For what would otherwise be considered a mundane task, this page is absolutely epic. Nice work!
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Multithreading in js has been available for a while using Web Workers [1]. They are available in most major browser (including recent IE). [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/Guide/Performance/...
Ok! Interesting. Are web workers gaining traction? This is the first time I've heard of them. Are there any major users/libraries that depend on ww?
It depends on your browser support requirements. On the Brackets project[1], we work within Chromium (and "modern browsers" with our in-browser branch), so we can rely on web workers for doing things like parsing JavaScript for autocompletion.
Web workers are quite useful and I'm sure there are a fair number of webapps that take advantage of them.
[1]: http://brackets.io/
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#23This looks great, particularly the way the website breaks down the main functionality with plain explanations and code samples. I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.
Thanks for your feedback. If it helps to know, the Q&A format on the homepage is the result of scratching my head for a while, thinking "How would I explain this to somebody? There's a lot to it, and it's all immediately relevant."
I eventually convinced myself that the last part isn't true. It could be disclosed in parts. So I decided to run the scenario in my mind instead: "I'll give somebody this library and imagine that they'll reveal their use cases one piece at a time and I'll help them through it." Then the conversation flowed naturally and came out while typing.
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#24This looks great, particularly the way the website breaks down the main functionality with plain explanations and code samples. I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.
Thanks for your feedback. If it helps to know, the Q&A format on the homepage is the result of scratching my head for a while, thinking "How would I explain this to somebody? There's a lot to it, and it's all immediately relevant." I eventually convinced myself that the last part isn't true. It could be disclosed in parts. So I decided to run the scenario in my mind instead: "I'll give somebody this library and imagi…
Loved the format!
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#25Your demo page is slick. I was able to parse and inspect a couple files I had laying around locally. Toggling the header and typing options worked great.
Awesome, glad it's useful. I was unsure how visitors would feel about having to open the developer tools, but I feel like they give you a better way to explore the results than just stringifying some JSON.
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#26Yes! Thank you! We're using the d3 CSV parser for our CSV upload functionality [1] but are having a ton of issues with performance and cross-browser support. Can't wait to try this out.
[1] http://geocod.io
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#27Haven't used the tool. Not sure I'll need it in the immediate future. But damn I love the website and how quickly and easily I understood what it does.
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#28This looks great, particularly the way the website breaks down the main functionality with plain explanations and code samples. I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.
Thanks for your feedback. If it helps to know, the Q&A format on the homepage is the result of scratching my head for a while, thinking "How would I explain this to somebody? There's a lot to it, and it's all immediately relevant." I eventually convinced myself that the last part isn't true. It could be disclosed in parts. So I decided to run the scenario in my mind instead: "I'll give somebody this library and imagi…
love the conversational style of the documentation!
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#29This looks great, particularly the way the website breaks down the main functionality with plain explanations and code samples. I know that there's a bit of a bugbear with some people when it comes to reimplementing CSV parsing but having it in-browser could be very handy.
Thanks for your feedback. If it helps to know, the Q&A format on the homepage is the result of scratching my head for a while, thinking "How would I explain this to somebody? There's a lot to it, and it's all immediately relevant." I eventually convinced myself that the last part isn't true. It could be disclosed in parts. So I decided to run the scenario in my mind instead: "I'll give somebody this library and imagi…
What really got me was the desperation in the "voice" of the questions, slowly being won over by a calm father figure. I've never had to parse CSV in the browser, but now I feel like I should. Powerful stuff!
I'm also a big fan of libraries where the library name is also the API (ie Papa Parse -> Papa.parse()). It just fills me with glee.
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#30Slight off-topic, sorry – I'm having a hard time reading the text on the photo background: http://i.imgur.com/StACWqu.png
Oops. That's awful. What browser are you using?
You can use http://aboutbrowser.com to share not just your browser, but it's capabilities & css support too.