Browsing JavaScript

Processing.js John Resig has ported the Processing visualization language to 5k lines of JavaScript. Exclamation point. Seriously. 

Qualified Selectors in jQuery John Resig with a simple two-line plugin for jQuery that maps the proposed qualified selector syntax to the similar and already implemented (in jQuery) :has selector. 

FancyZoom 1.0 Panic co-founder Cabel Sasser finally releases his super-smooth, Mac-esque in-line-thumbnail-to-full-size-image JavaScript-zoomer. (That was a-lot-of-dashes.) 

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id vs. name and IE From the Archive (you might want to toggle high contrast before visiting). Recently ran into this problem again on my About page—in IE7 even. <meta name="author" value="Shaun Inman"> was eclipsing <h1 id="author"> when using getElementById('author'). The solution? Change the id on the h1. Two hips and a hooray for the glacial pace of progress. 

Cross-Pollination: Breeding a Better Web Vote for our proposed presentation using the SXSW Panel Picker. Dan Mall, presentation mastermind and partner-in-crime, has additional info and is soliciting ideas on ways to expand the conversation. 

Simon Willison on jQuery An accessible primer for JavaScript programmers who have put off looking into jQuery. Also via Simon’s site, Learning jQuery. 

Syncotype and Syncotype-Alt, tools for raising the baseline of web typography. 

Making Wii-friendly Pages A reasonably thorough review of the Wii Browser’s capabilities over at Dev.Opera. 

Seven JavaScript Techniques Dustin Diaz in Digital Web with some clever tips for novice and pro JavaScripters alike.