Very special irregularities, inconsistencies in Javascript
Another helpful tool for web devs - This is a collection of those very special irregularities, inconsistencies in Javascript via http://wtfjs.com/about
JS isn’t the solution for CSS Sprites
Always trying to better my skills and try new things I’ve been fiddling with various ways to approach CSS Sprite creation including JS solutions, which are just way to complicated for me at this point to even wrap my head around.
This week a coworker overheard me talking with a designer about sprites and remembered this neat application.
Enter TexturePacker.
I took it for a spin and man it’s worth the small investment of 25$.
The big question now is how long does it take you to create sprites and what’s your time worth to you?
I thought this was a good read for noobs trying to understand javascript basics. Oh wait, that’s me :-P
This is one extensive writeup. It’s a beast of a read or at least it was for me, but worth the time.
Hearing other’s explain their own ah ha moment’s is coming in handy with my own JS development. And lots of great links are also included.
It’s all in the small details.
When working with Javascript you really have to think about the small things. Those small things will ultimately lead to building your script.
Visualize it!
Shockingly I don’t know why I never thought of looking for Javascript tutorials using visuals since those are my origins.
Enlightened by the script
So I haven’t been able to read my amazing books on Javascript, but instead have been forced to delve directly into Javascript that’s being used on a site I work on. And I gotta say looking at Javascript on a day to day definitely forces you to figure things out.
Here are some ways you can start tomorrow:
- I’d recommend using a developer tool within your browser to start off.
- If you’re using Firefox you gotta go with Firebug, which to date is my favorite tool.
- If you’re using Chrome, Safari or the super amazing Internet Explorer than you should use their own developer tools.
- See how things work.
But if you wish to start off even more basic. Pop open the source code and than take a look at the .js file(s) included in the source code.
For me, reading the intro to a few books has given me a little bit of a foundation to have a nice starting point to a least have a small idea as to what things like || or && mean.
Here’s what I have in my bookshelf:
I am going to attempt to cover another basic concept in my next post.
DOM DOM DOM DOM…
So this is not the topic I was planning on covering, but I finally read something that made it click. The DOM is nothing more than a family tree. With the <html> tag being the parent to everything on a webpage. Than you’ve got all the kids and their kids and their kids kids. Who needs ancestry dot com when you’ve got the DOM.
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