http://www.jsmag.com/blog Javascript Magazine for Javascript developers Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:07:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (no podcast this week - Boo! Check back next week) Chrome for Android Google has just released a beta of Chrome for Android, which is available for those running Android Ice Cream Sandwich (aka "the 1%"). This isn't JavaScript-specific news per se, but it is HUGE news for web devs ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2012/02/news-roundup-chrome-for-android-ascii-fluid-dynamics-node-js-doing-life-wrong/ Listen to this week's podcast (February 6, 2012) psd.js psd.js is the beginnings of a Photoshop PSD parser in JavaScript! Right now it only essentially extracts metadata information - such as image size and layer information - but it's off to a good start! You can even drag and drop ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2012/02/news-roundup-psd-js-turn-js-ryan-dahl-steps-down-from-node-js/ Listen to this week's news roundup (January 30, 2012) I really should have named today's update "Planes, Trains and Automobiles", since those were all involved with my commute this unusual morning! This week's podcasts is surely enough recorded from SFO Airport, so I hope you enjoy the atmosphere and the ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2012/01/news-roundup-enyo-js-jed-html5-please-wat/ Listen to this week's podcast (January 20, 2012)! iOS Orientationchange Fix jQuery Mobile's Scott Jehl has released iOS-Orientationchange-Fix (read his blog post). This has been a persistent annoyance on iOS since its release. You may be familiar with the mobile viewport tag, which allows you to properly fit sites to ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2012/01/news-roundup-ios-orientationchange-fix-javascript-patterns-jq-mobile/ Hello there, it's been a while! Oh dear, another year has passed. And it seems that I've been stocking up a year's supply of JavaScript tidbits to dump on the unsuspecting populace! Ok, not quite, but I do have quite a backlog, that's somewhat in chronological order, ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2012/01/news-roundup-tons-o-links-for-the-new-year/ Listen to the podcast for November 11, 2011 insertAdjacentHTML Mozilla has a nice overview of insertAdjacentHTML, a DOM function that's intended to supplement innerHTML. It's a bit less destructive and plays nicely with content that's already in the DOM. For instance, whereas innerHTML completely blows away whatever is inside the ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2011/11/news-roundup-11-11-11-insertadjacenthtml-classes-in-javascript-twilight-of-flash-and-silverlight-yahoo-cocktails/ Listen to this week's podcast (October 29, 2011) (23:05 minutes) I'm trying a little something different this week. I hope you guys like pictures. :) Brenden Eich + "I Like Ike" mashup by @lonnen 140 byte synthesizer A while back Jed Schmidt created a simple little project on GitHub called 140 bytes ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2011/10/news-roundup-i-like-eich-140-byte-synthesizer-an-end-to-negativity-sencha-touch-2-0-dart-again/ This week's podcast (I was hoping to keep it short, but I kept talking and talking... sorry!) Libraries, frameworks, and code Cube - open-source visualization for time series data chainvas - chaining sugar for Canvas JS-Forth: Forth Interpreter in JavaScript when.js is a lightweight Promises and when() implementation (from CommonJS) MongoSpy is a MongoDB monitor that ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2011/10/news-roundup-node-causes-cancer-node-cures-cancer/ Listen to this week's podcast (Podcast edit: I mistakenly mention Respond.js, which is actually a media query polyfill - I'm actually talking about Responsive images) Google Dart By far the biggest news of the week isn't JavaScript, but rather a language called Dart (formerly Dash?), which certain factions within Google hope will replace ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2011/09/news-roundup-javascript-under-attack/ Listen to this week's podcast (September 9, 2011) Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture Patterns For Large-Scale JavaScript Application Architecture is a lengthy article by Addy Osmani detailing some basic principles of writing a large-scale JavaScript application. It's inspired by a classic Nicholas Zakas talk outlining some of the same principles ... http://www.jsmag.com/blog/2011/09/news-roundup-deck-js-yahoo-kills-off-maps-api-patterns-for-large-scale-javascript-application-architecture/