The excellent John Gruber recently released a Perl script which is capable of providing pretty capitalization of titles (generally most useful for posting links or blog posts). The code handles a number of edge cases, as outlined by Gruber: It knows about small words that should not be capitalized. Not all style guides use the […]
Comment · Posted: May 21st, 2008
There’s been an interesting security adjustment in Firefox 3 that’ll have some, potential, ramifications in some (file://-hosted) web pages. Specifically how local files are referenced and accessed, in parent directories, has changed. For example, previously you could create an HTML page and have it request a file in a parent directory, like so: However that […]
Comment · Posted: May 20th, 2008
There’s been a lot of interest in yesterday’s release of Google Doctype. The primary focus of the release is on documentation (specifically “documenting the Open Web”) however there’s also two extra, hidden, additions: A Google-released JavaScript library and an Open Web test suite. Let’s break down the parts of this release. Documentation On the main […]
Comment · Posted: May 15th, 2008
It’s been fascinating to watch the outpouring of interest and creativity that’s surrounded the recent release of Processing.js. First things first, the project has been moved over to Github. This will help with the collaboration/patching process going forward. Source Control: http://github.com/jeresig/processing-js/tree/master A number of patches have already been provided by active users and have been […]
Comment · Posted: May 14th, 2008
Demos below! As a sort-of reverse birthday present I’ve decided to release one of my largest projects, in recent memory. This is the project that I’ve been alluding to for quite some time now: I’ve ported the Processing visualization language to JavaScript, using the Canvas element. I’ve been working on this project, off-and-on now, for […]
Comment · Posted: May 8th, 2008
The guys over at Ajaxian asked me to do answer a couple questions for them (on video) so I set about forming it into a mini-presentation. I discuss a couple things: What’s happening in jQuery Core, jQuery UI, and the jQuery Project. What upcoming browser features I’m excited about. Some of what’s coming in JavaScript […]
Comment · Posted: May 7th, 2008
I’m going to do a new project release on Thursday, which should it be? Something small and fast. Something large and pretty.
Comment · Posted: May 6th, 2008
Shaun Inman wrote a quick post on what he’s calling “CSS Qualified Selectors“. The syntax that he’s proposing looks something like this: If you’re totally bent on Shaun’s syntax (don’t care for :has, I would assume) here’s the two-line plugin that’ll give it to you in jQuery: jQuery.parse.push(/^\s*(
Comment · Posted: May 5th, 2008
