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    Install Firefox OS Apps on Any Domain

    The app store models we've grown up with suck:  you have to install apps from within those stores.  With iOS you go to a site, they provide a link to install their app, and you get swapped from the browser to the App store.  What an...

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    An Introduction to Persona

    So you've heard of this new hipster login service called Persona. It promises to relieve you of dealing with passwords, and be easy to setup. Can it really? I'm here to walk you through setting up Persona on your own website, in just a...

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    afterscriptexecute Event

    Fellow Mozillian Daniel Buchner, curator of the X-Tag project and clever developer who showed us how to detect dom node insertions using CSS animations, recently showed me a new JavaScript feature I'd never heard of:  the SCRIPT element's afterscriptexecute event.

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    Empty an Array with JavaScript

    Emptying an array is a common JavaScript task but too often I see the task performed in the incorrect way.  Many times developers will create a new array: That isn't the optimal way to get a fresh array;  to truncate an array, and thus empty it, you...

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    Introduction to dcl

    dcl is a minimalistic yet complete JavaScript package for node.js and modern browsers. It implements OOP with mixins + AOP at both "class" and object level, and works in strict and non-strict modes. The simplest way to learn something is to dive right in. Let's implement a...

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    Vibration API

    Many of the new APIs provided to us by browser vendors are more targeted toward the mobile user than the desktop user.  One of those simple APIs the Vibration API.  The Vibration API allows developers to direct the device, using JavaScript, to vibrate in...

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    Dojo DeferredList

    Deferreds are all the rage in the JavaScript community these days and who can argue?  Deferreds, an object representing an asynchronous action, make working with AJAX requests incredibly easy -- no callback hell, no problem passing request information around.  What if you want to work with...

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    The World Beyond MVC

    There's no shortage of JavaScript MVC (Model-View-Controller) architectures out there. The best-known is Backbone, but there are others: Spine, Agility, Knockback, etc. And in addition to the range of MVC frameworks, there are MV-whatever variants. This stuff, anecdotally...

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    JavaScript DocumentFragment

    One of the lessor known but incredibly useful gems within JavaScript is the DocumentFragment.  DocumentFragments allow developers to place child elements onto an arbitrary node-like parent, allowing for node-like interactions without a true root node.  Doing so allows developers to produce structure without doing so within...

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    Defer ALL The Things

    JavaScript was one of the first languages I ever learned, but as I drifted more toward Python development, I got increasingly out-of-touch with the best ways of doing things. Then a friend asked me to help on a project. The server was in Node.js and...