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.
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 first one to hear about it.
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” that’s added to every last item of a list, the last cell of a row could have been on the way out for once and all.
The “last-child” selector is a easy way of targeting the last element of any dom node collection. This is great for any last item of a list where you dont want that seperator to appear. MS doesn’t seem to realize that just doing half baked work with “first-child” doesn’t cut it.
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 “prototype” finds no results for the CSS selector (“div:nth-child(even)” and “div:nth-child(odd)”).
[tags]jquery, mootools [/tags]
When you work as part of a large company, there is an overabundance of similar experienced people. While this might appear as competive to many, to some its an opportunity to form a community…
Click to continue reading “Understanding why Communities are Important.”
Jquery is as usual the best you can get with plugins as well as the sheer joy of writing short and sweet. In this post I talk about 5 re-used Jquery snippets across projects. Some of this may not be news to you, but for some it might just make you a “jfan”
It amazes me how people can “extend shortcuts”. First there was Jquery, the shorter and meaner way to write Javascript and now there are extensions/ plugins. Smaller chunks of code that build upon Jquery to achieve cross browser effects. If you are still reflecting , I suggest you look for Reflections, the Jquery plugin that puts images in a new perspective.
The Jquery authors as well as other plugin writers virtually took out the need for other libraries, with a all in one package and a great support site. Having worked with Dojo, Mochikit, Prototype, Sarissa, Jquery feels much different.
[tags]jquery, development [/tags]
Well thanks for the single response, time for me to popularize this site I guess 
The code below is a left hand tree navigation built in ”Prototype“ without the tree elements . Its unique because…
Put it on a page and see it in action.
This was the third JS library I tried after Sarissa and Mochikit, nowadays I am dojoing a lot 
The file open / save dialog box probably gets the least limelight, it’s dismissed as fast as its invoked. However make no mistake the interface specialists probably gave a lot of thought. Microsoft doesnt seem to care to popularize the thought behind how its dialog boxes appear, but Apple does and I have a feeling that that MS simply read and copied from the Apple Interface
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