Simon Willison’s Weblog

An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino. Fantastic comment thread with involvement from the guys who created Objective-J. Just like Objective-C, Objective-J is a preprocessor that runs against regular JavaScript source files so you can use JavaScript and Objective-J idioms interchangeably.

# 7th June 2008, 7:40 pm / objectivej, javascript, objectivec, 280north, ajaxian

Yahoo! Search Contextual Precaching. Neat performance trick on Yahoo! Search: the moment you start typing (indicating you intend to search) the site quietly fires off a bunch of requests to precache assets needed for the search results page.

# 16th November 2007, 3:58 pm / performance, javascript, ajaxian, yahoo, yahoosearch

RSS Bling goes Offline with Google Gears. Google Gears is Google’s new offline JavaScript framework. Dion Almaer (a Google employee) has a nice example of code using Google Gears on Ajaxian.

# 31st May 2007, 8:27 am / google-gears, google, ajaxian, javascript, offline, dion-almaer