Maksim is a freelance full-stack Web developer who lives in Minsk, Belarus. In his spare time, he likes to learn Web standards and to contribute to open source projects that could accelerate publishing new ideas via the Internet.
HTML5 introduced a bunch of new tags, one of which is <details>. This element is a solution for a common UI component: a collapsible block. Almost every framework, including Bootstrap and jQuery UI, has its own plugin for a similar solution, but none conform to the HTML5 specification — probably because most were around long before <details> got specified and, therefore, represent different approaches.
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In this article, Maksim Chemerisuk describes his approach with better-dom to solve the internationalization problem. Since the last article about this, “Writing a Better JavaScript Library for the DOM,” he has revisited the concept to solve the issues raised through feedback. The solution was originally intended to be a set of internationalization APIs for plugins, extensions, etc. It doesn’t rely heavily on the better-dom library, so it could be adapted to any existing JavaScript library.
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After writing his latest article, “Writing A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM”, Maksim Chemerisuk realized that it’s important to understand what exactly live extensions are and how they work since the topic is extremely complex. In today’s article, he will answer most questions that were asked regarding “live extensions”.
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Lately, Maksim Chemerisuk has started to see more and more problems with jQuery’s core and can’t be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility. He, like many others, continued using the library for a while, navigating all of the pesky quirks every day. Then, Daniel Buchner created SelectorListener, and he started to think about creating a set of functions that would enable the possibility of building unobtrusive DOM components using a better approach.
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