Your weekly update of interesting happenings in the world of JavaScript - feel free to discuss, and help to bring some new ideas to light.
Here’s what we’ve seen of interest this week.
Background info
Renaissance of JavaScript - Projecting a history of civilization to programming language
A detailed look
Comparison of all zeros in JavaScript - a comprehensive chart comparing different equalities and math results
Type Checking in JavaScript - a comprehensive approach
Recent libraries
StickUp - A simple jQuery plugin that “sticks” an element to the top of the browser window while scrolling past it
formatter.js - Format user input to match a specified pattern
magnifier.js - a small library to enable a magnifying glass effect on an images
Hammer - a small library for multi-touch gestures
Taking things further
A Step-by-Step Guide to Your First AngularJS App
Single page TODO app - Creating a single page todo app with Node and Angular
GruntJS - Let Someone Else Do My Tedious Repetitive Tasks
Is there nothing that JavaScript can’t do?
JsDOSBox - A JavaScript PC DOS emulator
So, what you think about these recent happenings in JavaScript? Let us know and we’ll have some more to inspire you next week.
Also, feel free to PM Paul or [URL=“http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/private.php?do=newpm&u=184222”]PM Pullo if you have anything interesting for the next issue. Happy reading!
