On this week's episode: we welcome my colleague Jason Laster from Mozilla to speak about the Firefox DevTools debugger. We talk debugging, console shame, the future of JavaScript debuggers, and more!
Back in late 2012 it was not easy to find open source projects using requestAnimationFrame() - this is the hook that allows Javascript code to synchronize with a web browser's native paint loop. Animations using this method can run at 60 fps and deliver fantastic...
I love almost every part of being a tech blogger: learning, preaching, bantering, researching. The one part about blogging that I absolutely loathe: dealing with SPAM comments. For the past two years, my blog has registered 8,000+ SPAM comments per day. PER DAY. Bloating my database...
Last year I wrote a popular post titled AJAX For Evil: Spyjax when I described a technique called "Spyjax":
Spyjax, as I know it, is taking information from the user's computer for your own use — specifically their browsing habits. By using CSS and JavaScript, I...
I get quite a few support requests for my previous MooTools SmoothScroll article and the issue usually boils down to the fact that SmoothScroll has become Fx.SmoothScroll. Here's a simple usage of Fx.SmoothScroll.
The HTML
The only HTML requirement for Fx.SmoothScroll is that all named...