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…LAB .src.js . To create a suitable unit test, I've used the Turing Ajax test harness. The test itself just needs to ensure JavaScript gets loaded and executed as expected:
'test require' : function () { $t . require ( '/load-me.js' , function () { assert . equal ( loadMeDone , 1 ); }); }
The load-me.js script sets a global, loadMeDone , and the assertion tests for this. The script's onload method will be set to this callback.
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…(such as Dojo). A practical use case might be an Ajax call: a simple Ajax call might have two callbacks: a success and a failure callback. However, deferreds offer a decoupling by essentially abandoning callbacks and moving to a pub/sub system. Now multiple modules/processes can subscribe to a single " Ajax success" event. And modules/processes can even potentially subscribe to the success event in the time between the Ajax request is sent and before it's received. Again, …
…should be familiar with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Prior exposure to any of these concepts will be helpful, but not required: AJAX, XML, jQuery, HTTP, REST.
It's short notice, but we hope you can make it, so register now ! As always, feel free to email events@jquery.org with any event related questions.
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Let's Make a Framework is an ongoing series about building a JavaScript framework from the ground up.
These articles are tagged with lmaf . The project we're creating is called Turing . Documentation is available at turingjs.com .
API Redesign
As I mentioned last week, I thought it would be interesting to change the turing.net module to have a chained API that looks more like TJ Holowaychuk's Superagent library. …
Ajax
# 9255 : jQuery.parseXML error handling does not work in webkit browsers
# 9854 : Pass statusText through instead of "normalizing" it
# 9887 : jQuery.ajaxSetup may cause unnecessary memory usage
# 9970 : Typo in ajax.js: status should be jqXHR.status?
# 10098 : Encode comment-like Accept headers to avoid mobile carrier mangling
Attributes
# 9630 : foo.contents().hasClass() returns incorrect value …
Organizing Ajax and the Domain Model
Deffereds
Ajax Fixtures
Client Side Templates
Prototypal Inheritance
File/Folder Organization
Dependency Management
Production Builds
QUnit, Jasmine, Selenium, FuncUnit, Waitr, etc
High Performance jQuery
Even More Design Reviews
Yes, that's a whole lot to cover! So come and be prepared to have your mind blown (and let me know if there's something else …
Getting CORS Working ( cross-domain Ajax)
Slides: Fabric.js — Building a Canvas Library
Node Tidbits
Mozilla jumps into Node.js server project
Pulley: An Easy Github Pull Request Lander (written in node)
node-spdy : a SPDY implementation in node
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When the AJAX wave came in 2005 when Jesse James Garrett coined the term and then everyone wanted it, one of the major shortcomings was that dynamic updates of only portions of a web page lead to inconsistent history handling and back/forward navigation button problems in web browsers and poor end user experiences. Enter the HTML5 History API .
The HTML5 History API aims to offer web developers a very simple way to push states of a web page into the history of the web browser, …
When AJAX came around we totally killed the bookmarking and history of the browser. This was a problem as our visitors have already been conditioned to hit the back button every time something goes wrong (admit it, you also found yourself reloading or hitting back in GMail one time or another). We needed a fix for that. As far as I remember Mike Stenhouse was the first to propose a fix in 2005 using the fragment identifier of the URI to store information and a hidden iframe element …
jQuery - client side DOM, Ajax and effects library used to handle from submissions
JS.Class , JS.Test - portable object system and testing framework for JavaScript
Cucumber - Ruby acceptance testing framework used for writing plain-text test scenarios
Capybara - web scripting API that can drive many different backends
Rack::Test - Capybara backend that talks to Rack applications directly with no wire traffic, suited to …