I love the YUI loader as it is a great way of including the YUI on the fly. The coolest bits about it is that it gets the YUI components from the CDN and knows the dependencies so I don’t have to. So if I need the YUI for something, I don’t need extra SCRIPT […]

During the course I am currently giving in Sunnyvale on basics of the DOM and progressive enhancement I asked the attendees which methods seem to be missing in the native DOM implementation and this is what we came up with: createLink(url,text) – a shortcut method to create a link with a text node inside – […]

My esteemed colleage Klaus Komenda seems to spend as much time as I do writing cool stuff for the masses, but somehow he doesn’t crop up in a lot of to-read lists. For shame, I say, pulling up my trousers until they reach my armpits (yes, I watched Simpsons) and I point you, esteemed reader […]

On the third day we went deeper into the oddities of the DOM and how to access and create content in the current document. One thing I realized very fast is that teaching DOM before the days of FireBug was much easier – you can lead the group from property to property and method to […]

On the second day of the current Juku program we covered the “read” sections of DOM scripting: attributes, node properties and how to navigate around the document with a certain node as the starting point (nextSibling,previousSibling,parentNode,childNodes…). We also talked in detail about nodeTypes and how to recognize what is an element and what is a […]