Author Archives: brad

Scoping Javascript closures in loops

By brad | Published: January 23, 2009

It must have been something I ate, cause this is like the third post in 2 days I think! This is a quick one, but super handy to know if you don’t already. There is semi-common problem I run into, and it has to do with scoping of closures inside of loops. Lets get straight [...]

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Browser autocomplete and keyup events

By brad | Published: January 23, 2009

Browser oddities are nothing new, but I came across one today that I haven’t heard about before, and couldn’t seem to find many comments about on the interwebs. To get to the gist of it, when the native browser autocomplete functionality pops up for a text input, it also triggers a keyup event for the [...]

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Followup on YUI : getFirstDescendantBy()

By brad | Published: January 22, 2009

Awhile ago I posted on an additional function for YAHOO.util.Dom called getFirstDescendantBy(). I was following the ticket submitted to the YUI Sourceforge tracker, and saw that it had been closed out, and that a new function called YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementBy() was added to fill this request. I decided to check out the newly available YUI source code [...]

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Javascript widget approaches: Singleton vs Prototype

By brad | Published: December 23, 2008

Recently I’ve been doing some work setting up some standard javascript widgets for a web application I am working on. By widget, I’m referring to items such as javascript date pickers, tooltips, autocomplete inputs, etc. I’m building on top of YUI for this approach, but the principles I’d like to discuss are applicable to any [...]

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slikcalc 1.1 release

By brad | Published: September 11, 2008

I’ve just released a new build of slikcalc – javascript calculator library that includes a few small bug fixes, and some shortcuts to the API. The new API for creating calculators looks as follows: as opposed to: Its a small change, but I think is easier to use. Of course the old way will still [...]

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