Pat Cavit.com

I’m a Frontend Engineer/Web Developer working at ArenaNet in Bellevue, WA. I specialize in complicated JS applications and implementing cross-browser designs. I’m obsessed with making sites that are as fast as possible and accessible to everybody. Contact me via email: pcavit@gmail.com.

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  1. Basic YUI 3 Plugin tutorial

    - July 2nd, 2010

    Ever since the release of the PR2 version of YUI3 the library has support for writing plugins. Unfortunately, this doesn’t seem to be taken advantage of all that often & comes up a lot in the IRC channel as something people don’t understand. So let’s see if we can’t clarify the matter a little. At [...]

  2. With the launch of the ArenaNet Blog I’ve been working a lot with YUI3 since it is the JS framework that powers all the interactivity on the site. The other great thing it does is provide a Loader that can pull in JS files on-demand as defined by a configuration object you pass to it. [...]

  3. This is an update to my previous post, Programmer’s Notepad and JSLint. After a few dev versions where the tools didn’t work they’re back in fighting shape. There were a few annoyances with my previous version around the actual running of JSLint. The WSH build of JSLint on www.jslint.com is set to return after only [...]

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  9. Love when a module I'm using turns out to be on the CDN. #YUI3 gallery is seriously the best thing. Also my 3rd CDN-hosted module is live! # 1 day ago