Category Archives: Web Development

Last year, I was honored to be asked by Yahoo! engineer Nicholas Zakas whether I would be interested in contributing a chapter to an upcoming book about JavaScript performance. Well, after many months of hard labor by an impressive line … Continue reading →

The Input Prompt pattern consists in prefilling a text field with a prompt as a way of supplying help information for controls whose purpose or format may not be immediately clear. In the browser, this pattern is most often implemented … Continue reading →

I am pleased to announce that the YUI Compressor is now hosted on GitHub. Hopefully, this move will make the external contribution process more streamlined. Have fun coding!

If you haven’t done so already, head over to the YUI Blog for the official announcement. I am proud to have made a (very modest) recent contribution to the library by porting the browser history utility to YUI3 (take a … Continue reading →

The YUI Compressor uses a slightly modified version of the parser used in the Rhino JavaScript engine. The reason for modifying the parser came from the need to support JScript conditional comments, unescaped forward slashes in regular expressions — which … Continue reading →

I will be speaking at the Velocity Conference 2008 alongside my buddies and former co-workers Steve Souders and Bill Scott. The conference takes place on Monday, June 23 in Burlingame, CA. The topic of my presentation is High Performance Ajax … Continue reading →

Douglas Crockford just published his first book titled JavaScript: The Good Parts. After reading this book, some of you may be left with the impression that Douglas is always complaining about some aspect of this very popular programming language. However, … Continue reading →

This new version of the compressor fixes a few bugs and implements a few additional micro optimizations. Please refer to the CHANGELOG file for a complete list of changes, and don’t hesitate to report any issue you may experience with … Continue reading →

A few days ago, I gave a talk at Yahoo! about High Performance Ajax Applications. Eric Miraglia, from the YUI team, and Ricky Montalvo, from the Yahoo! Developer Network, were kind enough to shoot the video, edit it, and put … Continue reading →