James Edwards gets excited about the new MutationObserver API, and talks about how and why it's come to replace Mutation Events.Read More
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After spending hours, maybe days, putting the finishing touches on an awesome new feature for your web application, you’re finally ready to see it in action. You add the new code to your... Read More
Mozilla has been hard at work on their new operating system, Firefox OS. This week they took another step towards legitimacy with the announcement of developer preview devices – known as the... Read More
For all of you jQuery plugin developers out there, we have some exciting news to announce. The new jQuery Plugin Registry site recently went live. This new site replaces the old plugin registry, and... Read More
LiveConnect is a technique that allows Java and JavaScript to communicate with each other. It allows your Java class to call JavaScript methods and access the JavaScript environment. JavaScript can... Read More
The HTML5 <details> element is a very neat construct, but it also has quite a serious usability problem – what happens if you follow a hash-link which targets inside a collapsed... Read More
The holidays are upon us. To help you get into the mood, I’ve created an HTML5/CoffeeScript application that presents a festive and animated scene (with background music). Although this... Read More
JavaScript has prototypes, and prototypes are weird. So weird, in fact, that some languages (like CoffeeScript) that compile down to JavaScript try to paper over this fact in an attempt to present a... Read More
Unit testing and Test Driven Development (TDD) are common paradigms nowadays. If you are a JavaScript developer, Google has created and open sourced a great tool called js-test-driver to help with... Read More
In previous articles, I’ve focused on creating a Node.js server to handle HTTP requests. This article looks at the problem in reverse, by showing you how to make HTTP requests from your Node.js... Read More
SitePoint is releasing its new book, Jump Start Node.js, tomorrow. In celebration of the book launch, JSPro is bringing you a special Node.js article today. Today’s article will teach you how... Read More
Recently on JSPro I wrote about a modular design patterns, with four different member types providing a high-degree of flexibility over how a script is organised. In this follow-up article,... Read More
