Maksim Chemerisuk 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... Read More
Writing front-end code often requires developers to address the problem of internationalization at some level. Despite the current standard, which introduces a bunch of new tags, simply adding support for different languages in a JavaScript plugin is still complicated. As a result, for any new project, you have to build a solution from scratch or adapt various existing APIs from other plugins... Read More
After recently writing an article on “Writing A Better JavaScript Library For The DOM”, I realized that the topic is indeed a very complex one and that it's important to understand what exactly live extensions are and how they work.
In today's article, I will answer most questions that were asked regarding "live extensions" and help you get going with this new concept. Read More
