Short tutorials and links about front-end coding
Collection of posts tagged with Javascript
With every larger Project I’ve developed and architected I’ve tried something new to improve things I’ve coded before. Reflecting and never being satisfied whit things done before has helped me become a better front end developer and architect. Now I’m arrived at a point where I dare to say that I have found the ultimate technique to insert JavaScript into an application.
Continue reading “My Ultimate Technique to Inject Javascript”
Selection of proven performance tips and tricks for jQuery, including tips for performance measuring tools like jsperf, faster selectors, traversing the DOM, variable caching, events, dom manipulation, loops and DRY code.
It’s a must read for everybody who uses jQuery. After reading you will definitely write faster and more performant DRY code.
http://www.slideshare.net/AddyOsmani/jquery-proven-performance-tips-tricks
Another approach to fix some behaviors of position fixed elements on iOS devices.
I wrote a new post about iOS Safari jumps to the top of the page when form elements inside fixed positioned divs receive input.
Continue reading “iOS fix for position fixed elements on input focus (virtual keyboard visible)”
inject.js is a < 1 kb (minified) asynchronous resource loader with callback functions.
Continue reading “inject.js – Async Resource Loader with Callback”
Javascript is probably THE language of the web. You can create awesome user experience on top of your – already awesome design – but you can also drive users to hate you and your site.
As a programming language it has to run to keep the things doing, but it is also very temperementfull when it breaks.
Javascript errors in production environments are the most bad thing that can happen to your customers, his users and you as a developer. You have to act immediately to find, understand and fix the error. This is my personal horror scenario as I dislike working under pressure and probably creating new errors while fixing that one.
Wouldn’t it be wonderfull if your javascript fails safe without annoying the user?