Friday, March 2nd, 2007
JavaScript Crosswords
Category: Games, JavaScript
Pavel Simakov has created JavaScript Crossword Puzzle system. The sample crossword is on the gang of four software patterns. Doubly fun.
4.1 rating from 48 votes
Canvas 3D Renderer Tweaked
Category: Canvas
Hans Schmucker has updated his Canvas 3D Renderer with new sample data, a few performance tweaks, background image support, support for colored polygons and a few other tweaks here and there. The car you see is not a sprite, it’s simply an image put in front of the canvas for my amusement. Right now the Read the rest…
3.5 rating from 33 votes
ADLib: Another DHTML Library
Category: JavaScript, Library
Bart Melton has a sense of humour, and came out with ADLib: Another DHTML Library. The highlights are: XHR (of course) Behaviors (custom written, but same principle, so I used the same name) Event management Effects creation engine Hashes Array and string extensions Functions for basic styling (setStyle, addClass etc) Several DOM searching techniques ($, Read the rest…
3.4 rating from 30 votes
BuildASign: Ajax Enabled Design Tool
BuildASign is a simple Ajax tool that lets you design signs. If you fancy printing a quick sign that uses Dojo on the client side to .Net on the back end, you have found the place.
4.1 rating from 39 votes
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
X/HTML 5 Interview
Category: Standards
Ian Hickson (Hixie) has been interviewed regarding X/HTML 5. There is some good stuff in the interview including: New datagrid “which is a tree view/list view control with built-in support for AJAX-backed data stores, so you can do something like the typical Webmail view of all your tens of thousands of e-mails, but instead of Read the rest…
3.7 rating from 37 votes
Book Review: Beginning Javascript with DOM Scripting and Ajax
Category: Book Reviews
Despite its title, Beginning Javascript with DOM Scripting and Ajax by Christian Heilmann is not for those just starting out in web development. What it is, is a great resource for those that already have some experience coding dynamic web sites. The book explores the principals of DOM scripting (using the Document Object Model) to Read the rest…
3.7 rating from 31 votes
Adobe Engage: Apollo as Web+ rather than Desktop-
Category: Adobe
There has been a lot of coverage of the Adobe Engage event. Ben and I were also there and enjoyed being able to get a glimpse of what Apollo will have to offer. Today was the day of a dive into the tech itself instead of a bunch of demos (some cool, many not actually Read the rest…
3.5 rating from 20 votes
ColorJack: Visualize color theory
ColorJack allows you to visualize color theory with the sphere. This reminds us of Kuler, the user generated color app from Adobe Labs. It is pretty amazing that so many people are sharing color groups :)
4.2 rating from 32 votes
Amiga Emulated in JavaScript
Category: JavaScript
When was the last time that you played Shadow of the Beast? or launched Eyes? Well, the beauty of the internet, and a bunch of time, has enabled an JavaScript emulation engine of the Amiga. That has more “Wow” than Vista.
4.3 rating from 52 votes
MiniAjax: Ajax Showcases
Category: Showcase
MiniAjax is a site that has gathered interesting dhtml examples (many of which we have covered in the past) and put them together. They link to classics such as: Prototype Window Reflections Bubble Tooltips Ajax Tabs Google X
3.7 rating from 48 votes
