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Compiling Clojure to javascript pt 1
this is the first entry in an n-part series explaining the techniques and design principles of ClojureScript . translations: [ 日本語 ]
Tilt: Visualize your web page's DOM in 3D
Tilt is a Firefox extension that lets you visualize any web page DOM tree in 3D. It is being developed by Victor Porof (3D developer responsible with the Firefox extension ...
JS is Assembly Language for the Web: Brendan Eich, Crockford, & others comment
UPDATE: Check out the Podcast I did with Erik Meijer on Hanselminutes this week ...
lloyd.io - How BrowserID Works
lloyd.io is the personal website of Lloyd Hilaiel, a software engineer who lives in Denver, Colorado.
Why the #AskObama tweet was garbled on screen
UPDATE: The contractor/vendor that made the software commented on Hacker News ...
Create a Game Character with HTML5 and JavaScript
William Malone: Part 1 in a journey in developing a game character.
Why WSJ Mobile App Gets 2 Star Customer Reviews
A confusing startup screen that offends existing subscribers dooms The Wall Street Journal's iPhone app to low ratings.
Web Intents - the future of web apps
Web Intents is a new project designed to solve the problem of web application integration. Inspired by Android's intent system, it allows developers to build features without needing to integrate with every possible 3rd party service. Web Intents lets users choose their preferred service for actions like image editing…
Pure CSS GUI icons (experimental)
84 GUI icons created with CSS
CSS3 Isometric text
not much at the moment
Faster JavaScript parsing
Over the past year or so I’ve almost doubled the speed of SpiderMonkey’s JavaScript parser. I did this by speeding up both the scanner ( bug 564369 , bug 584595 , bug 588648 , bug 639420 , bug 645598 ) and the parser ( bug 637549 ). I used patch stacks in several of those bugs, and so in those six bugs I actually…