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@description Set the reindeer that will pull
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*/
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- 1. taken by Jeremy Keith - http://www.flickr.com/photos/adactio/ Writing jQuery JavaScript that doesn’t suck Monday, 4 July 2011
- 2. Introductions Ross Bruniges Monday, 4 July 2011
- 3. Introductions taken by Mike Morgan - http://www.flickr.com/photos/morgamic/ Ross Bruniges, Web Developer at Mozilla Monday, 4 July 2011
- 4. Introductions careers.mozilla.com We’re hiring! Monday, 4 July 2011
- 5. Introductions taken by Mike Morgan - http://www.flickr.com/photos/morgamic/ Ross Bruniges, Regular drinker at Pub Standards Monday, 4 July 2011
- 6. Introductions taken by Caz Mockett - http://www.flickr.com/photos/rugbymadgirl/ So what am I going to be talking about? Monday, 4 July 2011
- 7. Introductions taken by Julian Burgess - http://www.flickr.com/photos/aubergene/ A JavaScript mixed bag. Monday, 4 July 2011
- 8. Organisation Leaving things as you would like them to be found Monday, 4 July 2011
- 9. Organisation JSLint is a JavaScript program that looks for problems in JavaScript programs. It is a code quality tool. More information on the JS Lint at http://www.jslint.com/lint.html Remember to useJavaScript Lint your eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 10. Organisation application = some large JS app (global) function eatMe() { // accessing the global variable application = false; } eatMe(); application.shouldWork();// now returns false Beware Remember to use eventDelegation global variables, they are easy to overwrite Monday, 4 July 2011
- 11. Organisation application = some large JS app (global) function eatMe() { // now accessing a local variable var application = false; } eatMe(); application.shouldWork()// now works Beware Remember to use eventDelegation global variables, they are easy to overwrite Monday, 4 July 2011
- 12. Organisation return { javascript : "fantastic" }; Example by Douglas Crockford Don’t rely on semi-colon insertion to work Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 13. Organisation return; // Semicolon inserted, believing the statement has finished. Returns undefined { // Considered to be an anonymous block, doing nothing javascript : "fantastic" };// Semicolon interpreted as an empty dummy line and moved down Example by Douglas Crockford Don’t rely on semi-colon insertion to work Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 14. Organisation return { javascript : "fantastic" }; Example by Douglas Crockford Hug your brackets and remember to include your semi-colons Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 15. Organisation 1 == true // returns true as 1 is a ‘truthy’ value and gets converted to such 1 === true // returns false as no conversion is applied Remember to use eventDelegation Always use === and !== Monday, 4 July 2011
- 16. Organisation More Crockford facts at http://crockfordfacts.com/ Remember to for Douglas Do it use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 17. Organisation $(‘#foo’).click(function(){console.log(‘please stop this madness’);}).end().filter (‘div.urgghhh’) Pain for someone down the line Avoid long chained statements use eventDelegation doesn’t mean Remember to - just because you can that you should. Monday, 4 July 2011
- 18. Organisation Remember to likes eventDelegation Everyone use a nice chain Monday, 4 July 2011
- 19. Organisation But you can end up looking use eventDelegationget too much Remember to like a douche if you Monday, 4 July 2011
- 20. Organisation $(‘#foo’) .click(function(){ console.log(‘please stop this madness’); }) .end() .filter(‘div.urgghhh’); Remember to use eventDelegation This works just fine Monday, 4 July 2011
- 21. Organisation Remember of a JS Design Pattern Make use to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 22. Organisation http://addyosmani.com/blog/essentialjsdesignpatterns/ Remember to use eventDelegation Free book! Monday, 4 July 2011
- 23. Organisation var clean = function() { var debug = false; var init = function() { console.log(‘fail’); }; return { init : init }; }(); clean.init(); Revealing Module Pattern - clean, tidy and easy to understand Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 24. Organisation Remember to well eventDelegation Modules play use with JS loaders Monday, 4 July 2011
- 25. Organisation Remember over complication Avoid to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 26. Organisation Just because you THINK it to use be cool doesn’t mean it will be. Remember might eventDelegation Especially if no one has asked for it. Monday, 4 July 2011
