basics of JavaScript – targeted to a Computer Science major (in the case of the students at NU, they learn Scheme and Java so I emphasized the subject matter to that audience). I did a fast run-through of the whole […]
Comment · Posted: March 27th, 2008
There’s an important compatibility regression coming up with the releases of Firefox 3 and Safari 3.1 (and any other browser that will natively implement getElementsByClassName) concerning old releases of Prototype (pre 1.6). In talking with Tobie Langel, of the Prototype team, he recommends the following: We’ve already deprecated document.getElementsByClassName and Element#getElementsByClassName [in Prototype 1.6]. The […]
Comment · Posted: March 26th, 2008
It’s been 6 months but I haven’t forgotten. One final update:
Comment · Posted: March 19th, 2008
