Now a few weeks removed from a large amount of hand-ringing around the performance of localStorage in browsers, I’ve learned some more about why there was such a concern at Mozilla (which prompted Chris to write his blog post[1]). The post was met with skepticism because it lacked two key components: numbers and a comparison. [...]

Apache Ant[1] is still my favorite tool for creating build systems for my code. Yes, I know there are a lot of shiny new tools written in Node.js or something else, but I’ve used Ant for a long time and have found it easy to teach others. What’s more, it comes installed on Macs and [...]

ECMAScript 5 introduced strict mode to JavaScript. The intent is to allow developers to opt-in to a “better” version of JavaScript, where some of the most common and egregious errors are handled differently. For a while, I was skeptical, especially with only one browser (Firefox) initially supporting strict mode. Fast forward to today, every major [...]

Earlier this week, Chris Heilmann wrote a blog post entitled, There is no simple solution for localStorage[1] in which he decried localStorage as slow and encouraged everyone to stop using it. Surprisingly, in a post about performance, there was no mention of what “slow” or “terrible performance” actually meant. Performance can’t be discussed in a [...]

In the creation of a web site, there are several groups of people who participate: product managers or marketing representatives who are responsible for defining functionality and design, user interface designers who create the actual visuals, and the developers who are responsible for implementing the final product. Of these groups, developers tend to get a [...]

When I first proposed my upcoming book, Maintainable JavaScript, I was offered the chance to review a book on a similar topic. The Art of Readable Code by Dustin Boswell and Trevor Foucher is a book after my own heart. While not strictly about JavaScript, this book delves into the little explored region of code [...]

In my previous post[1], I introduced using CSS media queries in JavaScript both through a custom implementation and using the CSSOM Views matchMedia() method. Media queries are incredibly useful, both in CSS and JavaScript, and so I continued with my research to see how best to take advantage of this capability. As it turns out, [...]

I’m not really sure what I was expecting from The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications. Having learned more about web security in the past year, I suppose I was hoping for a more in-depth treatment of common web application security issues. In my mind, I pictured a chapter on Cross-Site Scripting [...]

I’m very excited to announce that Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, 3rd Edition is now shipping and available in bookstores. Over six years, the first edition was released and it changed my life in ways I never could have anticipated. It was through this book that I ended up at Yahoo! and was invited to [...]

A new version of CSS Lint is now available both on csslint.net and through npm for NodeJS. Version 0.9.2 focused on improving validation support (full support is planned for v1.0.0) and stability. As part of that, 0.9.1 and 0.9.2 were quickly rolled out after 0.9.0 to address some flaws in the validation logic. Other changes [...]