Category: Articles

Oct28

 

With Ajax Having Been Experienced…

That’s right — I just used the perfect passive participle. Deal with it.
Everyone else is doing it, so I suppose I have to do a postmortem on The Ajax Experience.
IE.next and JavaScript
The just-released Internet Explorer 7 features only a few crumbs for JavaScript developers, so I respect Chris Wilson and the rest of the

Jul10

 

More than you ever wanted to know about $$ and XPath

I took great interest in Sylvain Zimmer’s optimized version of Prototype’s $$ function, since I’ve been working on something very similar recently. Sylvain’s version uses more workmanlike string parsing; mine uses XPath. Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses.
The $$ function
For those unfamiliar with Prototype: the $$ function is used to perform DOM

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