Category Archives: Javascript

Google Chrome CSS Selector Speeds Compared

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Google somewhat surprised us all and released it’s web browser on Sept. 2, 2008; most users of the shiny new browser have been extremely impressed with the initial speed and features. I have to say that even I am impressed by this new browser (as long as I’m not behind a corporate firewall).  Since the CNET article came out about the extreme speed of Google Chrome, I immediately wondered how it would perform against other browsers in the mootools.net tool Slickspeed CSS selectors test, so I decided to do some benchmarking of my own.

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The Main Reason For JavaScript Unreadability

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One of the things that I have noticed about JavaScript is that there are many ways to solve the same problem (sometimes I even think of it like perl’s answer to browser-side scripting); one one side, this is definitely a good thing.

However, not only are there many ways to solve the same problem, but everyone that tries to solve that same problem produces JavaScript code that is so radically different from any previous attempt at the problem that it makes these problems seem more difficult than they really are.
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