- 1 line CSS Grid Framework — Distilling a CSS framework into one line is an interesting experiment, in that it shows essentially what all of the other (bigger than one line) frameworks are doing. Also, if you look at the markup of a site that was built using it, it serves as a pretty good reductio ad absurdum against CSS frameworks.
- jQuery Performance Rules — A useful collection of best practices that can speed up your jQuery code by non-trivial amounts. I’ll admit that I’m often guilty of sticking the bulk of my code inside of
$(function(){...}). - jQuery: Inline caching for selectors — If you’re taking the advice of the article linked above and caching your jQuery objects, take a look at this technique for keeping those cached objects available throughout your app without polluting the global namespace (hint: it uses closures).
- Procs And Blocks And Anonymous Functions — Speaking of closures, this is a decent rundown of the various uses of closures in Ruby.
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Links for June the Second, 2009
Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009What I’m Reading: 3/28
Friday, March 28th, 2008- It’s Not a League of Their Own: Boston Dirt Dogs has an excerpt from the 2008 Red Sox Annual in which the authors size up the Sox’ competition in the American League. On the whole, it’s pretty interesting I guess, but the best part is that the section on the Orioles is just one long reference to The Wire. And if you read a little further down there’s another Wire reference that’s masquerading as a pithy statement about the economics behind your brand new Tampa Bay
DevilRays:
My economics are rusty, but when you have an inferior product in a saturated, inelastic market, one strategy is to re-brand the product. Therefore, exit the Devil, and their aqua uniforms, to be replaced by the San Diego Padres kits with blue replacing sand brown.
Stringer Bell is alive and well in the sports pages, folks.
- WebKit gets 100% on Acid3: “Yesterday’s news” you say? Nope. The news today is about Webkit/GTK. Awesome news for us LXers. Also, definitely take a look at this account of the main Webkit team’s road to 100/100. It’s got some fun insights for spectators of the race between Webkit and Opera for full Acid3 compliance. And for some (probably much-needed) perspective, here’s one Mozilla-er’s take on the Acid3 arms race.
- JavaScript Talk at Northeastern: It’s a video of John Resig’s recent talk at Northeastern on Javascript and jQuery. What are you still doing here?
What I’m Reading: 3/20
Thursday, March 20th, 2008- CSS Styled Scrollbars With Mootools and JQuery: Currently, only the IEs support the styling of scrollbars with CSS alone (although scrollbar styles are part of CSS3). This post links to a couple of Javascript-library-based techniques to get the job done in the meantime.
- Making ‘IE6-friendly’ PNG8 Images: Turns out our beloved hack to get transparent PNG32s in IE6 can sometimes crash the browser. To play it safe and ensure crash-free viewing of your site, it’s probably best to use PNG8 until IE6 is no longer a factor (someday, «rassafrackin…»). This post gives you some techniques to make your PNG8 graphics almost as useful as PNG32s.