Welcome
January 6, 2009
Here I will not only be sharing the latest news, resources, tutorials, and tools but it will also serve as a platform. As a long time supporter and beneficiary of the open source community, I figured it was time to give back. The main focus of my projects will be to fill a certain niche market of open source Javascript, that being library independent and free of browser detection.
You see I have a problem with Javascript libraries in general, it has always been my contention that each project deserves its own library containing only required modules. The facilitation of browser sniffing is just the icing on the cake; more often than not I find it a simple means to an end or an unnecessary shortcut, all you have to do is view the source of some of the most popular Javascript libraries to see examples of this. A solution short of checking the user agent is often easier than one might have thought.
In that spirit, I will be releasing various modules that promise to be lightweight, standalone, cross-browser, and contain no browser sniffing whatsoever. Be warned, I don’t like rewarding or encouraging bad programming, so don’t expect me to support your mistakes; if your working without a doctype, that is your problem!
I look foward to future dialog.