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• Binding Events The Right Way

  March 19, 2012

  On of the interesting new things that Javascript 1.8.5 introduced is something that we were doing for long time – binding functions to events while controlling the context of called method. If up until now we used tricks like closures to create this binding, now this is built into the language. Binding Events This is [...]

  posted in Blog by Amir Harel

• Loading Scripts – Sync or Async

  March 12, 2012

  In many programming languages we have the concept of including files/scripts in a project. This means that the compiler or the interpreter needs to fetch and read another file. This is one of the building blocks of modern programming. In JavaScript we don’t have an actual include but we can add scripts to the DOM [...]

  posted in Blog by Amir Harel

• Comparing Javascript Objects

  March 10, 2012

  If you ever had the need to compare two javascript object you know that this is not an easy task. Javascript compare objects by reference, so only if it is the same object the javascript compare will return true. The Problem The simple solution to compare two object is to iterate on the properties and [...]

  posted in Blog by Amir Harel

• BabaJS – Javascript Template Engine

  April 26, 2011

  What is BabaJS BabaJS is an open source Javascript template engine/manager. Read the full and updated documentation at github The basic concept is: Template + Data = HTML Here is a simple example: <!– user template –> <div class="user"> <span>< %=data.userName%></span> < %IF data.hasPic %> <img src="<% return 'http://imgs.mydomain.com/'+ data.userPic; %/>" /> < %ELSE%> <span>Add [...]

  posted in Blog by Amir Harel

• Implementing Autocomplete jQuery Plugin for Textarea

  March 7, 2011

  We all know the auto-complete feature. We use it in google search, when google tries to suggest our search term, and you probably saw it in many other sites which implemented the auto-complete for their own use. Most of the auto-complete out there are implemented in a text field, where the user has one line [...]

  posted in Blog by Amir Harel