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Evolving the look of Google Maps. Or, How To Make Information-Dense Interfaces Easy To Use.
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"Underscore is a utility-belt library for JavaScript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in JavaScript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux."
Underscore provides 44-odd functions that support both the usual functional suspects: map, select, invoke — as well as more specialized helpers: function binding, javascript templating, deep equality testing, and so on. It delegates to built-in functions, if present, so JavaScript 1.6 compliant browsers will use the native implementations of forEach, map, filter, every, some and indexOf.
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"During the development of Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, Microsoft found themselves with a surprising problem. The upcoming version of their browser had improved its standards support so much, older pages no longer rendered properly. Well, they rendered properly (according to specification), but people expected them to render improperly. The pages themselves had been authored based on the quirks of dominant browsers of the day, mostly Netscape 4 and Internet Explorer 4. IE5/Mac was so advanced, it actually broke the web."
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Hi, I'm Paul Carvill and I'm a web developer. I am Head of Interface Development at LBi, Europe's largest digital agency.
I also like walking, cooking, Bollywood and rock 'n' roll.