dmethvin

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by dmethvin 15y ago
We closed a huge number of bugs in 1.7, but yes there are about 100 open bugs plus another roughly 100 more that are either feature requests or unverified. For a project the size of jQuery and considering the installed base, I think that
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Agreed, and we plan to do something about it. There will be a jQuery blog post coming soon.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Haha, well it has always been documented to be an Object but turns out that there are a lot of people who don't read the documentation and pass strings or numbers. So rather than break their code in 1.7 we decided to document the fact that
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Sorry, they're the last thing to be done and there was a lot to document because of its API surface. Addy Osmani did a writeup a few weeks ago: http://addyosmani.com/blog/jquery-1-7s-callbacks-feature-dem...
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by dmethvin 15y ago
The docs site has a "What's new in jQuery 1.7" section that might help. As far as what is non-best practice, we'll be covering some of that in a blog post next week so stay tuned.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
The data feature isn't used that frequently, and when it is the best way to use it is by passing an object anyway. So although it's mentioned it is likely to be very uncommon.
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JQuery 1.7 Released(blog.jquery.com)
335 points by dmethvin 15y ago|46 comments
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by dmethvin 15y ago
You do not know how true that is. I used vi in the early 1980s for several years and then went to a job for a decade where I used another editor. Yet when I sat down in front of vim I still felt right at home. It's truly like riding a bic
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by dmethvin 15y ago
It's natural for many people here to think whatever they are doing must be what everyone else is doing, but the average Internet user does not have a MacBook Pro running Chrome. And the ones that spend the most money on the Internet certain
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JQuery 1.7RC2 Released(blog.jquery.com)
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Sure, HP dropping their tablet was like Microsoft dropping the Kin. That's not the part of the story that scared corporate America. It's the simultaneous news of HP telegraphing their exit from the PC market without any clear exit strategy.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Kind of funny that HP picked the $99 price point AGAIN. Bill of materials should allow them some profit on this one at least, unlike the TouchPad.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
If you shut down one of the big boys like VeriSign you might as well shut down the Internet as far as someone like Amazon is concerned, since VeriSign issued their SSL. The entire ecommerce world would be at Challenger-level rationalization
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Anthony Colon worked for the San Jose Police Department for 26 years and retired in 2010 to take a job with Apple doing security. So I wonder if he'll argue that he told Calderon something to the effect of "I'm (mumble) was with the police
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Yeah, that's exactly the scenario we were expecting: HTML markup would specify some data that would be used to initialize jQuery's data object.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
If by "they" you mean the W3C then yes I agree. :) The reason I wrote the post was because people see the `.data()` API in jQuery, which existed before HTML5, and think it has something to do with `data-` attributes. Indeed, we made it impo
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I'm in the DC suburbs and am happy with T-Mobile. At my house Verizon has NO signal at all. So clearly it's a location-dependent issue. Carrier diversity does have its advantages in other ways. I was in NYC during the earthquake and had no
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by dmethvin 15y ago
There is a crazy-like-a-fox madness to Southwest's boarding. It's more than just the use of A-B-C sections. If you pay for a business class ticket that gets you up into the front of the A line. Those people are usually frequent travelers wh
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> What seems to be suspicious SQL (the CASE/WHEN/ELSE) is probably not the problem. It certainly could be the problem. Like you say, a CASE becomes a computed field and requires a table scan. A simple check for IsAlsoAFruit can be don
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by dmethvin 15y ago
There is a "Send To Any Folder" utility that you can put in there, but it's not a standard feature.
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> Of course I can do all this stuff and more without even consciously thinking about it using a mouse. One of the reasons vi/vim is so much faster for me is that there isn't a need to move between the mouse and keyboard with the requisi
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by dmethvin 15y ago
But the analogy to chess is another sign of short-term thinking. There is no end of the game if the company is to survive. Company execs are optimizing for their own good. They won't be around forever, so they need an exit strategy (end g
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by dmethvin 15y ago
It depends on the selector and the browser. Something like $(".myclass") is worth caching on IE7 because it requires a pass through the entire document; there's no `querySelectorAll` or `getElementsByClassName`. I wouldn't start by caching
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I think the point there was that if you have a lot of setup to do, try to defer as much as possible past `.ready()` so that the user will have something to look at. However, if you wait until the `load` event happens, the page is visible an
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by dmethvin 15y ago
Randi is right. Only scumbags like Ben Franklin are sleazy enough to use pseudonyms. http://www.pbs.org/benfranklin/l3_wit_name.html
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> This piece really is all about the Nortel patents. You bet! Nortel is a household name for all they have done to advance technology and for the smartphone industry in particular, I am shocked that anyone could dispute the validity o
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by dmethvin 15y ago
> Everyone today wants to get the personal glory out of their own little pet project instead of getting the glory out of contributing important patches to existing projects. Maybe you're right and it's personal glory. It could also be t
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by dmethvin 15y ago
I think the supposition is that the syntax errors are worked out of the JavaScript by the time you deploy it to customers. This is most likely intended to catch runtime errors from unanticipated conditions. A `try/catch` is most expensive w
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by dmethvin 15y ago
The browser market share does not matter, the _conversion_ share does. I've heard from several large retailers that IE6 comprises a significantly higher share of their online sales than the market share would indicate. That could be because
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by dmethvin 15y ago
One reason that assembly of products like phones requires human hands is simply because nobody has yet tweaked the designs and processes to make them friendly to robot assembly. There hasn't been a financial incentive to do so yet.

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