Looks cool. has anybody tried it? (via Handlebars.js: Minimal Templating on Steroids)
Cutting the mustard
The browser is a hostile development environment and supporting a wide range of desktop browsers can be tough work.
One of the immediate challenges we discovered when we first started the responsive news prototype was the large range of devices that we would have to support. It terrified us. This article is about a solution we use to alleviate this problem.
jquery rewritten for mobile. smaller, faster.
This is a nice technique but I wouldn’t exactly call it elegant. Maintaining a copy of the content in the textarea just to set the height of the textarea is always a hack, no matter how clean the code is. This is pretty clean code though.
The article describes a pretty little technique, though it does expose a certain gap in CSS/JS. An array of stylesheets, each containing an array of rules, is a terrible abstraction. It leads to the keyframes = stuff you see in the screenshot: generating CSS as text. It would be nice to have a dynamic css class definition library.
On the other hand, if the world had a dynamic css class definition library, the first thing to happen would be it’s horrible horrible abuse. Every event (hover, click, keypress) would cause the entire page to redraw. IE would just melt down. In short, pandemonium. So maybe it’s best we just continue to specify every browser’s styles in our static css files.
An brief overview of why JS blocks page rendering. Good knowledge.
via… somebody. This tab has been open for 3 days. I don’t remember where it came from. So to whomever linked to this, thanks!
I had an idea this morning that Raphaël would be perfect for. Now to find the time…
