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SOPA Protest Today

seangw — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:09:58 +0000

It seems like quite a number of sites have joined in the SOPA protest. Some interesting one’s that I’ve seen have been: Google Given their high profile, I was happy to see the logo was blacked out today in protest of SOPA. Ars Technica I like the way they blended a protest, with staying functional. [...]

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SOPA Blackout JS

seangw — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:27:25 +0000

On January 18th, this site, among many others will “Blackout” in protest of SOPA. The date is chosen, because that is the day that some technology leaders are appearing at a congressional hearing. We hope they can convey the idiocy of the bill. To join the protest, just put the following line of code on [...]

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John Resig’s thoughts on Javascript as a First Language

seangw — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 17:50:24 +0000

John Resig posted on his site today, Javascript as a First Language. His thoughts on why Javascript is a good fundamental programming language are interesting. This is in reference to using it at Khan Academy to introduce computer programming. For those who don’t know, Khan Academy is an amazing tool (Bill Gates is a fan [...]

John Resig’s thoughts on Javascript as a First Language is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

HTTP Archive: Average Webpage now 965 KB (up 30%) in 2011

seangw — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:31:54 +0000

ExtremeTech published an article, The web in 2011: HTML5 dominates Flash, trouble for data capped mobile surfers. From the article: According to new research from HTTP Archive, which regularly scans the internet’s most popular destinations, the average size of a single web page is now 965 kilobytes (KB), up more than 30% from last year’s [...]

HTTP Archive: Average Webpage now 965 KB (up 30%) in 2011 is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library

seangw — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:56:33 +0000

W3Techs published an update to their JS library monthly usage trend, and says that 50% of all websites now use a JavaScript library. jQuery is the top (by a considerable margin) at 41.7% of all websites. Wow! 50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

50% of Websites use a JavaScript Library is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Javascript Console Introduction Video

seangw — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:27:01 +0000

Saw this video and wanted to pass it along. This guy is great at going through some of the fundamental tools we have at our hands as web developers in the Javascript console, that many of us never touch: Javascript Console Introduction Video is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Javascript Console Introduction Video is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Javascript, Dash, Google and our future as Web Developers

seangw — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:25:18 +0000

Dart, is an alternative language to Javascript being developed by Google. Web developers live in an ever changing world of languages, browsers, development kits, and platforms. The recent introduction, and popularity, of “App” development has introduced a serious competitor to the open web. Our world as web developers is about to change. Presumably in October [...]

Javascript, Dash, Google and our future as Web Developers is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

XMLHttpRequest: Learn why Asynchronous is Best

seangw — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 03:40:56 +0000

Ran across an article on MSDN (I know, right?) about the problems with synchronous XMLHttpRequests, and how it actually causes 8.4% of all hangs in IE9. Synchronous is easier to work with, as it flows just like a user would expect. Asynchronous is slightly tougher to use, as it requires handling the response out of [...]

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Week in Web: jQuery Menus, Flowplayer update, Stylesheet removal, drop shadows, Gury, Sliders, etc

seangw — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:03:39 +0000

I’m going to start publishing, every Friday, a list of some useful / interesting links I’ve visited throughout the course of the week. Usually this will involve whatever I am working on at the moment. If you like these links, you can follow me on Twitter to get them as I find them (as opposed [...]

Week in Web: jQuery Menus, Flowplayer update, Stylesheet removal, drop shadows, Gury, Sliders, etc is a post from: Sean Walther's Blog

Beatles, iTunes, iOS 4.2, Google Voice and Mobile Versions of Sites

seangw — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 15:32:31 +0000

Things have been happening very fast in the past week or 2, and wanted to review them. Hopefully, I’ll be covering the following: Beatles on iTunes iTunes 10.1 iOS 4.2 coming soon Google Voice Mobile versions of Sites There’s a lot on my mind, and I haven’t written in a while. Today I get to [...]

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