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PPK vs Degrassi Junior High

Friday, November 27, 2009


Shocking discovery uncovered by Henry.

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The road to jQuery 1.4: at a glance

Friday, November 20, 2009

Ok, here’s something you’ll want to refer to daily… the current status of the jQuery 1.4 “TODO list”, or as I like to call it, “Report 37“. Usually when people on the jQuery dev lists ask “When will jQuery 1.4 be ready?” they are met with a resigned (resigned not resiged) answer: “When it’s ready”. But we don’t have to take that kind of glib-ness anymore…

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Selecting JavaScript objects with jQuery

Saturday, November 14, 2009

After a bit of prodding around I’ve not only found out that selecting JavaScript objects and arrays with jQuery is fully supported, but there are also some potential use cases! It all started a couple of weeks ago when I thought it would be cool to bind custom events to actual JavaScript objects.

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Decision making

Saturday, November 7, 2009
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Using jQuery on JavaScript objects (Part 1)

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Today I was trying to decouple some JavaScript classes in a game prototype I’ve been working on. I didn’t want to get into implementing some kind of interface behaviour, and so I thought about a simple Observer pattern. There are a bunch of solutions around the tubes (and indeed I’ll probably use one of them) but I started wishing I could just use jQuery’s custom events directly on my JavaScript classes.

This idea seemed pretty wacky to me, and made me smile: jQuery events attach themselves to DOM elements – wrapping a JavaScript object in the jQuery selector seemed ludicrous – I mean, should I be able to do $(class).hide()?! No, of course not. But none the less, my curiosity got the better of me, and I tried this lil’ snippet:
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