Posts in the "JavaScript" Category
Published on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Firefox 3.5 was released yesterday, and it has already reached 5 and a half million of downloads (at the time of writing). Therefore, I thought I’d answer some common questions, especially from a web developer perspective about the new version and which web developer extensions which will work with it.
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Published on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
I’ve had a few versions of my PictureSlides to create JavaScript slideshows, but now it has been completely rewritten and jQuery-optimized with some new control and features.
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Published on Thursday, June 18th, 2009
With the impending release of Firefox 3.5, I thought I’d cover the new things in JavaScript 1.8.1 - part of that is the very exciting support for native JSON, and you know what? They’re not the only ones supporting it!
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Published on Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Saving state or values have never been easy on the web, especially on the client-side, and using cookies have been far from ideal. Enter DOM/Web Storage!
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Published on Monday, June 8th, 2009
I meet lots of developers working with different technologies and tools, and one thing that interests me is which, if any, JavaScript library they use.
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Published on Friday, June 5th, 2009
Yesterday we had Geek Meet Charity in Stockholm, and in my opinion, it was a great success!
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Published on Thursday, May 28th, 2009
Not many people know it, but you can use “real” getters and setters in JavaScript if you want to.
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Published on Monday, May 4th, 2009
It’s been some time since the last event, but man, are we making up for it this time! Time for Geek Meet Charity June 4th 2009!
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Published on Monday, April 27th, 2009
Lately I’ve been investigating newer versions of JavaScript, and what web browser support they have. And, as usual when I create something I find useful, I want to share it with the world. 
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Published on Thursday, March 26th, 2009
Just playing around a little, I’ve created a new command for Ubiquity.
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Published on Monday, March 16th, 2009
One of the most common mistakes I see with web sites is demanding of the end user to know technology.
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Published on Friday, March 13th, 2009
Let’s talk about what we should know and learn, shall we?
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Published on Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
About a couple of weeks ago, I was approached by a Mozilla employee suggesting I talk at one of their events.
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Published on Thursday, February 5th, 2009
I have just released a new version of my Firefox extension Inline Code Finder and made a personal download record!
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Published on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
During the fall, I put a fair amount into writing an article for the Opera Web Standards Curriculum, and now it has finally seen the light: Handling events with JavaScript!
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Published on Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Admit that you have always wanted to know how to develop a Firefox extension but never had the time to learn. Here I will walk you through and at the end of the article we will have created a fully functional Firefox extension!
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Published on Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Most of you probably know about photo sharing at Flickr, and share and/or view your friends’ and families’ photos there. In my humble opinion, though, their set/gallery view could offer a better experience, and therefore I’ve set out to improve it with Flickr Gallery Plus!
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Published on Monday, January 19th, 2009
Ever felt that you have had the need to enhance your web browser, or the functionality of some web site you frequently visit? Here I will explain how to do that.
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Published on Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
The end of 2008 is near, and I felt it was time to summarize the passed year.
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Published on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
When I first coded and released Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, I had some more ideas with it, as well as some great feedback I have received and wanted to see to. The result is Inline Code Finder, which looks for inline styling as well as what the Obtrusive JavaScript Checker offered, and it comes in two versions!
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Published on Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Today I thought I’d introduce you to timers in JavaScript and how to use scope to make your life easier.
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Published on Thursday, November 20th, 2008
When I review web sites, and also in my own projects with a number of different team members, I almost constantly stumble across something web developers should really refrain from: inline styling and inline JavaScript code.
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Published on Saturday, November 8th, 2008
It was time for me to stop being a whiny lazy developer, and instead properly learn to develop Firefox extensions. So. the result is version 0.8 of Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, as a very much improved Firefox extension.
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Published on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Something which have troubled web developers for a long long time is the proprietary event handling implementation in Internet Explorer. In IE 8, this really has to go.
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Published on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
With the latest release of Obtrusive JavaScript Checker and its cool information and report features, I got the request to make it as a command for Ubiquity as well. So, here you go!
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Published on Sunday, November 2nd, 2008
When I launched Obtrusive JavaScript Checker, I immediately felt it had more potential, and I definitely had more features to add to make it even more compelling. Therefore, here comes a new release with javascript: link support, detailed inline event information and a summary report.
