In the first follow-up to my previous post, on Future-Proofing JavaScript Libraries, I bring you instructions on testing Prototype against the latest alpha builds of Firefox 3! (Soon, this will be integrated straight into the Mozilla test system, but I needed a good test system to start with, and Prototype is a good candidate to […]
Comment · Posted: March 19th, 2007
Mark Finkle suggested that I do some speed testing, now that a native implementation of getElementsByClassName has landed in the Mozilla trunk (destined for Firefox 3). So I went around and dug up all of the different, existing, implementations that I could find. Currently, implementations fall into one of three categories (with some straddling more […]
Comment · Posted: March 8th, 2007
There’s a JavaScript feature that I feel needs much more attention: Native JSON support in browsers. It’s something that should be a JavaScript language feature and yet no browser, or standards body, has defined, specified, or implemented what exactly it is, or should be. On top of this, it is one of the most (implicitly) […]
Comment · Posted: March 6th, 2007
This Friday I’ll be flying down to Austin to attend SXSW. I’m really excited to be going, it looks like its going to be a lot of fun. There’s going to be a ton of people that I know, there, and I’m looking forward to meeting them. I won’t be presenting this time around, I’m […]
Comment · Posted: March 5th, 2007
We’re starting to undertake a few new initiatives, here at Mozilla that attempt to find ways to benefit web developers – and by extension, JavaScript Libraries. I think this is an excellent movement, so I’m doing everything that I can to support it and push it forward. With that in mind, here’s an introduction to […]
Comment · Posted: March 1st, 2007
Another feature that’s coming along, into Firefox 3, from the WHATWG Web Applications 1.0 spec is that of Online/Offline events. This feature serves as the second piece to the “Offline Web Application” puzzle (The first being DOM Storage), that’s really coming into place in Firefox 3. What is the purpose of offline events? Effectively, in […]
Comment · Posted: February 16th, 2007
I’ve been waiting for this one for a while – and it was just committed to the Mozilla trunk yesterday: Firefox 3 is going to have support for getElementsByClassName. Robert Sayre just merged in his changes yesterday, taking this feature live. If you’re curious as to why this feature is being included (or where the […]
Comment · Posted: February 2nd, 2007
I’m not sure if everyone has been following the recent Microformat work being done at Mozilla, but it’s very cool – and exactly what the Microformat movement needs. I was able to talk with Michael Kaply the night that he released Operator (Mozilla’s, sponsored, Microformat extension). This extension is part of the new Mozilla Labs […]
Comment · Posted: February 1st, 2007
