Search Results for: JavaScript

Sketchy Skechers.com: Today’s DailyWTF is a pretty good one discussing the horrors of the Skechers website and how it’s delivered as XML then transformed via XSLT right in the browser.  Standard WTF stuff, really. But – lo and behold! – the head of the Skechers web team leaves a comment…and it’s a good one.  He [...]

Build My Pinned Site: I’m really impressed with this idea of “Pinned Sites” from Microsoft, though I don’t use IE, so its utility is kind of lost on me. The essential idea is that users can add sites to their taskbar – you get an icon on the taskbar, and when they right-click, all sorts [...]

Phono – jQuery Phone Plugin: This is ridiculously cool.  Works great too.  Call the default number that’s in the demo box on page load – I dare you. Phono is a simple jQuery plugin and JavaScript library that turns any web browser into a phone; capable of making phone calls and sending instant messages. You [...]

jsTerm: A telnet emulator written in Javascript.  Cool. jsTerm is an ANSI capable HTML5 Telnet terminal emulator based off Flashterm and written by Peter Nitsch. It is built using the Canvas API for graphics rendering and the WebSocket API to connect (over port 8000) to a proxy Node.js telnet server. I still remember telnetting to [...]

Opting Out of Google Analytics Web Tracking: Google is letting people opt-out of having their info collected by any site using GA. The opt-out option comes in the form of a beta plugin for IE 7 or 8, Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. After installation, the tool essentially tells Google Analytics Javascript (ga.js) not to [...]

Internet Explorer 9 embracing HTML 5, GPU acceleration: Interesting. [IE9] puts a lot of focus on support for the HTML 5 standards. IE9 is also expected to beef up performance, offloading tasks within the web browser to the graphics processing unit (GPU), or using separate CPU cores for certain elements of web pages if available. [...]

I wrote my first Jetpack plugin for Firefox this morning.  I’m exploring the value of Jetpack (or any browser client modification, really) to ease content migrations, so I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. To do this, I played around with something else I really wanted – the ability to copy the [...]

Palm fixes WebOS developer program, encourages open source : This is so awesome.  First, you can write apps for the Pre in HTML, CSS, and Javascript.  Second, you will be able to distribute them independent of any app store or catalog. Palm is preparing to launch the WebOS developer program. The company has announced that [...]

Most expensive javascript ever?: Opera needed some new servers – lots of them, costing lots of money.  They got some test servers from a vendor, but the results were not good. […] one of the world’s biggest hardware vendors – whose name every single reader will be familiar with, and whose hardware a good share [...]

Hidden Features Of [insert language here]: This is a collection of one of the neatest community-driven features of StackOverflow.  This guy explains it well. […] one day someone at StackOverflow started a “Hidden features of” post about a famous language (I don’t feel like finding out which one was first exactly), and it turned out [...]