The future of friendlybit.com
The future of friendlybit.com
It’s vacation time and you’re allowed to lean back and just relax. A blog it’s always there though, you post to it on your spare time, and as soon as you have some a little glitch in your schedule you need to consider blogging. It’s a full time job. Current situation I use Friendly Bit as […]
@media Ajax London, here I come
Just a short note that I’ll be attending @media Ajax London, 19th-20th November. If you see me, come by and say hello!
Spotify is a lot like…
Hi. Today I want to tell you about a music player called Spotify, that I like. What does that have to do with web development? Nothing, that’s why it’s in the “other” category 
Anyway. Spotify is a lot like Pandora, you know that music player that runs as a flash applet and suggests music based […]
Safari now available on Windows
Hi, this is just a short post to let you know that Safari is now available on windows. It’s was unveiled at the World Wide Developer Conference 2007 by Steve jobs himself. I can’t stress enough how important this is for all Safari users. Most developers still use Windows when developing web sites (it’s changing, […]
Javascript CSS Selector Engine Timeline
Paul Irish put together a bit of history in the form of the Javascript CSS selector engine timeline which shows us that “selector processing power has gone from Pinto power to a Mustang GT 500.”. 2003.03.25: document.getElementsBySelector() by Simon Willison (later used in behaviour.js) [source] 2005.08.19: CssQuery(): by Dean Edwards [source] 2005.08.22: jSelect (precursor to […]
Paul Irish put together a bit of history in the form of the Javascript CSS selector engine timeline which shows us that “selector processing power has gone from Pinto power to a Mustang GT 500.”.
- 2003.03.25: document.getElementsBySelector() by Simon Willison (later used in behaviour.js) [source]
- 2005.08.19: CssQuery(): by Dean Edwards [source]
- 2005.08.22: jSelect (precursor to jQuery) [source]
- 2006.01.18: Prototype. Initial release of selector engine. [source]
- 2006.03.21: jQuery first release. [source]
- 2006.04.04: moo.dom (precursor to mootools) [source]
- 2006.08.26: jQuery 1.0 [source]
- 2006.11.14: Mochikit Selector. (orig. ported from prototype) [source]
- 2007.01.08: jQuery 1.1a (”10-20x faster than 1.0″) [source]
- 2007.01.11: DomQuery by Jack Slocum (ExtJS). [source]
- 2007.02.05: dojo.query(). [source]
- 2007.05.01: Prototype 1.5.1 [source]
- 2007.05.07: Mootools 1.1 [source]
- 2007.07.01: jQuery 1.1.3 (”800% faster”) [source]
- 2007.07.10: Ext 1.1 RC1 [source]
- 2007.12.04: YUI 2.4.0 [source]
Thanks to all of the innovations along the way, and to Paul to putting this together.
I’m an interface developer
In his latest post Roger Johansson asks the question Are we designers or developers?. I have a simple answer for that. None of them. Let me explain: First we have these people calling themselves developers. And boy do they know programming… and math… and… no that’s all. Many have a masters degree in computer science, a […]