May 2008
4 posts
People are dumb →
Kevin Yank:
“But here’s where things get interesting: some of the libraries, like jQuery, have added support for a whole bunch of extra selectors on top of those provided by the CSS specs, while others, like Dojo, have stuck to supporting standard CSS selectors only.”
So the article is a pretty average overview of the idea of the forward-looking API. What is so awful about this...
A New Look For Zebra Striped Tables →
Christian Piper:
“After reading A List Apart’s article about if zebra striping (Link) makes any significant impact on speed/accessibility, I thought I would knock a quick demo up of taking zebra striping a step further using the mouseover event of jQuery, to me this appears to speed up scanning of the data.”
I was hoping someone would come up with some ideas after that article. And...
Noticing the differences between JS libraries →
Barney Boisvert:
“jQuery seems to make you work harder to type less code, while Prototype seems to cost you a few more characters for a bit less density. With the exception of Prototype’s class support, their feature sets are fairly equivalent”
Some great insight into the relative tradeoffs of two different JavaScript libraries. I enjoy to read a post from someone that didn’t...
On the difficulty of programming →
Karsten Wagner:
“Bad programmers aren’t able to really understand the problem in all it’s details. Because of this they tend to ‘emulate’ or ‘simulate’ it step by step (for example by looking how a human solves the problems the program should do and than writing a program which does it similar). But simulation isn’t the same as creating a solution based on thorough understanding.”
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