- 27. Organisation function poorlyThoughtOut() { // OK I’m going to get some elements // add a class or two // parse some data from the elements // remove some DOM elements // parse some data from someplace else // fade the background to yellow to highlight the change // update the screenreader buffer } Don’t stuff your functions until they burst Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 28. Organisation function parseData() {} function updateBuffer() {} function betterPlanned() { // OK I’m going to get some elements // add a class or two // parseData() // remove some DOM elements // parseData() // updateBuffer() } Smaller functions are easier useunderstand and more modular Remember to to eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 29. Organisation In your code trigger an event $.trigger(‘carousel_move’); If someone needs it they can use it later $.bind(‘carousel_move’, function(e) { console.log(‘event functionality without needing to alter the existing code base’); }); Custom events to to use for future development Remember allow eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 30. Organisation // // Dear maintainer: // // Once you are done trying to 'optimize' this routine, // and have realized what a terrible mistake that was, // please increment the following counter as a warning // to the next guy: // // total_hours_wasted_here = 39 // comment from stackoverflow thread - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/ Remember to useyour code Comment eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 31. Organisation /** * Change the role of the employee. * @param {integer} employeeId The id of the employee. * @param {string} [newRole] The new role of the employee. */ function recast(employeeId, newRole) { } project homepage at http://code.google.com/p/jsdoc-toolkit/ JSDocToolkit - commentseventDelegation out Remember to use in, documentation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 32. Organisation /* @name vehicle.Sled#reindeer @function @description Set the reindeer that will pull Santa's sled. @param {string[]} reindeer A list of the reindeer. @example // specifying some reindeer Sled().reindeer(['Dasher', 'Dancer', 'Rudolph', 'Vixen']); */ full article by Frances Berriman at http://24ways.org/2010/documentation-driven-design-for-apis Documentation-Driven Design,eventDelegationcode second Remember to use document first Monday, 4 July 2011
- 33. Organisation // TODO: Fix this. Fix what? comment from stackoverflow thread - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/ WhateverRemember to use eventDelegation the start. you choose ensure you do it from Monday, 4 July 2011
- 34. Organisation /** * Always returns true. */ public boolean isAvailable() { return false; } comment from stackoverflow thread - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/184618/ Remember to it upeventDelegation Keep use to date Monday, 4 July 2011
- 35. Performance diagram from http://www.sapdesignguild.org/ Monday, 4 July 2011
- 36. Performance taken by pi.kappa - http://www.flickr.com/photos/27890120@N08/ Don’t prematurely optimise - you’re just ASSuming Monday, 4 July 2011
- 37. Performance $(‘#foo div’) = bad, it will search first for ALL divs in the document; $(‘div.me’) is better it will only search for divs with that specific class $(‘div#me’) = best, all JS parses will look only for that specific element Write good selectors (sizzle parse right to left - in IE6 and 7) Monday, 4 July 2011
- 38. Performance var expensive-selector = $(“.section:first”), reused-json-object = $.getJSON(‘docs.json’), reusable-regex = /d(b+)d/g; Cache quicker for reuse Monday, 4 July 2011
- 39. Performance Exit quickly to avoid silent fails Monday, 4 July 2011
- 40. Performance var elm = $(‘#findMe’); if (!elm.length) { return false; } We now know that this code will only be run if the element actually exists. Exit quickly to avoid silent fails Monday, 4 July 2011
