DOM Scripting comments: Standalone selector http://domscripting.com/blog/display/117 The tireless work of John Resig. en Adam Bryson http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1034 Thanks for the info and the link to Firebug.

Wish I could get to Boston but it’s not happening for me this year.

]]> Mon, 22 Sep 2008 06:07:42 GMT Caro http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1033 Ohhh… Yes John is great :)

]]> Tue, 16 Sep 2008 15:37:23 GMT Manir http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1032 I am admiring to John Resig :)

]]> Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:18:34 GMT KeeKee http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1031 I take it John’s best friend is his computer. He really needs to get out just a bit more around something like people maybe, but when he’s at his best is when he’s at his computer apparently. Great stuff.

KeeKee

]]> Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:15:41 GMT Erik http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1030 I’m torn between hero worship of Resig and wanting to murder him and his library spamming ilk for taking all the paying opportunities to actually write your own Javascript off of the market. Sigh… Guess I’ll just have to suck it up or refine and publish my own damn library if I want to continue doing that.

But yeah, he’s a badass and one of the few framework writers whose functions I can’t reverse engineer on sight. Thanks for the book that gave my own JS skill development such a shot in the arm Jeremy. Too bad it all appears to have been for nothing now. Might as well learn variables, loops, and flow control and then just skip all that unnecessary object stuff and learn the libraries.

I think I lost a recommendation from my last employer because I made the mistake of writing my own much more flexible form validation scripts rather than simply dumping the crappy code in that they had on hand and stripping some unnecessary table code one of their other freelancers put in. My mistake for putting standards and UI considerations ahead of just getting it done, but for FFS, who likes getting a JS alert when the field they just put a questionable e-mail address into loses focus? JS alerts for anything other than onclick is like throwing up a brick wall in front of a cyclist.

There are two sayings that irritate the Hell out of me:

"Don’t talk about politics or religion in the bar/pub." - What else do we talk about? Shag carpeting? Celebrities? Sports? Other bars? Bar decor?

and from the developers…

"Don’t reinvent the wheel."

If nobody ever reinvented the wheel we’d be chipping the silly things out of stone. How would we all feel about gas prices if we were still doing that?

]]> Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:57:41 GMT Robert http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1029 Ah - nice idea, I always have the problem to load more code than I really need. But reducing the code is a bit too difficult for my JQ-skills at the moment. I will have a look at the selector engine!

]]> Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:09:48 GMT Patrick http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1027 I wish I would be able to do only half the work…

BTW: Firebug is one my favorite tools for web developement and making some quick changes to websites on the fly… Thanks to John for that.

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:34:31 GMT Jeremy Keith http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1026 Thanks for the update, Karl. That’s really good to hear about the inherent modularisation of jQuery.

]]> Tue, 26 Aug 2008 01:32:40 GMT Karl Swedberg http://domscripting.com/blog/display.php/117#comment1025 Hi Jeremy,

If you download the SVN copy of jQuery, you’ll see in the src directory that the library is already modularized to some extent, with separate files for core, selectors, events, fx, ajax, offset, and dimensions.

It’s not offered that way through the more public channels partly because of the support overhead of having to figure out which components are loaded when someone is having problems getting something to work.

Also, an update: the jQuery conference registration is now closed. We maxed out the number of attendees that the venue can hold.

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