Managing js dependencies and the importance of global-scoped libraries

In performing some cleanup, abstraction and upkeep on the 0.3 release of the BBB player (soon to be 0.3.1), I’ve been working on expanding the testing functionality. In doing so, I’m pushing the test code from the testing page (test.html) into its own external JavaScript file (test.js). Trouble is, I want to keep this code [...]

BBB Player 0.3

With December upon us, it’s time for the third iteration over the BBB Player. And this one shan’t disappoint. My partner’s release notes forthcoming, I’ll be focused on discussing my own tasks. If you’ll recall, the original list of items tasked to me looked like this: Hooking up dummy server calls on chapter addition/deletion Toggle [...]

Writing and Running Automated Firefox Browser Chrome Tests

As a followup to making my first patch for Firefox, it came time to write some automated tests for it. Turns out Mozilla has an entire suite of automated testing tools for their platforms. All thoroughly documented, they range from the ultra low-level compiled code tests to “record and play” macro testing for human UI [...]

InnerHTML vs. DOM Manipulation

In working on pushing out my 0.3 Release for the BBB Player, I’ve had to look a great deal into element generation and the best ways to do it. But how exactly do you measure “best”? Is best the best performance, the least lines of code, or the most compatible? And if we go by [...]

Modding Firefox

As the semester is drawing to a close and we the open source crew are feeling comfortable with the JavaScript language, Dave took us to the next level. From the content scripts we had been working on, we got our first exposure to chrome scripts: JavaScript that doesn’t just run in the browser: it runs [...]