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Quick Comparison: Browsers, Hardware & the HP TouchPad
There is no perfect benchmark or absolute comparison tool, but I like SunSpider to get a good feel. In the way I’m using it, I’m comparing browser speed on each respective device, but also overall performance because better processors obviously mean better performance in general. Usually. These results merely report the browser and the total [...]
Replace Line Endings in JavaScript
I was bringing text in via XHR and I needed to replace the natural \n line endings with a true <br /> break line so that it would be legitimate HTML when injected into the DOM. It’s pretty easy, but you just need to remember: replace returns! Since there are multiple versions of line endings, [...]
My First MooTools Presentation
On Thursday, May 27th, I gave my very first MooTools presentation to an eagerly awaiting AP Computer Science class. The presentation was in three parts, the first a general overview of javascript itself, the second a micro-guide to MooTools glowing finesse with elements, events and effects, and finally a complete section on MooTools classes to [...]
Google Chrome 5 Media Global Variable
Axel posted some great information in the MooTools User google group a while ago, sharing his expierence with Chrome 5. Recently, I ran into this very problem. The problem was that a global variable defined by chrome itself. It was a global read-only variable, it was special. My plugin could not override it, so my [...]
Facebook’s Javascript
Here’s the script. “Hey Ry, Firefox crashed again!” “What were you on?” “I was on Farmville…” “So you’re on Facebook using Flash. You’re asking for trouble…” That’s how it goes with my parents every so often. They love Facebook and the games, but they hate when Firefox crashes on them. I’ve attempted to explain the [...]