JavaScript

From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference:

Jeffrey Way takes a variety of common jQuery tasks, and converts them to both modern and legacy JavaScript. Very handy if you’re more comfortable with jQuery than native JavaScript and want to pick up some techniques.

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The Top 12 JavaScript MVC Frameworks Reviewed:

Can’t remember the pros and cons of all those frameworks like Spine, Sammy, Sproutcore, Backbone, and the rest? Gordon L. Hempton runs through 12 of the most popular, lists their pros and cons, and picks Ember.js as his ultimate winner

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Steve Souders on JavaScript Performance

Steve Souders, Googler and general Web performance optimization guru, recently gave a talk at SFJS about the performance of asynchronous JavaScript loading in the browser. Here are the slides which, luckily, can mostly stand on their own.

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C&C - HTML5 v0.3b

As a huge fan of both JavaScript and the Command & Conquer games, I’m extremely impressed.

Aditya Shankar has built an intriguing reproduction of the 90s real time strategy game Command and Conquer using HTML5 and JavaScript. It takes a while to load, but it plays, and there’s a link to an article about how he developed it.

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How to Get Gravatar Images from E-mail Addresses with JavaScript

Darcy Clarke presents the code and a video demonstration for grabbing user avatars (based on their e-mail address) from the popular Gravatar service.

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