Monthly Archives: May 2009

Adobe Reverts Flex Store to Open Web

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 23, 2009
A few weeks ago in the process of doing some research about the Adobe Flex platform, I came across their online store, a dogfooded full page application using Flex. This morning I went back to the same URL to find a site that was no longer using the full page Flex application I had been [...]
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Performance Caveat with jQuery Selectors and Live Events

By Zach Leatherman | Published: May 8, 2009
Prerequisite: Knowledge/Experience with jQuery Live Events (new in jQuery 1.3), and the concept of Event Delegation. When developing on the front end, it’s easy to prioritize correctness over performance. Performance is the step child that gets lost while you’re pulling your hair out worrying about cross browser compatibility. It’s very important to regularly benchmark your [...]
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