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Google Closure: How not to write JavaScript

Nov 13th, 2009
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Dmitry Baranovskiy, the creator of the Raphaël and gRaphaël JavaScript libraries has serious criticism against the Google Closure JS library.
According to Dmitry:

“It’s a JavaScript library written by Java developers who clearly don’t get JavaScript.”
poorly optimized loops and unoptimized switch statements
memory caching with unlimited size: “I’m not sure what this pattern is called in Java, but [...]

Active Desktop replacement with Adobe AIR

Nov 12th, 2009
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Interested in simulating XP’s Active Desktop without Active Desktop? We’ve had taken the challenge!
Why?
One of our clients wanted a central web application running on the desktop which provides nearly realtime business information for more than a hundred users in a company. After some discussion with the company’s IT staff we’ve chosen Active Desktop as all [...]

Google releases Closure, the tools behind the JS geniuses

Nov 6th, 2009
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Google released Closure, the library and toolset that powers Docs and other Google products.
Closure includes:

Closure Compiler – removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what’s left, checks syntax, variable references and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls.
Closure Library – a JS library with widgets, controls, lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data [...]

Opera and iGoogle: do you want your Tab key back?

Apr 29th, 2009
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In case you’re using Google Search with your Google account logged in you may have already seen the iGoogle features like Promote, Remove or Comment.
They may be cool in some cases, however, these icons break the keyboard navigation on a Google result page: they just steal your Tab key, which is the fastest way of [...]

Are there problems with floating point in JavaScript?

Mar 10th, 2009
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JavaScript is a mature language (holding mature issues), though tomorrow I’ve ran into something that’s out of this world:
<script type=”text/javascript”>
document.write( 0.1 + 0.2 );
document.write( ‘<br />’ );
document.write( 0.1 + 0.2 === 0.3 );
</script>
Guess what?
0.30000000000000004
false
Well, not exactly the result I’ve expected.
However, the issue is absolutely not unknown neither new: many languages (including C) have similar issues [...]