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Recent Blog Comments By Atleb

• Writing A RequireJS Plugin To Load Remote jQuery Templates

  Posted on Nov 12, 2011 at 6:40 AM

  @Ben, As kong as your have sites / solutions that you might want to be snappy on mobile as well, chances are pretty good that one js file will be better. As long as you minify and gzip the actual dl size should counter the overhead of an extra network connection :) IMHO, main reason f... read more »

• Writing A RequireJS Plugin To Load Remote jQuery Templates

  Posted on Nov 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM

  ...make my day! Cool image, must be first time I've seen it :) Interesting post and experiment, especially the idea of "just" wrapping the existing module for your own special use case - thereby saving dev time and like you said network request. So, where do you go from her... read more »

• Appending An Array Of jQuery Objects To The DOM

  Posted on Oct 8, 2011 at 6:08 AM

  Interesting plugin, One question though - why use an array as a holder, rather than a jQ object? If you are going to be inserting one by one anyways, why not replace Buffer with an "off DOM" $(ul) ? then you could just replace or reposition it into the page context as... read more »

• Experimenting With A Stateful Class For Stateful User Interface (UI) Widgets

  Posted on Sep 12, 2011 at 10:28 AM

  @Ben, looking at it (backbone) a bit myself for the fun and learning (at least initially) nice blog post over here http://backbonefu.com/2011/08/front-end-d... read more »

• Win A Copy Of JavaScript Enlightenment By Cody Lindley

  Posted on Aug 25, 2011 at 3:11 PM

  Calling me crazy - i prefer enlightened in a different shade - but Cody is getting his well deserved $15 directly anyway! :)... read more »

• Experimenting With A Stateful Class For Stateful User Interface (UI) Widgets

  Posted on Aug 24, 2011 at 4:23 PM

  Interesting rework, Out of curiosity, how would youmcompare that model to something more generic like the dojo.stateful Http://www.site pen.com/blog/2010/05/04/consistent-interaction-with-stateful-objects-in-dojo Where you are listening to not events, but states - ie simple or... read more »

• Thinking About Encapsulation And Direct Object References

  Posted on Jun 14, 2011 at 2:11 PM

  @Ben, ten page history of web and js, thirty page summary og JS Patterns (more or less ;D ) ten page jQ overview twenty page on ExtJS - interesting since I haven't really tested it then 30 on testing (good so far), before the "real" book begins - local storag... read more »

• Thinking About Encapsulation And Direct Object References

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 11:53 AM

  @Ben, i'm clearly an O'reilly discount junkie :) currently reading Programming HTML5 Applications (another early access slated for this fall), with Gamestorming and Building web Reputation Systems in the digital queue. retail cost for the books over here is around $50 and up... read more »

• Thinking About Encapsulation And Direct Object References

  Posted on Jun 13, 2011 at 7:15 AM

  Interesting post, nerd to Get the js app book synced up and start reading it, Coming from a c++ then java that has "degraded" into mostly jsp and front end, I think the issues you raise are part of the reason for the bad rep that JS as a serious language has had It is reall... read more »

• Experimenting With Node.js And Server-Side Javascript

  Posted on Apr 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM

  finally got around to trying the test for myself, had to make some minor changes to the code to get it running on node .46 (response.writeHead and .end rather than -close) can really see how this could be useful for small dedicated apps alongside existing server side solutions - not... read more »

• Overloading Javascript Functions Using A Sub-Function Approach

  Posted on Sep 11, 2010 at 6:21 PM

  Nice thoughts on the subject, A good use-case for overloading is when you are dealing with google maps, making a constructor for the market with assorted options (lat, lng, icon, text, function) Seem to recall reading a post by jresig on the array approach, along the lines of the read more »

• Using The Cache Manifest With iPhone's App Mode For "Native" Web Applications

  Posted on Jun 27, 2010 at 5:41 PM

  @Ben Nadel, yeah - just read about the Sencha Touch extension, and how it was aimed a bit more at tablets rather than smartphones (iPhones) http://www.sencha.com/blog/2... read more »

• Using The Cache Manifest With iPhone's App Mode For "Native" Web Applications

  Posted on Jun 23, 2010 at 8:19 AM

  Nice couple of experiments here, love the way you builld and think ypur way through a concept over time rather than just jump to "solutions" You can actually build it a lot further easily with the jqtouch extension, like the chapter at read more »