Posted in Development on Jun 16th, 2008 1 Comment »
Following up on Antranig’s recent post about performance, I’d like to address the issue of code design and its relationship to performance. Antranig’s article is very comprehensive and well-considered, and it provides us with a number of guidelines for balancing the tradeoffs between code quality and speed. However, I was surprised that he didn’t remind […]
Posted in Development, Technology on May 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Recently, I expressed to Colin the sense of “disorientation” every Java (or other “traditional”) programmer must feel at diving into the client side and trying to write idiomatic, performant code. Every reasonable coder quickly develops a “gut” feeling for the costs (both in design, and resources) for the various primitives they have at their disposal. […]
Posted in Uncategorized, Development on May 29th, 2008 No Comments »
We’re really close to putting out Fluid Infusion 0.3. It’ll be ready in a few days, and is shaping up to be a pretty solid release. In addition to a preview version of the Uploader, we’ve really improved the user experience and functionality of the Reorderer. We’ve added sortable layouts, customizable drag-and-drop interactions, and support […]
Posted in Development, Accessibility on Apr 20th, 2008 3 Comments »
For some time now, I’ve wanted to update everyone on Fluid’s recommendations regarding JavaScript toolkits. We’ve done a lot of research and evaluation of various open source products, and have chosen jQuery as our favoured toolkit. We think the accessibility plugins and utilities we’ve been writing with jQuery will be useful to a wide range […]
Posted in Development, Accessibility on Jan 11th, 2008 4 Comments »
In follow up to Simon’s recent posting about the intricacies of cross-browser support for the tabindex attribute, I’ve written a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to get, set, and check for the presence of tabindex values.
Getting the Source Code
The source code is currently available in the Fluid Project SVN, and will be included in […]
Posted in Development, Design, Community on Oct 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Two weeks ago we held the first Fluid Summit meeting here in Toronto. It was a resounding success, and I’d like to thank everyone who attended and brought their ideas and proposals to the table. We had a very full week of planning, coding, and designing. Members of the Sakai, uPortal, Moodle, and Kuali […]