JavaScript

Run, the DOM is coming!

or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the DOM.

CSS specificity in JavaScript

Just in case you ever needed to calculate a CSS specificity value (don’t all shout out at once), here’s a small JavaScript object to do just that.

JavaScript performance – avoiding reflow

Find out how to improve web app performance with Ignite, by limiting browser reflow.

Classical Inheritance in JavaScript

There are countless ways to apply classical inheritance to JavaScript; practically every JS library or framework out there uses one. Even though it is an old topic, I was looking at several solutions and none of them seemed quite right to me. Here is my attempt.

Alternatives to image.onload

A couple of techniques for detecting image loading in any browser.