Friday, November 9th, 2007
Category: Games, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
Gary Haran wanted to see how well the latest versions of Prototype and Script.aculo.us worked, so he created a game, Same Name. The 179 lines of JavaScript has fun with animations and sound.
Monday, October 15th, 2007
Category: Ajax, Fun
, Games
, GWT
Ryan Dewsbury, creator of gpokr is no stranger to Ajaxian as we did a writeup about his Ajax poker app last year. Ryan has since released another Ajax-based game called Kdice. Kdice is an online strategy game built using the Google Web Toolkit. The goal of the KDice is to win all territories. At the Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007
Paolo Ardoino has created a fun little web game called Be Quick Or Be Dead: Game rendering is very simple: ctx = dojox.gfx.createSurface creates 2D drawing surface images, text, rectangles, … are all shapes that can be created on that surface (i.e. img = ctx.createImage(); ) shapes could be modified with setShape method (i.e. img.setShape(newShape); Read the rest…
Friday, August 24th, 2007
Category: Framework, Fun
, Games
, Showcase
, Yahoo!
In the “I-can’t-believe-it’s-not-Flash” category, Robert Schultz pointed us to his amazing World of Solitaire website, implemented with YUI, MochiKit and PlotKit: It’s hard to single out a favorite feature, from it’s ability to rescale the size of the cards when you resize the browser window to its impressive animations and smooth drag-and-drop. Definitely worth a Read the rest…
Friday, August 17th, 2007
Category: Games
Bryan Brunton has created Empires, a game of expansion and conflict set in an alternate history prior to World War II. You and your opponents are leaders of the most powerful nations in the world. Empires was based upon the board games Attack! and Axis and Allies. Dojo, DWR, and JavaServer Faces are the weapons Read the rest…
Monday, August 6th, 2007
The Opera folk have released an API that allows you, the developer, to be able to monitor all of the remotes that are connected with The Wii Remote API. This means that you can watch up to four people buzzing around the screen: Polling the status of a remote The Wii Remote data is accessed Read the rest...
Tuesday, July 31st, 2007
Scott Schiller has updated his dHTML Arkanoid game to work on the iPhone. Although the mouse events meant that the game wouldn't work as-is, Scott added an extra div if the browser is an iPhone, and it handles click events. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: if (isIphone) { this.iphoneTarget = document.createElement('div'); this.iphoneTarget.href Read the rest...
Monday, July 23rd, 2007
Category: Games, iPhone
, JavaScript
, Prototype
I know it isn't Friday, but this is a fun tutorial for any JavaScripter. Michal Wallace has written up a thorough step by step tutorial that walks you through the creation of Brickslayer using Prototype. Setting Up Shop: Tools you will need and initial versions of the source files. The Paddle: Our First Sprite: Creating Read the rest...
Friday, July 20th, 2007
64squar.es is a completely free, fully featured and easy to use online chess site with a clean simple interface. Users can play opponents in real-time by dragging and dropping the pieces just like a real chess board. Ajax is used to make your moves on the opponent's board and vice versa. We are trying to Read the rest...
Friday, June 8th, 2007
Category: Games
Kevin Hoang Le and his team have created an Ajax Chinese Chess game. It's true Ajax (as opposed to just Javascript) since all the move computations of the "computer" player is done on the server and the data is passed in JSON format back and forth. The Javascript code is entirely unobtrusive and weights only Read the rest...
Friday, May 18th, 2007
You can never have enough Tetris on a Friday. Sergey Popov created this version. Play away.
Friday, April 20th, 2007
Category: Fun, Games
, JavaScript
Scott Schiller is a great participate on Ajaxian, and works over at Yahoo! How I hadn't found his DHTML Arkanoid before amazes me, and it is the perfect Friday game. This is a real labour of love. Not only did he create a great version of the game, but he stores high scores, and users Read the rest...
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Azer Koçulu developed a multi-player platform for Connect4 using php and javascript. It is possible to play the game simultaneously in multiple tables and chat with your opponents b y opening multiple game windows. So, if you are few up wasting some time at work on Twitter, jump over and play some Connect 4!
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Category: Games, GWT
, Showcase
Nich Tyrrell of InTime Games created a new Ajax site with a strange name indeed... Eat Poop U Cat. The site uses a combination of Google Web Toolkit, Amazon S3, and Amazon EC2, along with an in browser drawing utility that uses the Canvas element to get it all working. Its an online version of Read the rest...
Thursday, March 8th, 2007
Sebastian Garcia has spent a year on Primera and I think it shows. Primera is a multiplayer environment where you control an avatar that moves around an isometric-scrollable map and you are able to see what other people are doing/saying, and it runs entirely on dhtml. Primera has been developed from scratch. The server side Read the rest...
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
Category: Games, JavaScript
Pavel Simakov has created JavaScript Crossword Puzzle system. The sample crossword is on the gang of four software patterns. Doubly fun.
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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Here\'s the situation:
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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[div]I\'m trying to set a php session variable from a radio button. The idea is that a jquery function is called...
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