Buzz Archives: DOM Scripting TF
DOM Scripting: A Web Standard
Following @media 2005 — the first Web Standards conference in Europe — a group of front-end coders gathered in a pub in London to discuss JavaScript. JavaScript had a problem. Its reputation was tarnished, to say the least. The common perception of client-side scripting was frozen in the late '90s ...
By Jeremy Keith | February 20th, 2008
- A band-aid for browsers
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With tongue firmly in cheek, DOM Scripting Task Force member Dean Edwards says: Just what the world needs, another JavaScript library. That hasn't stopped him from creating Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation™. But this isn't a big full-featured library along the lines of jQuery or YUI. Instead, this works more along ...
By Jeremy Keith | March 26th, 2007
- Talking with Microsoft about IE.next
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I was in Redmond on Friday to meet with a few folks on the Internet Explorer team to discuss improvements we (as in the WaSP DOM Scripting and Microsoft task forces, and the JS Ninjas) wanted to see in IE.next.
By Aaron Gustafson | February 4th, 2007
- Reducing the pain of adopting a JavaScript library
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Why is it so difficult to adopt a new JavaScript library? Chris Heilmann offers library developers a path for improvement.
By Mike Davies | December 12th, 2006
- You can improve IE.next
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If you’ve ever wanted the opportunity to tell Microsoft what they should do with IE next, now is the time.
By Aaron Gustafson | November 4th, 2006
- Video Presentation: Douglas Crockford on the “Theory of the DOM”
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Douglas Crockford, discoverer of JSON and JavaScript evangelist/veteran has given a training on the theory of the DOM lately and the videos are available on the web. The course takes you through the theory of the DOM, how browsers implement it and what the problems with the DOM and the ...
By Christian Heilmann | October 18th, 2006
- Event Handling versus Event Delegation
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It is not new, but it still is rather clever: In order to avoid having to add event handlers to each and every element you want to monitor, you can use one single handler on a parent element and let browser event bubbling do the rest of the work for ...
By Christian Heilmann | September 24th, 2006
- IE7 JavaScript Improvements
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The IEBlog recently reported some improvements in IE7’s JavaScript engine.
By Dean Edwards | September 21st, 2006
- Detecting when good fonts change size
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Designing for the web is challenging enough, but when you need to take into account scaling font-sizes, it can quickly become a nightmare. The common wisdom is to design your pages to accomodate fonts two sizes up and two sizes down from the default, but with this new script from two clever Yahoo! blokes, your can get way more clever.
By Aaron Gustafson | September 12th, 2006
- Maintainable JavaScript
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The Web Standards Group (not to be confused with the Web Standards Project) is a grassroots organisation based in Australia dedicated to promoting web standards and accessibility. The organisation's activities have now spread to the other side of the world. The first Web Standards Group event in London was held last ...
By Jeremy Keith | July 18th, 2006
- Talking about JavaScript in London
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JavaScript was just one of the items on the menu at this year's @media conference in London. The panel on JavaScript libraries featured Simon Willison, Stuart Langridge, Peter-Paul Koch, Dan Webb and the host with the most, Cameron Adams. It was a highly entertaining romp through the pros and cons ...
By Jeremy Keith | July 3rd, 2006
- JavaScript beyond the browser
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It's always interesting to see Web Standards used in a setting outside the browser. Did you know, for instance, that the chat client Adium can be skinned using CSS? JavaScript is showing up in more and more desktop apps. Apple's Dashboard and Yahoo's widgets (formerly Konfabulator) are the obvious examples. But ...
By Jeremy Keith | June 23rd, 2006
- Promoting the responsible use of JavaScript: writing, teaching and presenting
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The members of the DOM Scripting Task force have been busy writing and reviewing books, teaching and presenting at conferences and workshops, and preparing for upcoming events; focusing on the responsible use of JavaScript, as well as accessible JavaScript. Here’s an update of recent and forthcoming activities our Task Force members are involved in. Next stop is @media 2006 - see you there!
By Mike Davies | June 12th, 2006
- London Web Standards Group meeting 14th of July
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See Andy Budd and Christian Heilmann talk about “Maintainable JavaScript” and “Who cares about Standards” respectively on 14th of July in London. Cheap as Chips and a good networking opportunity to boot!
By Mike Davies | June 8th, 2006
- A DOM Scripting Wishlist for Microsoft
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Peter Paul Koch has kick-started a discussion called “IE 7 and JavaScript: what needs to be fixed?”
By Jeremy Keith | April 30th, 2006
- Painless Node Creation with DOM Builder
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Dan Webb’s DOM Builder takes the finickiness out of standards-based markup generation.
By Jeremy Keith | April 14th, 2006
- DOM Builder
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Now here’s a script we can get behind… Dan Webb’s DOM Builder combines the ease of innerHTML with the precision of DOM methods.
By Jeremy Keith | April 13th, 2006
- Trying to explain the differences between DHTML and DOM scripting with an example
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A summary of the issues around DHTML, and the value behind DOM Scripting.
By Christian Heilmann | March 29th, 2006
- Dean Edwards Speaks
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Jonathan Snook interviews Dean Edwards.
By Jeremy Keith | March 20th, 2006
- Cross-Browser Comparison of Scripting Libraries
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A scorecard of scripting libraries.
By Christian Heilmann | March 6th, 2006
- Quick Explanation of the Object Literal
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Christian Heilmann explains the object literal JavaScript syntax.
By Christian Heilmann | February 17th, 2006
- Yahoo Releases its User Interface Library
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Graded Browser Support, design patterns library, user interface library. Its been a busy day over at the Yahoo Developer Network.
By Jeremy Keith | February 14th, 2006
- AJAX for Eclipse
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IBM, Mozilla, Zimbra and Dojo announce a project to develop AJAX widgets for Eclipse.
By Chris Kaminski | February 2nd, 2006
- getElementsByTagNames()
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getElementsByTagNames() returns elements with several tag names in the order they appear in the document.
By Peter-Paul Koch | January 30th, 2006
- Shorter DOMScripting via Cloning vs. Generating New Elements?
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Is cloning nodes quicker than generating new elements?
By Christian Heilmann | January 6th, 2006
- JavaScript Animation for Beginners
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A beginner-level tutorial on JavaScript animation from Emrah Baskaya.
By Chris Kaminski | December 29th, 2005
- JavaScript Tips From Dean Edwards
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Dean Edwards starts JavaScript tips with speeding up object detection.
By Jeremy Keith | December 27th, 2005
- Developer Resources
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Yahoo have just added a JavaScript center to their Developer Network.
By Jeremy Keith | December 18th, 2005
- AJAX Mistakes
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A good list of DOM Scripting mistakes.
By Chris Kaminski | December 6th, 2005
- Tool for tracking IE memory leaks
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Drip, the IE leak detector.
By Chris Kaminski | December 6th, 2005
- When to use DOM Scripting (and When Not To)
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Alex Bosworth has a thoughtful piece on what sorts of apps require DOM Scripting for optimal user experience, and what sorts of apps are better without.
By Chris Kaminski | December 4th, 2005
- The W3C Web API Working Group
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W3C announces the Web API group to develop specifications that enable improved client-side application development on the Web.
By Jeremy Keith | November 23rd, 2005
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W3C Offers Online Training Course: Mobile Best Practices
By Holly Marie Koltz | May 4th, 2008
The W3C Mobile Web Initiative is offering the online training course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices from May 26 - June 20, 2008. The course is free, registration is open, but limited.
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Thanks also go to Henny Swan for posting an entry about this on her site at Want to Get Your Content Mobile.
Update: Registration is full and now closed.
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