elijahmanor

NOTE: This post is a sibling post to... Natively Format JavaScript Dates and Times https://elijahmanor.com/format-js-dates-and-times

Nice, I'm always on the lookout for a new todo app

Nice, Icenium looks like a good option

Yeah, I was about to add that too. Sad, but fun to play with until it is gone ;)

You are correct in that jQuery doesn't re-query the DOM for elements on each call, but what it does do is re-loop through it's internal cached collection to apply these CSS rules. The perf hit isn't noticeable when jQuery's selection (internal collection) is small. Imagine a webpage with lots of elements you want to select and then want to interact with... that is what I am trying to bring attention to.

Nice point about the object loop. I would image though that the object would have relatively few properties whereas the number of DOM elements in the jQuery collection could vary dramatically based on the UI (think a long list of list items).

I find TypeScript to be an exciting new take on the language. I look forward to using it more this year. Thanks for your post and your PluralSight course

yeah, and the feelings often are true no matter how many times you've upgraded in the past... especially the fear and possibly the anger, but hopefully happy ;)

That really rocks! The Hacker News site could really use a make over

No problem. Aaron Powell is a great guy and a smart dude. Yeah, check out his posts ;)

Yeah mockjax is a great library as well. I usually recommend people added mockjax to existing projects, but if it is a new project recommend using amplify.request. The amplify.request piece enables you to do some things you can't easily with mockjax. For example, amplify.request allows you to change the caching strategy in the define statements and not where the request is being made. Also if the data from the server changes you can add a decoder to the define statement to map the data to what your code expects. Or if the data going out changes you can add a dataMap to the define statement to so your main application code doesn't have to change. You can also create a custom request type other than jQuery AJAX (think maybe websockets or Dojo's ajax). I sometimes use mockjax also in a jsFiddle or demo code where I don't want to get into amplify.request and just want to use out of the box jQuery.ajax. Thanks for your comment.

I like how clean the template markup is compared to many others I've tried

Are there other languages other than JavaServer Faces that puts weird characters inside the id attribute of elements?

Ohh yeah, the find symbol feature is very helpful. I primarily use Sublime Text 2 these days (which has a similar feature)

You have a good point. There is a huge TextMate community from the Mac world and for those that aren't as familiar should hopefully be intrigued by the title. I was trying to go for a short title, but it is already quite long as it is. I may consider changing it... thanks for the suggestion

You are in luck! There is an autosave Chrome extension that will save any changes you've made to the JavaScript or CSS from Dev tools to your local file system... http://addyosmani.com/blog/autosave-changes-chrome-dev-tools...

I'm looking forward to helping out with this. Thanks Mike for kicking off this project!

The example was to show how you could do it, not necessarily that it was needed for that case. However, you might be surprised how many developers aren't familiar with that example regex.

Yeah, my guess is that CoffeeScript took direction from those languages for this feature.

Nice function to convert annotated string to a regex. I wonder if this is being considered in the next versions of JavaScript? Or better yet... native annotation?

I like the CoffeeScript approach since that logic is done at compile time and not when it is being executed.

Nice! I like it ;)

Ohh nice, maybe there is where CoffeeScript got inspiration from? The syntax looks very similar.

True, but then you have the overhead of string concatenation... although in the large scheme of things that is probably very small, unless you are doing it in a huge loop, but then you'd cache that RegExp anyway.

Thanks... yeah I'm also working on a selector filter to do partial matches on html5 data attribute names.

So if you have data-mytype & data-mytyphoon you can match both of them with one selector doing a starts with type syntax.

The idea is similar to the attribute selectors native in jQuery. I should be posting it soon.

Yeah, it is hard sometimes to find a good quality jQuery Plugin. These are some nice tips.

Other things to look for are Unit Test coverage and to make sure it is a up-to-date plugin.

What else do you all look for?