21 May 2012

The Tech Reflector

 
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On DailyJS 8 months ago.
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…in WebGL by Brandon Jones, Valve's Source Engine BSP format is discussed in the context of WebGL. Brandon demonstrated his code at onGameStart using a level from Team Fortress 2, but he hasn't uploaded it due to licensing concerns.

The post contains a lot of details about Valve's level file format, and how rendering complex commercial 3D game data relates to WebGL:

I was told once that one of the big reasons that WebGL doesn't have …

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On Jupiter Home articles 8 months ago.
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Engine ( git ) ( forum )

jQueryMX - jQuery MVC, DOM, and

Event extensions ( git ) ( forum )

StealJS - Dependency Management,

Code Generators, CSS & JS compression ( git ) ( forum )

FuncUnit - Web Testing

Framework ( git ) ( forum )

Each has its own website (coming soon), github repo, and forum. You can customize the

jQueryMX download like …

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Actual JavaScript Engine Performance - Crockford uses his own JSLint as a benchmark. But is JSLint really a better benchmark?

Multi-touch game controller in JavaScript/ HTML5 for iPad (via JavaScript Weekly)

Videos from the Day of JS on Mobile back in January have now been posted.

Ways to immediately invoke functions (JSFiddle) - not that you should necessarily use all of these techniques, but they're interesting nonetheless

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That was 1995. Engine prototype took ten days in May. Bytecode compiler and interpreter from the start, because Netscape had a server-side JS product in the works. The rest of the year was browser integration, mainly what became known as " DOM level 0″. Only now standardized in HTML 5 and Anne's wg . Sentence fragments here show my PTSD from that sprint :-/.

In 1996 I finally received some needed assistance from RRJ , who helped port …

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Qwery - The Tiny Selector Engine

It's true. The world needs another JavaScript DOM Selector Engine. So without further fuss - introducing Qwery - The Tiny Selector Engine . It's a port from where Simon Willison left off with his getElementsBySelector in 2003, and believe it or not, this is exactly where jQuery started .

Qwery supports all the basic CSS1 & CSS2 selectors, plus the additional (most important) attribute selectors …

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