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iPhone 3.0 now with SquirrelFish Extreme?
I saw a post on Ajaxian about how iPhone 3.0 might now include SquirrelFish Extreme so I did a quick and dirty using this. Here’s are the results (raw spreadsheet here). iPhone 3.0 definitely has something, (whether it’s SquirrelFish or … Continue reading
Smush It – Easy Image Optimization
Just came across the ajaxian post about smushit.com which was presented at The Ajax Experience by Stoyan Stefanov and Nicole Sullivan. It’s a nifty tool that optimizes images on any web page you pass it by using doing lossless compression … Continue reading
SquirrelFish Extreme – Quick Benchmarks
The recent javascript vm wars harken back to the video card wars of the early 2000′s where 3dfx, ATI, and NVIDIA where trading blows. Instead of we have Google, WebKit, and Mozilla trading blows by releasing a faster and faster … Continue reading
V8, TraceMonkey, SquirrelFish, IE8 BenchMarks
After reading about the new JavaScript VM in Google Chrome (called V8) I was wondering how it would stack up against the new JS engines from Mozilla (TraceMonkey) and WebKit (SquirrelFish). I ran 3 tests across all the browsers, including … Continue reading
Dissecting ShareThis Widget (BAD) Javascript Code
I just installed the ShareThis button on this blog so I cracked open the javascript payload. You can view it here. In short, it’s horrific! It pains me to see this because this is a widget which means this code … Continue reading
Report: First Javascript SF Meetup
I had the pleasure of attending the first Javascript SF meetup at the Hi5 offices a couple days ago. It was a rather large turn out with some great demos. The main themes of the night were Canvas and Javascript … Continue reading
Quirky mousemove Event Firing
PPK, of quriksmode.org fame, has been busy updating his events compatibility table and has uncovered some interesting bugs in the mousemove event. When doing my new mousemove test I found a bug in IE5-7 that I was previously unaware of. When … Continue reading
Finally, an Acid Test That Matters!
The first Acid test was essentially to test browser compatibility for the box model. The Acid2 (try it out in the browser you’re on, Safari3 passes btw) test focused on HTML/CSS for static content. Now Acid3 is being developed and … Continue reading
Random Things…
Some things that have been spinning around in my head that don’t deserve a whole post… There was a good post on Ajaxian on the subject of unobtrusive javascript. It points to an outstanding article written by Christian Heilmann called … Continue reading
5 Reasons to Use jQuery UI (and 3 Reasons to Avoid It)
Yesterday, the jQuery team released their jQuery UI library which brings much needed UI components to an already stellar AJAX framework. Many developers love jQuery because of it’s simplicity and ability to get shit done quickly. It’s not an overly … Continue reading
i’m in like with you – Damn Good Looking Social Site
I saw this ‘secret, leaked’ tech demo (click to view demo) link on Digg today for a new social network called i’m in like with you. First of all, there’s no way that this link was leaked, more than likely … Continue reading
onMouseOver and Child Elements
I maybe way behind on this and I’m not sure how I haven’t encountered this little quirk in javascript until now but apparently the onmouseover (and subsequently onmouseout) event fires repeatedly at unexpected times. For example if you add an … Continue reading
iPhone xhtml Javascript Development Woes
The iPhone has been great for mobile, it’s given a full browser to the mobile world. Except for one thing, it’s Safari, which can be good and bad. It’s good for example if you’re developing an app for iPhone, you … Continue reading
AdMob AdMonitor
My current gig is at AdMob and we recently re-did the home page and took out a small little widget that had a live scrolling ticker of actual ad requests. When we redesigned the home page there just wasn’t room … Continue reading