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ronaldj··on An introduction to the JavaScript Module Pattern
What if you want a clean API? What if you want the users of your code to be able to instantiate an instance and inspect that object in the console, seeing only the public methods and not having them get lost in a sea of private stuff?
ronaldj··on An introduction to the JavaScript Module Pattern
The syntax is ugly. They should've made it a little less verbose.
ronaldj··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
So you're that <1% with their JS turned off. We knew you were out there somewhere.
ronaldj··on Mozilla may make Flash click-to-play by default in future Firefox
Or CSS3?
ronaldj··on Happy Easter CSS3 animation
No sane person would write it like this. Have code generate the styles for you. The animation is nice though.
ronaldj··on Netflix Recommendations: Beyond the 5 stars
Maybe hoping people would just get one streaming account per person?
ronaldj··on A better console.log
Webkit prints the file and line number out in console.log. I use it all the time, but I guess that's because it also links to that point in the code.
ronaldj··on Google Play
That's because they are animating top and left instead of using CSS3's translate, so they aren't getting nice smooth hardware acceleration.
ronaldj··on HTML5 Rocks has a whole new look
I don't like it as much as the old look. The "Or get straight to the tech" autoscroll thing really messes with you when you are scrolling / reading.
ronaldj··on CSS variables are in the works
What happened to the @var variables? Not a big fan of this data prefix stuff.
ronaldj··on YC and 500 Startups company Curebit caught stealing from 37 Signals
As someone that writes HTML for a living I couldn't imagine using a WYSIWYG editor. A lot of markup, especially the new semantic HTML5 stuff is pretty subjective. Different organizations/teams have different markup patterns/views on this stuff. A WYSIWYG editor would have to be pretty customizable to fit in different organizations I think.

You can use Firebug/Web Inspector to adjust your layouts in real-time without needing to go back, modify code in your editor, save, and reload the page. There are some new tools (backfire) out that will even let Firebug/Web Inspector automatically update your CSS file so you don't have to go back after tweaking it in browser. Hopefully, browser vendors will one day bake this functionality in to their browsers.

The biggest time sink is not being able to drag and drop it's cross browser support. I can spit out a page from a design pretty quick, but getting it to look consistent across four or five different browsers takes forever.

ronaldj··on The New Web Typography
Those browsers show default text for me and then switch over to the font-face.
ronaldj··on The New Web Typography
Or no commas, similar to transform: font-features: kern(0.5px) ligatures small-caps;
ronaldj··on Look out, Nissan Leaf: Tesla S will sell for under $50,000, run for 160 miles
They need to keep making the roadster.
ronaldj··on Hey Google, thanks for making my daughter cry.
Good thing Yahoo didn't do this in the 90's otherwise no one in my middle school class wouldn't have had an email account.
ronaldj··on Thank Steve Jobs
He's not dead yet.
ronaldj··on Pure CSS3 coverflow effect. No javascript. Working on Chrome, FF and Safari.
"Working" is a bit of stretch. Super sluggish for me on an i5 MBP in both Chrome and Safari.
ronaldj··on Western Graduates Head to China for Internships
"who had a two-week placement with Baoshang Bank in Beijing late last year"

How much can you possibly learn in two weeks?

ronaldj··on Why is America the 'no-vacation nation'?
In the US advertised salaries don't include personal income tax (local and federal), insurance, social security, medicare, 401k, and any other fees you might incur.

At the top of your paycheck you would see your 'advertised' earnings for that period and then at the bottom you have your take home net pay. Depending on your location, you loose around 20% of your 'advertised' pay to taxes and other mandatory things. If you contribute to a 401K you loose even more.

ronaldj··on Why Maker Faire Matters
I went to Maker Faire for the first time this weekend. I definitely wish I had more exposure to stuff like that growing up.
ronaldj··on AIM Google Talk Federation now live
Works for me.
ronaldj··on WebP in the wild
The quality of WebP is interesting. After reviewing the sample images (http://code.google.com/speed/webp/gallery.html) provided by Google I prefer some of the images in WebP and some in jpeg.
ronaldj··on I don't learn anything on HN anymore, bring back the upvote count
I miss the voting. I don't even bother reading comments anymore.
ronaldj··on This is a web page - Mozilla WebGL demo "No Comply"
Doesn't work at all for me on IE6.
ronaldj··on CSS animations just landed for Firefox
So is the syntax going to be @-moz-keyframes?
ronaldj··on Canvas vs Canvas vs SVG performance on iPad
So where's the code showing the 3d transform technique?
ronaldj··on JQuery noise generator
Nope. I'd write it in plain vanilla JS. Frameworks are great, but sometimes I think the world is too dependent on them.
ronaldj··on JQuery noise generator
Why does everything have to be JQuery dependent these days?
ronaldj··on Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
Also to their credit, Lion hasn't even been released yet.
ronaldj··on AwesomeChartJS – Simple Javascript – HTML 5 Charting Library
It's not flash?
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