Position Absolute, resources for the web developer http://www.position-absolute.com Get your web worker news fix Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Optimizing search functionality with large javascript arrays Processing arrays can take quite a few bit of time, this is something that can directly impacts the loading speed of your page and depend of the computer and the browser your users use. When you think that a typical…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/optimizing-a-search-functionality-with-large-javascript-arrays/ Introduction to the Google WebFont Loader You remember the “old days” when you were cursing at sIFR because it would not give you the font-size you wanted, did text flickering on page load or was just not working at all on IE? Well those days are…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/introduction-to-the-google-webfont-loader-and-how-to-avoid-font-face-text-flickering-with-it/ Optimizing javascript/jQuery loading time, a beginner’s guide So you created that nice website or web application and would like to go a step further in optimizing the front-end loading time? With some great free tools you can easily optimize your javascript to load 2 or 3 times…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/optimizing-javascriptjquery-loading-time-a-beginners-guide/ Form Validation Engine 1.7 Online It’s been a long time since I updated the validation engine. In this release the engine get a very small code overhaul, a fix to the inline ajax validation and also, and more importantly, a new feature makes its entrance:

Validation…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/news/form-validation-engine-1-7-online/ Create an interactive Google map widget with jQuery Believe it or not, I rarely had to deal with the javascript Google map api, well until recently. Last week I had to create an interactive map with markers and info bubbles taken from html elements in an address list.…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/create-an-interactive-google-map-widget-with-a-list-filter-and-a-map-helper-class/ $.extend and $.data, more than just internal jQuery methods Even if I have been doing jQuery for quite sometime, I always find new cool stuff that I never used before. There is a lot of secret gems in jQuery and I wanted to go a bit deeper with 2…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/extend-and-data-more-than-just-internal-jquery-methods/ Crockford on JavaScript Good morning everyone, having a slow day at work? take the time to listen to these videos, or just put them in background while you work!

“During the past three months, Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford delivered a series of public…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/news/crockford-on-javascript/ Cool web projects that will energize you Sometimes there are projects that are just way cooler than yours. In this spirit, I wanted to highlights some projects that just flabbergast me. I tried to put more down to earth projects than just “experimental stuff”.

Vanthia

Vanthia is just a browser MMO…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/news/cool-web-projects-that-will-energize-you/ Using the jQuery AOP plugin to debug your javascript Debugging javascript code is not always easy, you have your normal programming flow, but you also have a bunch of event listeners attached to DOM elements that do not really follow a specific pattern.

Hunting listeners in JS files can be…

]]> http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/using-the-jquery-aop-plugin-to-better-debug-your-javascript/ A javascript module framework starter This is the following article to part 1 on javascript patterns.

A namespace to rule them all

This is a small javascript framework that I use for starting my javascript/jQuery project. I think it could be most beneficial for those coming from…

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