OK, so this afternoon I got bitten by an issue that has bitten a gazillion web developers (and will probably continue to bite more in the future). I’m talking about the syntax for the callback function that’s used for jQuery.each() versus that for JavaScript’s Array.prototype.forEach(). They are, dear reader, not the same. […]
A couple of months ago, I was on a “Update All The Things” spree with my websites. In one of them, the blog I have for my Volvo 1800S, I’m using a purchased theme that I’ve left pretty much alone. It’s fine as far as it goes, a bit inefficient, but it did serve as a basis for my articles here on speeding up web pages (1, 2, 3). After I had written those it was time to fix the problems with the theme. […]
READ MOREToday it snowed. It started before we awoke and pretty much kept at it all day. Hence it was a day to do some work inside, and what better task than to clean up my blog? First port of call, and a major one at that, was to upgrade to jQuery 1.9. […]
READ MORELike 99% of all jQuery users, I write the code I want executed when the document is ready like this: […]
READ MOREI’ve been meaning to do a bit of housework on this site to clean up the CSS and to add a bit of interactivity. After all, I write a lot about JavaScript, so I might as well start adding some to my blog. […]
READ MOREFrom comments I received when I wrote my recent article over on my DevExpress ctodx blog, it seems there’s a need for people to understand how to write reusable code in the form of a library in JavaScript, and not fall into those nicely shaped C# potholes along the way. So I thought, let’s have a go. (Update: I’ve made a couple of corrections to point out the files this code appears in.) […]
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