This month I’m going back to programming for a while. I need a rest from the weirdness on the Talkback discussion in last month’s column. I do intend to write more about theory issues in the future, ...
Two books live on my desk when I'm working on Web pages with client-side scripting: David Flanagan's JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition (O'Reilly, 2006, 994 pp., $49.99, ISBN ...
Since Google Plus and a few other cutting-edge websites now render entirely on the client, let's review why server-side rendering is desirable at all. Server-side rendering means when the browser ...
Today’s Web applications handle large amounts of data processing on the client side. They may even need to be able to operate offline. These demands things go a long way toward explaining why ...
Faster webpage loading times play a big part in user experience and SEO, with page load speed a key determining factor for Google’s algorithm. A front-end web developer must decide the best way to ...
The Ruby programming language runtime has been ported to Google’s Native Client (NaCl) framework. The port, which was implemented by Google, will make it possible for NaCl-enabled Web browsers to ...