External selectors as engines and how to create your own library

With " Sizzle event", the challenge about libraries will move from the coolest/fastest selector engine into the coolest/fastest w...

Visual Studio 2008 - The good part

... whatever I said in the precedent post, at least VS9 let us extend it and create macros as well. Unfortunately, I could not create a macr...

Visual Studio 2008 and JavaScript: the worst couple ever

We are using Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition at work and it is great for our C# plus SQLServer application, but I am working entirely with J...

outerHTML for almost every browser ... if you need it ...

We all have to deal with memory leaks problem and apparently a good way to be sure that an HTMLElement has been removed from its "flow...

A fast and crossbrowser function to make an Array

An absolutely common task present in almost every library, is to transform a generic collection/list of objects or DOM Elements into a frien...

Stressfull procedure? Distribute your task!

Have you never been in troubles with frozen GIFs or unresponsive HTML? Sometimes JavaScript could be used to perform really stressful task a...

Ext JS - How to hack the JsonReader

I have a new job ( hooooray?! ) and I suggested Ext JS framework as web UI to focus more about Ajax, XML + XSLT data interactions rather tha...

3, 2, ... 1, ... Coming Soon!

Guys, I can't wait for Ubuntu 8.10 and what's up in the website? The countdown now shows a "Coming Soon" message ... I mea...

jQuery plug-in distributed elements via If, ElseIf, and Else

After a couple of instant and consecutive releases, I ended up with a plug-in that fits minified into 240 bytes :) Here is the official plug...

jQuery If, ElseIf, and Else plugin

Update Guys, I have to admit I created silly prototypes while all I need were much more simpler than I though :) Enjoy last version ! ------...

Subclassing JavaScript Native String

Just a quick post about subclassing native String constructor. All we need is to redefine valueOf and toString methods. function $String(__v...

Big Douglas begetObject revisited recycling a unique function

With the precedent post I realized I wrote a really tricky way to extend inline a function.Next code is the snippet summary: MyExtendedConst...

a new Relator object plus unshared private variables

This is a Robert Nyman 's post dedicated reply, about JavaScript inheritance and alternatives and private variables . First of all, I wo...

JavaScript bits and bops :-)

This post is about a couple of probably useful JavaScript functions, that on daily basis could make our code smarter ;) String.prototype.Re...

jSmile 0.4 - Stand alone Version

nic comment: hey. thank u for that awesome plugin. how can i download the smilie package? i want to host them on my webspace because i want...

Internet Explorer Security Hole - A Better Example

Again, about the security hole I talked about last posts, but this time with a really simple example . How does the example work Open In...

Internet Explorer 6, 7, or 8 exposes users data via JavaScript

Ok, ok, I know these are Google Chrome dedicated days , but how can be possible that my last post did not receive attention at all? Maybe w...

Security Basis, and an Internet Explorer data stealer

It has been about 4 years, or more, that I know about this problem, but for some reason I did not talk about it, scared by possible reaction...

Google Chrome Fix

Update 2008/09/04 I have created a new version that should be able to recognise the correct Google directory in every supported windows, and...

IE8 Beta 2 - inline images, and anything else

With IE8, we finally can "play" with inline images, specially for CSS or other little decorations. The main limitation is that the...

How to crash FireFox 3 with 3 lines of code

Hi there, here I am back from holidays :geek: Before I'll start to write more interesting stuff, here we have 3 lines of JavaScript that...

Image Protector, a nice waste of time

I've read right now about another, pointless, attempt, to avoid the classic Save Image As from a website. Guys, we are in 2008, and I h...

Mousetrap in C language

Just for fun, and performances are horribles as well in new C version, performances are great until 5000 cards, so I need to remove some du...

Google Code Jam: Mousetrap in 4 languages - GAME OVER

First of all, I would like to thank the Google team for Code Jam opportunity, and its organization: AMAZING! Yesterday I have lost my Round ...

JXON - A little update loads of documentation

I have updated my lightweight JXON library right now, lightly improving them, and adding a consistent documentation for each method as well...

JXON - Lossless JavaScript to XML Object Notation convertion

It seems to be the time to talk about JavaScript template engines , and DocumentFragments , so here I am with my last idea: a JavaScript XML...

Google Code Jam, or better, how to feel a 100% idiot !

Update 2 Congratulations! The results of the Google Code Jam 2008 Qualification Round are now official, and we're happy to announce that...

JavaScript Relator Object, aka unobtrusive informations

Have you never though about add, modify, or remove a generic information from a variable, and without changing variable itself? This is all ...

An alternative JavaScript development pattern

A common pattern to develop JavaScript libraries is to use different behaviours inside methods, and based on browser, or browser plus its ve...