Category Archives: javascript

Use-Case Zero

May 24, 2013 – 10:00 am

Some weeks back I lobbed an overly terse “noooooooooo!!!!!” at the W3C Web Application Security Working Group over revisions to the CSP 1.1 API; specifically a proposed reduction of the surface area to include only bits for which they could think of direct use-cases in a face-to-face meeting. At the time I didn’t have the [...]

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Cassowary on NPM

February 4, 2013 – 7:48 am

I continue to work on-and-off on the JS Cassowary port and now, thanks to some help from Isaac, new packages are up on NPM. The API is still marginally unstable and I expect we’ll be undergoing re-licensing sometime in the near future, but it’s very near a 0.1 release.

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Class Warfare

April 23, 2012 – 5:23 am

We’ve been debating various forms of classes in JS since the late ’90s. That’s right; we’ve been circling this drain for more than a decade…some worry that a form of class in ES6 that doesn’t make coffee for you while also shooting rainbows out of it’s behind won’t be worth the syntactic space it takes up….Rainbow-shooting technology takes a while to build, meanwhile, wouldn’t it be great if we could get a cup of joe around here?

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Bedrock

April 1, 2012 – 10:41 pm

Jetlag has me in its throes which is as good an excuse as any to share what has been keeping me up many nights over the past couple of years; a theory of the web as a platform. I had a chance last week to share some of my thinking here to an unlikely audience [...]

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Misdirection

February 15, 2012 – 4:04 pm

As the over-heated CSS vendor prefix debate rages, I can’t help but note the mounting pile of logical fallacies and downright poor reasoning being deployed. Some context is in order. Your Moment Of Zen The backdrop to this debate is that CSS is absolutely the worst, least productive part of the web platform. Apps teams [...]

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