Comments on: Getting back to my roots http://adam.yanalunas.com/blog/archives/76 The complete & uncut edition Mon, 22 Aug 2011 20:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: tmont http://adam.yanalunas.com/blog/archives/76/comment-page-1#comment-1616 tmont Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:57:41 +0000 http://adam.yanalunas.com/blog/?p=76#comment-1616 Truth. You'll never actually understand or be able to work around browser incompatibilities until you actually do it yourself. You'll never know that you can't set certain request headers on XMLHttpRequest in Chrome until you try and write your own AJAX object. It's a very good exercise that everyone should do at some point. One thing I've been frustrated about in jQuery and JavaScript frameworks in general is debugging. If something goes wrong, I can't tell if it's a framework bug, a code bug, a browser bug, or something else entirely (read: AdBlock). Truth. You’ll never actually understand or be able to work around browser incompatibilities until you actually do it yourself. You’ll never know that you can’t set certain request headers on XMLHttpRequest in Chrome until you try and write your own AJAX object. It’s a very good exercise that everyone should do at some point.

One thing I’ve been frustrated about in jQuery and JavaScript frameworks in general is debugging. If something goes wrong, I can’t tell if it’s a framework bug, a code bug, a browser bug, or something else entirely (read: AdBlock).

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