A corner of the Internet to horde my favorite things.
I was asked to prepare a presentation for a university course called Cutting Edge Web Technologies. I’m pleased enough with the result to want to share the spoils. I am packing all the materials and posting them online for use by the class, but I’m certain there is use for others on the web as well.
Here’s the video from the presentation below.
Presentation (1,133 kb)
Example Files (32,696 kb)
Was browsing around on Noupe and stumbled across this fantastic chart and decided it needed to be shared with everyone. I’ve always wanted to see an apple-to-apples comparison of the these libraries. Learning new frameworks and understanding their quirks takes time and nothing beats first-hand experience, but this chart definitely gives you a good idea of what direction to start in.
Surprisingly, jQuery is at least twice as slow as every library listed according to this test and many more times that according to the chart. Still, comparing that with some of the syntax gymnastics you have to do to perform a simple selector (the most commonly performed task when dealing with DOM manipulation) with these other libraries, I’ll stick with my first love.
