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DOMAssistant 2.7.1 released, future plans and asking for help

Published on Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

As most of you are aware of, me and a small group of very talented people are working on our JavaScript library of choice, DOMAssistant, because we have a strong belief that light-weight code, fast and accurate performance, Unicode support and modularity is very important, and crucial for the future state of the web.

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The ultimate getElementsByClassName, anno 2008

Published on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Two and a half years ago, I released the first version of getElementsByClassName. With how web browsers has evolved since, I thought I’d release a real ultimate version, dated 2008. :-)

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Conditional Compilation in JavaScript

Published on Monday, May 26th, 2008

A feature most people don’t seem to know about is conditional compilation in Internet Explorer web browsers.

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Book review: The Art & Science Of JavaScript

Published on Monday, May 19th, 2008

A while ago I received a book which I had anticipated to have the chance to read: The Art & Science Of JavaScript.

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How to avoid automatic type conversion in JavaScript

Published on Friday, May 16th, 2008

A very common problem when people code JavaScript, is that they don’t take automatic type conversion into account. As a result, there are numerous weird errors and JavaScript is getting a lot of blame for being loosely typed. Therefore, I’d like to show you an easy way to avoid that problem.

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DZone article about AJAX and element selection with DOMAssistant

Published on Thursday, May 15th, 2008

DZone asked me to write an article about DOMAssistant, so I chose to give an introduction to how to work with element selection and especially different ways of making AJAX calls. Please read Making Element Selection and AJAX simple with DOMAssistant for more information.

How to hide and show initial content, depending on whether JavaScript support is available

Published on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

Many people ask me how I choose to address an situation where all content in a web should be available without JavaScript, but certain parts hidden if JavaScript is enabled.

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Are you a woman reading this?

Published on Monday, May 12th, 2008

Ok, this is probably one of those publishings that will be a miserable failure, a crash-and-burn post. But hey, we learn from our mistakes, right? :-)

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Improve your web site performance - tips & tricks to get a good YSlow rating

Published on Friday, May 9th, 2008

When YSlow was released to indicate how well a web site performed, there were a lot of people disappointed, and perplexed, by their own score. Overall, I think performance is underrated, so I thought I’d give you some short guidelines how to improve the performance of your web site.

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PictureSlides plugin released for DOMAssistant

Published on Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

We have just released a PictureSlides plugin for DOMAssistant, with which you can create picture slideshows, image presentations and also complete picture galleries.

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Sweden’s best developers

Published on Monday, May 5th, 2008

Swedish magazine Computer Sweden has appointed who they think are the 75 best developers in Sweden In Swedish, and I was ranked number 19.

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Event delegation with JavaScript

Published on Sunday, May 4th, 2008

There has been a fair share about JavaScript and event delegation, but since a lot of people doesn’t seem to have read it, I thought I’d re-iterate the point here. The more the merrier, right? :-)

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