Compressor Rater – The Javascript Compression rater.

Compressor Rater – The Javascript Compression rater.

Oct 26

I like comparisons and especially when a tool takes my input and produces 3 different Step in Compressor Rater it takes the Dojo Shrinker, JSMin and YUI compressors for Javascript and produces a report as well as gives you an option to copy paste the resulting code. More >...

Of Jumping Cows and Energy Domes.

Of Jumping Cows and Energy Domes.

Oct 19

Both Jquery and Mootools are great libraries, however one must win. Is it the Cow or the Dome, find out as I compare both these libraries feature by feature. But why now?, Mootools has just released their 1.2 version which boasts of a HashMap for clientside objects. Jquery has seen a 1.2.1 version ( sounds familiar?, look above) for a month now. Why dont you subscribe to the feed to be the...

The case of lost children – CSS 3 and Why you should care about it.

The case of lost children – CSS 3 and Why you should care about it.

Oct 08

A while back I had this post about support for CSS3 in IE7. With a growing share of 23% and a mission to make this version automatically available to all users of Windows XP, IE7 still seems to have got it wrong for the developer. The CSS3 frustration continues, for e.g: the “last-child” selector, could have been a boon to site designers. The trailing “class=last”...

Jquery is faster in the Mootools SlickSpeed Test.

Jquery is faster in the Mootools SlickSpeed Test.

Oct 01

Mootools has a great speed test for DOM selectors in JS libraries called the “SlickSpeed” test. The results compare “Mootools “, “Prototype ” and “Jquery“. In the instance that I ran ( I only clicked “Start Tests”!) , Jquery came in first. Jquery is on the third column in the attached thumbnail. Its also interesting to note that...