javascript

5 jQuery optimization tips from jsPerf

Apr 04

jQuery is a wonderful library that offers a massive amount of functionality in a nicely wrapped up package. But jQuery is quite bloated, with the minified version weighing in at 94kb. If you’re micro-optimizing, any of these little tips should help to squeeze out the hidden milliseconds on load/run time.

Lucikly there is a website called jsperf.com which allows you to test & compare different blocks of code against each other, and see the results of each – recording how fast each block ran in which browser. Here are some simple but handy tips.

Mozilla releases open-source, browser-based MMO “BrowserQuest”

Mar 27

To show off the massive potential of browser-based games, Mozilla and Little Workshop recently released an open-source, browser-based massively multiplayer online game, BrowserQuest with the standard MMO mechanics you’d expect: chat, loot, mobs and more.

6 jQuery plugins that are a little bit different

Jan 31

When looking for a jQuery plugin, it can often get a bit tedious scrolling through page after page of scrollers, carousels and crop tools. At one point I ran into an article named “28 Useful JQuery Sliders You Need To Download”. Twenty-eight?! Blimey.

So, to prove to myself that there was more to jQuery than content scrollers, I did some Google’ing and found 6 really unique jQuery plugins/extensions that are worth taking a look at.