Simon Willison’s Weblog

Event Delegation Made Easy. Dan Webb demonstrates a neat trick for event delegation in jQuery, using CSS selectors and the jQuery .is() method to dispatch to different callbacks from a single event handler based on the target of the event.

# 10th February 2008, 3:13 pm / eventdelegation, jquery, javascript, dan-webb, delegation

Low Pro For jQuery? Dan Webb on why he prefers Prototype over jQuery: “The one big reason was that, while jQuery was super simple and concise when working on smaller projects, it offered no help in structuring larger applications”.

# 3rd February 2008, 10:16 pm / dan-webb, prototype, jquery, javascript, libraries, lowpro

Low Pro Behaviours 101. A neatly packaged method of enhancing an existing DOM element with pre-packaged behaviours.

# 17th July 2007, 10:09 am / behaviours, lowpro, dan-webb, javascript, prototype, dom

Flash vs. Ajax: It’s time to expand your toolbox. Dan Webb offers his smart, pragmatic take on the Flash vs. Ajax permathread.

# 20th March 2007, 9:49 am / dan-webb, flash, ajax, flex

The No-Shit Guide To Supporting OpenID In Your Applications. Fantastically useful: Dan Webb digs through the API documentation so you don’t have to. The example code is for Rails but the PHP and Python libraries work in much the same way.

# 27th February 2007, 1:56 am / openid, dan-webb, rails

Sumo! A Generic Microformats Parser For JavaScript. Dan Webb’s BarCamp talk on Metaprogramming JavaScript will be a must-see.

# 9th February 2007, 10:57 am / dan-webb, microformats, sumo, javascript, barcamp