Tag: javascript

ISO Public Standards

signs of reform? the ISO is putting some standards outside of the paywall, including schematron, relax ng, C, JPEG2000, old OSI crap, and ECMAScript

jsflowchart

Create flowchart-objects, drag, edit, resize, delete, connect them and export it as Microsoft Office Visio or Dia.

another piece of the online office puzzle? 🙂

new considered harmful

Do not use new Number, new String, or new Boolean. These forms produce unnecessary object wrappers. Just use simple literals instead. Same goes for new Function. its smaller and faster

Delicious Google Bookmarks

Inspired by Mihai’s discussion of Google Bookmark’s XML importing interface, I whipped up a quick bookmarklet for exporting one’s bookmarks from del.icio.us to Google. The greatest benefit of this approach is piece of mind, as communication between del.icio.us and Google is entirely client-side.

a first step to keep del and google bookmarks in sync

Lindenmayer Systems in Javascript

rules for fractals, includes drawing with canvas

Real-Time 3D in Javascript

This is a demonstration of rendering arbitrary triangles (relatively fast) with javascript/DOM/css (no images, flash, canvas tags or java applets).

heh. all this effort and it is still slow. the 3d web this ain’t

Acrobat 3D

Adobe Acrobat 3D software enriches collaboration by enabling extended teams to use Adobe PDF documents to more securely and reliably communicate 3D design intent. Insert and publish 3D designs from major CAD applications in Adobe PDF documents that can easily be shared

news to me that PDF / acrobat can do 3D. its built into the acrobat plugin and somehow requires javascript.

Avoiding JavaScript Memory Leaks

1) XMLHttpRequest onreadystatechange = 2) Clean up all your DOM event handlers on unload 3) Never put anything in a DOM expando or property other than a primitive value unless you plan on cleaning it up.

Cross-document messaging hack

the iframe cross document hack is making the rounds

Although the hack goes around the same domain policy, you should realize that it does not constitute a significant security threat, as it requires both frames to cooperate. Additionally, this mechanism allows for control of which domains can work together.

IE JS debugging

if you ever have to debug javascript in internet explorer, you really want to go and download the free visual web developer express. while it caters to morons, it comes with the reasonably robust script editor, which is way better than the vintage (1997) crap they recommend on the ie blog.