So here is where I rant. Here's where I've had enough of it. It may actually be the tipping point. Whatever. Feel free to skip this one. I'll try not to hurt your feelings. Let's start with a confession; I've entered the js realm on a serious leve...
I often find myself coding a loop where I fetch some data and the loop depends on whether there was any data left. Those loops must always be entered at least once (because we always need the first check for more data). In JS we currently have two...
I've been playing with this for over a year now. This seems to me like an extension to the language that would be welcomed by a lot of people. The basic idea is that you get an alternative syntax for data structures. Of course the most important cont...
Nope, not a blog post on the tabs-vs-spaces war. This is a blog post about my demo for this year's js1k! Alright. So I'm writing a demo for js1k. The first time my entry was http://qfox.nl/weblog/210 a brainfuck interpreter . It was more o...
There's currently no way of introducing anything new into the language that breaks syntax. I think that point has been made very clearly with harmony/es6. Can we introduce a way to make these transitions easier in the future? [i]This proposal is a...
There's been a lot of discussion about vendor prefixes. I think the community is a bit torn over them. They were fun when one browser was actively implementing them but then more started to do it and it just became a hassle. At least, that's the gene...
Let's just get right down to it. There's a lot of debate about class syntax in the next version of JS. Here's my two cents. Who knows, maybe somebody actually likes its simplicity and easy learning curve. There are some notes below. Simple classes...
About three months ago I switched from Windows to Linux completely, pretty much cold turkey. I basically switched to Linux because I wanted to for a while and I encountered some problem for the ... no wait, I had attracted a virus and had to do a rei...
The js community is a large but relatively small group of people that love the language and wish to promote it to the rest of the world. We want to convince the generation of C and even Java that js has matured to the level where it can actually comp...
Good book, especially if you're new to the whole HTML5 thing or need to read up on certain API's. This is a book by Klaus Förster and Bernd Öggl from 2011 (recent!). Unfortunately the marvellous cover artwork was not repeated in the book, I liked i...