JavaScript Tutorials

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    Technorati Grabber:  Get Your Technorati Rank and Authority

    Technorati is one of those sites that's like Alexa in that you get an assigned rank. You also get what is called "authority," which represents: Technorati Authority is the number of blogs linking to a website in the last six months. The higher the number, the...

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    What Would You Like From Your Framework?

    We all have our JavaScript frameworks of choice and one or two we can pick up when we need to. Unfortunately, not all of them have a certain plugin or functionality that another one has. My question to you is: What's your favorite framework and...

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    5 Ways to Contribute to Your Favorite JavaScript Framework

    While you may not be a core member of any of the JavaScript frameworks, there are many ways that you can help contribute to the framework and team. Here are just a few. Submit a Ticket / Patch If you run into a framework defect, please submit...

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    Detecting Google Chrome Using JavaScript

    As we all know, Google's Chrome browser hit the web yesterday. Whether you wanted to or not, you definitely downloaded Google's effort to see what ingenuity they put into their browser. It's clean, fast, and more stable than Firefox has been for me lately.

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    Check for Google Analytics Using MooTools 1.2

    When I launched my new design last week, I used PHP to comment out Google Analytics because I didn't want to skew the stats. Well, I did skew my stats that day because I forgot to uncomment the damn GA code. Rook move, I...

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    Logging Information to the Firebug JavaScript Console

    Firebug is the ultimate Web Developer debugging tool. Firebug gives you control over the page's XHTML, JavaScript, CSS, AJAX requests, and more. It's important not to simply take in what Firebug tells you though -- you can log information to your Firebug...

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    Create a NoScript Compatible Select Form Element with an onChange Event

    I wouldn't say that I'm addicted to checking Google Analytics but I do check my statistics often. I guess hoping for a huge burst of traffic from some unknown source. Anyway, I have multiple sites set up within my account. The way to...

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    Implementing an Array.count() Method in JavaScript

    As much as I write about MooTools on my blog, I spend most of my work day knee-deep in PHP. As you probably know, one way to get the size of an array in PHP is to use the count() function: In JavaScript, the way to...

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    The wii and JavaScript

    Last week, AJAXian featured an awesome article about serving wii-friendly websites. Accompanied with the article was a snippet of JavaScript that detects if the user is browsing using the wii's Opera browser, taken from the Ext framework: At this time, as wii's are...

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    AJAX For Evil:  Spyjax

    With great power comes great responsibility. With every advancement in technology we face the threat of it being used for evil purposes. This is the case with AJAX. AJAX has a ton of great uses but one form of negative AJAX has taken...