Tag Archives: JavaScript

A Brief History of JavaScript

1995 – Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the [...]

JavaScript Pull-Quotes 2.0

The pull-quotes plugin has undergone some major rewriting in recent weeks. I released much of that as version 1.7 a few days ago. Over the weekend I added a few features, revamped the Settings interface for WordPress 2.5, gave it a quick rinse and polish, and here it is! New in v2.0: Rewrote Settings page [...]

JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin — bugfix version

Several users of my JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress have been having strange issues recently — header errors when publishing posts, for example. There have been a number of reports, but I have been unable to reproduce any of these occurrences. I have, however, been doing a lot of code cleanup recently in anticipation of [...]

JavaScript Pull-Quotes 1.6.6

A new version of the JavaScript Pull-Quotes plugin for WordPress is up. A user requested that i allow for an option to turn off the CSS links, so he could reduce HTTP requests by manually putting the CSS in his own stylesheets. So here it is. I live the serve. Some minor under-the-hood changes, also. [...]

CSS in Perspective

Someone has figured out a 3-D perspective dungeon using nothing but JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets.

Duplicating a Clone

The author has duplicated in JavaScript the cloneNode method of the node object, so that he can, in effect, custom-modify cloneNode.

Pull-Quote Triple Play

Wherein the author discovers that parallel conceptualization and an impromptu triple-partnership can lead to good things. Also, a nice addition to an interesting new bit of Javascript is offered for download.