Monthly Archives: October 2009

Is JavaScript , ok ?

Well there certainly are mistakes in its design. And since it came to be, out of pure accident, or luck, it could be much worse, that’s for sure. By far the worse mistake being its name.

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Cross browser colour calculation.

Few weeks ago, I had to implement the function to convert any legal CSS colour value (rgb, named colours, etc) to the hex equivalent. And it has to work in all the browsers, of course.

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Does your browser support CSS on newborns ?

Working on a cross browser code the other day, I stumbled upon yet another difference in browsers behaviour and dom implementation.

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Misterious case of JScript.NET

C# is bloated beyond repair. I like F# or IronPython (for example) and I would love D# to be a .NET programming language, and not a “guitar chord”, when Google-ing it up. (Or is it Bing-ing ;o)

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Make it simpler …

Why is JavaScript provoking people to write unnecesarily complicated code? Even people who usually come across as relaxed and not as feverish javascript zealots.

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