A couple of weeks ago it seemed my daily business became sorting DOMElements. This quickly became boring enough to be investigated more thoroughly. So this post sums up everything you should know about sorting DOMElements in Javascript (… using jQuery, of course).
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»It works!« is a state any piece of code needs to achieve. It's the goal most developers have in order to get the job done. But sadly »It works!« is more often than not, simply insufficient. It's a state that's only true for the moment. This post explains a few problems found in your average jQuery-based code.
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You probably know all about rolling your own plugins for jQuery. But did you know that some core jQuery functions have their own "plugin API" called "hooks"?
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Click events are a godsend from hell. Here's how you can avoid at least one of the many problems they bring to the table: the end of a drag is not a click.
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URI.js is a Javascript library for working with URLs (without going insane or shooting yourself in the head). It was released in the last week of 2011. Here's some background from a week after launch.
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