History.js gracefully supports the HTML5 History/State APIs (pushState, replaceState, onPopState) in all browsers. Including continued support for data, titles, replaceState. Supports jQuery, MooTools and Prototype.

Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.

An object essentially wraps up method dispatch and state

You've heard of Browser Detection and Feature Detection. Form Factor Detection is a third way, providing an avenue to manage conceptually distinct user interfaces. It doesn't eliminate the need for the first two approaches, but you use them in the context of a particular form factor's interface.

Implementation inheritance... is a bad idea that makes software harder to manage and reuse. It binds the implementations of classes together so that neither class can be understood without the other: a subclass cannot be understood without knowing how the inherited methods are implemented in its superclass, and a superclass cannot be understood without knowing how its methods are inherited in subclasses. In a complex class hierarchy, no individual class can be understood without understanding all the other classes in the hierarchy.

Nonetheless, object oriented programming does provide at least two useful features. The first is encapsulation: objects combine together data and code in a way that hides implementation details. The second useful feature is interface inheritance, which refers to classes that provide the same methods and APIs even though they have different implementations. This makes the classes interchangeable, which encourages reuse.

The art of scientific illustration will have to adapt to the new age of online publishing

The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more.

Arrowlets is a JavaScript library that uses the concept of arrows to make the task of composing event-handlers easy. Event handlers are written as normal functions, as you would today, and Arrowlets provide flexible combinators to easily compose sequence of events, animation, asynchronous network access, and making long-running computations while keeping the UI responsive.

MDV is a Javascript shim which partially implements a design for HTML that supports a sensible dynamic separation between page display and the data which drives it.

MDV aims to get HTML to provide the essential foundation underlying most templating libraries. Further, it aims to allow dynamic web applications to declare the relationship between their data and presentation: updates to application data are reflected in the presentation and user input is assigned to application data.

In every platform that’s truly a platform it’s important to have a stable conceptual model of what’s “down there”. For Java that’s not the language, it’s the JVM. For the web…well…um. Yes, it bottoms out at C/C++, but that’s mostly observable through spooky action at a distance.

The canonical solution for determining the sign of a zero is to divide one by it and then check whether the result is -Infinity or +Infinity

Standalone test spies, stubs and mocks for JavaScript. No dependencies, works with any unit testing framework.