Posts Tagged ‘jquery’


Browser Detection In JavaScript Libraries

I was curious what browser detection in various JS libraries look like. While we always try to avoid doing browser detection, it’s sometimes a necessary evil. Here’s what I found.

Monday, November 30th, 2009 Posted in Mozilla, Web Development | 11 Comments »

WhiteHouse.gov Goes Open Source

I noted in January that WhiteHouse.gov relaunched for the Obama administration using a closed source infrastructure (it was using ASP.NET on IIS 6.0) running a proprietary CMS.
It has now relaunched using open source Drupal. Also interesting is that it’s no longer broadcasting any headers regarding it’s server. Considering Drupal is by far [...]

Sunday, October 25th, 2009 Posted in Mozilla, Open Source, Politics | 2 Comments »

Whitehouse.gov Analysis

A few notes on the new whitehouse.gov website as I did for the campaign sites after about 5 minutes of sniffing around:

Running Microsoft-IIS 6.0 and ASP.NET 2.0.50727. The Bush administration ran Apache on what I think was some sort of Unix. Data is gzip’d.
Whitehouse.gov is using Akamai as a CDN and for DNS [...]

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 Posted in In The News, Internet, Politics | 5 Comments »

jQuery

Pretty big news from the jQuery camp today. Both Microsoft and Nokia will be making it part of their development platforms.
Extra interesting is that they aren’t forking, but utilizing the existing code under the same license, and will contribute and participate like everyone else.
I’ve been using jQuery on sites for quite a while now [...]

Sunday, September 28th, 2008 Posted in Web Development | No Comments »

Shaver on Silly Season

Shaver’s got some interesting thoughts on silly season (prior reading, highly recommended). My favorite is this little nugget:

If you choose a platform that needs tools, if you give up the viral soft collaboration of View Source and copy-and-paste mashups and being able to jam jQuery in the hole that used to have Prototype in [...]

Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Open Source | No Comments »

Fuller Screen Mode

Daniel Glazman is at it again, this time with Fuller Screen Mode. This has serious potential for anyone who ever has to do a presentation. I’ve had it in the back of my mind for a while. With a copy of Firefox, you now have full screen presentations that look great. [...]

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007 Posted in Mozilla, Software | 2 Comments »