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Published on Friday, October 31st, 2008
In my work, part of it is analyzing both other people’s code as well as my own. Now I have created Obtrusive JavaScript Checker to help me out with that!
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Published on Thursday, October 30th, 2008
I guess some of you hard-core developers and keyboard shortcut lovers out there immediately took Mozilla’s Ubiquity extension for Firefox to your hearts when the first version was released in August. Now I have created a command to perform a search in my own web site with the help of Ubiquity, and naturally I want to share it with you.
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Published on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
When talking about JavaScript and inheritance, something that often go amiss from the discussion is the alternative of using proper namespacing instead.
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Published on Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
After my recent posts about JavaScript, there were some people asking for more information about inheritance - intrigued by the concept myself, and also inspired by Andrea Giammarchi’s comment , I though I’d come up with some scary shit.
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Published on Thursday, October 16th, 2008
One of most tricky behaviors by JavaScript interpreters is semicolon insertion.
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Published on Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
After reading JavaScript inheritance - how and why and Explaining JavaScript scope and closures, I thought we’d combine the knowledge gained to talk about private, privileged, public and static members (properties and methods) for objects in JavaScript.
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Published on Thursday, October 9th, 2008
I thought I’d try to explain something which many people struggle with: JavaScript scope and closures.
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Published on Wednesday, October 8th, 2008
Some time ago, I had lunch with a former colleague I last saw in 2000, when we were working together in a project. We got to talking, and eventually he asked me an interesting question.
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Published on Monday, October 6th, 2008
Currently I’m working a fair bit with JavaScript and teaching different ways to use it, and what I want to talk to you about is if and how you use inheritance in JavaScript.
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Published on Monday, September 29th, 2008
Having done an amount of cell phone research lately, I’ve had the not-so-pleasant experience of seeing the level of quality of certain cell phone vendor web sites. Therefore, I’d like to compare Nokia vs. Sony Ericsson.
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Published on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
As every other web developer on Earth, I initially clung on to Flickr for my photos, but recently I did a little evaluation round, and instead fell for SmugMug. Therefore, I thought it would be interesting to write down a comparison of those two services.
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Published on Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Version 2.7.2 of DOMAssistant has just been released, and beside from some small improvements and minor tweaks, it has two new and very interesting methods.
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Published on Friday, September 19th, 2008
I’m sure there are a few Tumblr fans out there, and if you are, naturally you’ll want a Tumblr badge to present it in your own web page?
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Published on Monday, September 15th, 2008
January 25th 2007, I released something I fondly nicknamed DOMAss, which step by step evolved into the today full-fledged DOMAssistant. Today, it is time to let it go.
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Published on Friday, September 12th, 2008
Ok, so some of you must think I’m slightly retarded in regards to discovering new internet services. The thing is, though, that I usually test a lot of them as soon as they surface, then wait to see if they become popular, and if yes, hops on the train as everyone else. This time around, the turn has come to FriendFeed and the FriendFeedBadge.
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Published on Thursday, September 4th, 2008
Some time ago I released PictureSlides, a DOMAssistant plugin to create compelling slideshows and thumbnail galleries, with a number of customizable options. Recently, I ported PictureSlides to also work with jQuery, so if you want to do something spiffy with images, I recommend you check it out!
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Published on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
The web is buzzing! Something which was due to come, sooner or later, has happened. Google is launching their own web browser today: Google Chrome.
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Published on Friday, June 13th, 2008
After a spring filled with varying degrees of turmoil, summer is finally here. And with that, my friends, comes my break from development, blogging and any other computer-related activity.
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Published on Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Looking at how JavaScript has and its usage has evolved, and also taking in how most JavaScript libraries seem to try to cater for every possible need people might have, I thought it was about time to get back to the basics. To me, that is spelled dLite.
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Published on Monday, June 9th, 2008
When developing applications with Adobe AIR, a vital feature is being able to push application updates to the end users. As it’s quite hard to find complete examples from Adobe, I thought I’d offer you a script how to do it.
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Published on Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
As I’m sure you know, I have a very strong interest in JavaScript, and what better way to try and feed that, than to read a brand new book by Douglas Crockford entitled JavaScript: The Good Parts!
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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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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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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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