Your weekly update of interesting happenings in the world of JavaScript - feel free to discuss, and help to bring some new ideas to light.
Are you ready for the New Year? Well, here’s some reading for between the parties
Learn something
An Introduction To DOM Events - click, touch, load, drag, change, input, error, resize — to name a few.
JavaScript Closure Uses - I - written by @myty ;
Create A Simple HTML5 Video Playlist - courtesy of Dudley Storey
Animating Vectors with SVG - Thanks @DaveMaxwell ;
Libraries
zepto.js - a minimalist JavaScript library for modern browsers with a (mostly) jQuery-compatible API
Generate your own custom build of Zepto - because sometimes minimal just isn’t enough
jQuery Deconstructed - Navigate the physical jQuery code to see what, where, and how the magic happens
The missing cdn for javascript and css - I ran across this this week. Very useful!
Dev Tools
Using watches in my devtools workflow - a bite-sized screencast
Chrome DevTools for Mobile: Screencast and Emulation - how cool?
jQuery Audit - a Chrome Developer Tools extension for debugging auditing jQuery
An Introduction to Source Maps - map code within a compressed file back to it’s original position in a source file
Fun stuff and Plugins
Test your maths - Not strictly JavaScript, but fun nonetheless.
Just a simple christmas tree, based on redit story - Happy Holidays!
Headroom.js - Give your pages some headroom. Hide your header until you need it.
Adaptive Backgrounds - A jQuery plugin for extracting dominant colors from images and applying it to its parent
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So, what you think about these recent happenings in JavaScript?
What have you learned the most about from this weeks articles?
Please PM us if you have anything of interest for the next issue, and happy reading! - Paul & [URL=“http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=184222”]Pullo