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Sam Foster and I are once again leading a JavaScript discussion for Refresh Austin — this time focusing on the major libraries and on practical problem‐solving. Show up tonight at 7pm for the Dojo vs. Prototype girly slap‐fight! You won’t be disappointed.

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With Ajax Having Been Experienced…

• Posted in Articles, Prototype

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…

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If you’re going to The Ajax Experience, I’ll probably see you there. I’m getting on a plane tomorrow at an intolerable time before sunrise and will wind up in Boston sometime around 1pm. I look forward to several of the panels — and especially Brendan Eich’s keynote — but will also be thrilled to share a beer with those whose code I have used (and whose work I have copied) for over a year now: Justin Palmer, Dan Webb, Aaron Gustafson, John Resig, and other ninja‐like entities.

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I consider myself humbly fortunate to have been added as a member of Prototype‘s new core development team. My first patch: optimizing getElementsByClassName. Browsers with XPath support get an eightfold performance gain; others get a modest gain of 50–100%.

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Viewport Dimensions in JavaScript

Adapted from the functions posted on QuirksMode. 

var Client = {
  viewportWidth: function() {
    return self.innerWidth || (document.documentElement.clientWidth || document.body.clientWidth);
  },

  viewportHeight: function() {
    return self.innerHeight || (document.documentElement.clientHeight || document.body.clientHeight);
  },
  
  viewportSize: function() {
    return { width: this.viewportWidth(), height: this.viewportHeight() };
  }
};