In preparing for the final release of Fluid Infusion 0.6 (as of writing, we are at “Bug Parade” stage, leading to code freeze for Monday), we found ourselves with the disagreeable requirement to make some incompatible API changes to a part of the framework. Not only why we had to do this, but what we [...]

There are many ways of finding things in the DOM - sometimes, many ways of evaluating apparently the same expression. For example, CSS and JQuery allow you to find elements by id, using an expression of the form
var myElement=$(”#my-element-id”);
as well as the apparently equivalent expression
var myElement=$(”[id=my-element-id]“);
However, these expressions are different in [...]

In the interests of aiming towards slightly more bite-sized blog postings, I thought I would share with you some possibly unsuspected gems in a favorite JQuery method I kicked over recently.
Basic extending
jQuery.extend is more commonly seen as part of plugin code - the jQuery plugin model simply works by “extension” of the jQuery object itself [...]

This posting will be about the different styles of creating “components” or “objects” in Javascript, and which styles Fluid is planning to recommend and in what contexts.
Javascript has inherited an “infusion” of “object-oriented” features grafted at the last moment on its fairly minimal and clear (LISP-inspired) baseline. The resulting language simply has too many ways [...]

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. [...]