- 41. Performance from The Mysteries of JavaScript Fu, Dan Webb - http://www.slideshare.net/danwrong/java-script-fu- Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 42. Performance .live() example - quick and dirty $('tr').live('click', function(event) { // this == tr element }); Code examples from http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2010/03/4/event-delegation-with-jquery Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 43. Performance .delegate() example - also chainable $('table').delegate('tr', 'click', function(event){ // this == tr element }); Code examples from http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2010/03/4/event-delegation-with-jquery Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 44. Performance Handrolled example - maximum control $('table').bind('click', function(event) { // this == table element var $tr = $(event.target).closest('tr'); }); Code examples from http://brandonaaron.net/blog/2010/03/4/event-delegation-with-jquery Remember to use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 45. Performance Cause minimal reflows use eventDelegation in IE) Remember to and repaints (especially Monday, 4 July 2011
- 46. Performance “Repaint - also known as redraw - is what happens whenever something is made visible when it was not previously visible, or vice versa, without altering the layout of the document.” Quote from http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/efficient-javascript/?page=all Remember to use eventDelegation Repaints Monday, 4 July 2011
- 47. Performance “whenever the DOM tree is manipulated, whenever a style is changed that affects the layout, whenever the className property of an element is changed, or whenever the browser window size is changed... In many cases, they are equivalent to laying out the entire page again.” Quote from http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/efficient-javascript/?page=all Remember toReflows use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 48. Performance Remember to use eventDelegation Use the latest version of jQuery! Monday, 4 July 2011
- 49. Don’t forget your accessibility taken by Drew McLellan - http://www.flickr.com/photos/drewm/ Monday, 4 July 2011
- 50. Don’t forget your accessibility Don’t forget your focus (and blur) Monday, 4 July 2011
- 51. Don’t forget your accessibility $(‘#foo’).bind(‘mouseenter focus’, function(e) { code goes here }); $(‘#foo’).bind(‘mouseleave blur’, function(e) { code goes here }); If you use .bind (opposed to .click) you can include multiple events Monday, 4 July 2011
- 52. Don’t forget your accessibility Invalid mark-up is still invalid mark-up even when inserted via JS Monday, 4 July 2011
- 53. Don’t forget your accessibility Remember to update the screenreader buffer Monday, 4 July 2011
- 54. Don’t forget your accessibility 1. Update the value of a hidden input field 2. Ensure that you have a tabIndex value of -1 on the element that you’ve altered 3. .focus() on the newly inserted content The old(ish) way Monday, 4 July 2011
- 55. Don’t forget your accessibility “Live region markup allows web page authors to specify when and how live changes to specific areas of a web page should be spoken or shown on a Braille display by a screen reader.” Read more at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/AJAX/WAI_ARIA_Live_Regions The new(ish) way - ARIA live regions Monday, 4 July 2011
- 56. Don’t forget your accessibility aria-live - sets the frequency of updates to AT aria-controls - associates a control with an area. All actions on that control are announced by AT aria-relevant - states what changes to the live region are to be announced to AT Read more at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/AJAX/WAI_ARIA_Live_Regions The new(ish) way - ARIA live regions Monday, 4 July 2011
- 57. Don’t forget Performance your ‘edge cases’ Monday, 4 July 2011
- 58. Don’t forget your ‘edge cases’ If things can goto use eventDelegation Remember wrong then normally will Monday, 4 July 2011
- 59. Don’t forget your ‘edge cases’ Remember to code for when the server doesn’t return a value - it might be down or the app might be broken. The server might take longer to reply than expected and cause a timeout meaning an empty return value. If things can go wrong then normally will Monday, 4 July 2011
- 60. Don’t forget your ‘edge cases’ $.ajax is the backbone to all jQuery AJAX methods like $.getScript or $.getJSON and allows for much greater flexibility. $.ajax({ url : “foo.php”, dataType : “json”, success : function(data) { gets sent the JSON response }, error : function() { gets sent the error type and text }, timeout : 1000 }); Remember toto the rescue $.ajax use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011
- 61. Don’t forget your ‘edge cases’ - like other browsers! Remember toause eventDelegation jQuery isn’t 100% magic bullet Monday, 4 July 2011
- 62. Thanks for listening! http://bit.ly/ross-london-jquery Remember to use eventDelegation Looking for the links? Monday, 4 July 2011
- 63. Taken by Mark Klotz - http://www.flickr.com/photos/markklotz/ Remember toCheers! use eventDelegation Monday, 4 July 2011