Monday, March 9th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Sigurd Magnusson recently told us about ModelAdmin, a just-released feature in the open source SilverStripe CMS that uses jQuery to build rich user interfaces to let every day people manage data in a web-app. This free code will let strong PHP+JS developers build really great web interfaces to be used by non-technical people. You write Read the rest…
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Category: Showcase
I saw two posts at the same time on the topic of multiple-file uploading from a Web app which is a topic that we have covered many times before. This time we have our good friend Scott Schiller posting on the Flickr uploader. He details the user experience from file selection, to progress, to completion, Read the rest…
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
Category: Articles, Examples
, Showcase
Ryan Doherty has one of those really nice articles that walk you through how to do something that should be easy in CSS but isn't, until you know how: Cross Browser Inline Block. By the end of it all you will have this: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <style> li { Read the rest...
Wednesday, February 18th, 2009
SitePen, via Adobe sponsorship, has created an open source queue manager for Netflix called Queued. The entire Dojo toolkit contains much more functionality than any single application needs, so the task of building applications often comes down to figuring out what style of coding you’ll use rather than learning how to use different components and Read the rest...
Monday, February 16th, 2009
Juraj Sukop has created a fun project called Typism that lets you build fonts on the Web: typism is a web-based font editor. It is a public site where anyone can create a font for others to use and to study, to modify and to copy. You write the description of a typeface, design the Read the rest...
Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
, Mozilla
, Showcase
, Utility
Ben and I are excited to be releasing the first concept out of the Mozilla Developer Lab. As you know, we are big believers in the Open Web. Chris Wilson mentioned that many people are still building Web applications on top of browser technology from yester year. What if we built on more leading edge Read the rest...
Tuesday, February 10th, 2009
Category: Showcase, Utility
, Yahoo!
Stuart Colville has announced a fun little project that he and fellow collaborators Ed Elliot and Cyril Doussin have worked on. Their Favicon Generator lets you upload an image and then go in and tweak the pixels :) Although many modern web browsers support favicons saved as GIFs, PNGs or other popular file formats all Read the rest...
Jon Combe has implemented a world map using Canvas to draw it all, for his JAWStats website statistics package. You can tweak the color combinations and highlight areas, but no clicking and moving around just yet. Here are some of Jon's thoughts: The smallest places aren't included on the map, so if you live in Read the rest...
Matthew Russell has taken Shindig, an OpenSocial implementation, and added the shine that you need in a portal including drag and drop of the components. Click the image above to see it in action. Matthew posts some of the details of the implementation: When doing anything like this, you need infrastructure. For this part of Read the rest...
What would a fun Ajax interface to piano composition look like? Jason Freeman, a prof in the music department of the Georgia Institute of Technology has created an interface using GWT called Piano Etudes. His project lets users create and share their own versions of short piano pieces (and print them out as musical scores Read the rest...
Thursday, February 5th, 2009
Jérôme Wax has created a really nice PS3-like slideshow mashing up Flickr with Canvas to drive. Where you place your mouse will effect the movement and speed of the slideshow from left to right. Nice and snappy.
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Chris Carpenter at Digital Carpenter sent us a link to one of his projects: Doculicious. It's a fairly complete form builder product, including a GUI form designer (complete with undo, floating collapsable attribute palette, etc.), cool on-line form entry interface (also with undo), and PDF export. Doculicious uses Dojo under the covers. Nice work!
Friday, January 30th, 2009
Category: Aptana, JavaScript
, jQuery
, Showcase
Live Ajax chat is one of those Comet 101 kind of examples (as RSS readers were to Ajax back in the day!). We saw a couple of items from this meme recently. First, jChat, a showcase chat application using Jaxer: Jaxer ships with a number of basic samples, but I've seen quite a few people Read the rest...
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Ray Cromwell has the ability to do amazing things in the browser. We have often linked to his work on Chronoscope and more, and this time he has a screencast showing of Timescope "our charting engine, written in GWT, runnable as Servlet or Android native application, renders huge numbers of points at interactive rates, scriptable, Read the rest...
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
Category: Showcase
Ajax File Browser isn't just a set of tree components. It implements the WebDAV API, and features: Cross-browser, cross-OS: runs in IE, Firefox, Safari and Chrome WebDAV RFC 2518 compliant POST-upload and upload progress support And coming soon: Locks management IE 8 and improved IE 7 support Upload to third-party WebDAV servers More programming features
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Category: Showcase
AppStore is an interesting web app written using Cappuccino to give a view of the Apple AppStore on the Web (linking through when appropriate). It has an iPhone-y like interface, and you will notice very custom components (e.g. the drop downs).
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
We\'re using AJAX to dynamically load content using a tabbed...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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