Monday, December 22nd, 2008
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
Adrien Friggeri has taken the music player ui and spent some time to create a really nice gestures library that allows you to add mouse gestures to a web page, supports complex (i.e. sequences of) gestures and provides visual feedback through the use of a canvas element. Example code looks like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: Mimeparse.bestMatch(['application/xbel+xml', 'text/xml'], 'text/*;q=0.5,*/*; q=0.1'); The above code is from a JavaScript port of Joe Gregorio's mimeparse library that "provides basic functions for handling mime-types. It can handle matching mime-types against a list of media-ranges. See section 14.1 of the HTTP specification RFC 2616 for a complete explanation." Using it you Read the rest...
Friday, December 19th, 2008
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Library
Joe Walker and team have announced the first RC for DWR 3.0. We asked Joe to tell us what is new: DWR now supports: varargs method overloading typed parameters binary file upload/download it has a set of new types it can marshall DWR will let you use JavaScript to implement Java interfaces (e.g. to register Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, Showcase
David King has created a small JavaScript library dlink that styles your links to let the user know if the link is internal, external, a subdomain, an anchor on the same page, or an email link. To setup, you can simply: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script type="text/javascript" src="http://oopstudios.com/dlink/dlink.js"></script> <!-- use class=dlink --> <div class="dlink"> Read the rest...
Thursday, December 18th, 2008
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
Pixastic uses <canvas>'s ability to expose raw pixel information to perform Photoshop-style image manipulation effects all in your standards-based browser. For an example of Pixastic in action, the library's authors have built a cute little Photoshop clone in a browser: Here's an example of using the underlying API: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var img = Read the rest...
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Mobile
Jeffrey Sharkey has created OilCan a thin wrapper on top of the WebKit shipping on Android that allows you to install userscripts that allow you to access to Android "Intents". Intents are very nice abstractions that allow you to access large components and reuse them in different ways. Romain Guy has a nice post on Read the rest...
Tuesday, December 16th, 2008
Category: JavaScript
Alex Russell decided to rewrite and create Census 2 to act as a new benchmark for various RIA techniques. This is based on the the original Census benchmark done by James Ward of Adobe. There are several goals of this re-write: Fairness. Tests need to be run multiple times for them to be representative in Read the rest...
Category: Java, JavaScript
The UML diagram above is from Matt Prokes as he creates Java-like interfaces for JavaScript. He has a full example: An example of an object which requires an implementation of the interface. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: //This code is valid, and the execution will be successful. function executeInterface1(executeThis){ var castedIface = executeThis.cast('TestInterface'); castedIface.testMethod1(1,2,3); Read the rest...
Monday, December 15th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Library
Drew Diller has created a helper library in the "yup, you still have to get things working in IE 6" department. DD_belatedPNG adds PNG support to IE6 that works with background-repeat and background-position. You just do this: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <!--[if IE 6]> <script src="DD_belatedPNG.js"></script> <script> DD_belatedPNG.fix('.png_bg'); /* EXAMPLE */ Read the rest...
Friday, December 12th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, JSON
I like getting data from the web and I love JSON - as it is easy to use. The issue is that not many things on the web come as JSON from the get-go. Hence we need converters. You can use cURL and beautiful soup or roll your own hell of regular expressions. Alternatively you Read the rest...
Category: Apple, Framework
, JavaScript
The Cappucinno team has a new release, 0.6 that include: New language addition to Objective-J: The @accessors keyword to eliminate the boiler plate code of writing setters and getters. Read more about it here. Support for more classes like CPTimer. Performance improvements all around, but especially in Objective-J thanks to a major rewrite of the Read the rest...
Category: Examples, JavaScript
Steffen Rusitschka has a nice detailed post on inheritance with JavaScript, different ways you can go, and side effects of the decision. From, PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var A = function(){}; // This is the constructor of "A" A.prototype.value = 1; A.prototype.test = function() { alert(this.value); } var a = new A(); // create an Read the rest...
Tuesday, December 9th, 2008
Category: JavaScript
As soon as I read John's post on JavaScript Language Abstractions I knew that it would draw a lot of chatter and fuzz. John started with: Pyjamas, GWT, and Objective-J all hinge around a central concept: Abstracting away the authoring of JavaScript-heavy web applications by allowing the developer to program entirely in their natively language Read the rest...
Monday, December 8th, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Server
Malte Ubl is having a lot of fun here :) He has created a "massively parallel crowd-sourced JavaScript app server cloud" a.k.a. SETI for running JavaScript code. This is how it works: When a user makes a request to the site ...the request is handled by a Google App Engine application ...that puts the request Read the rest...
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
Eiten Suez, author of jMatter, has been up to some fun hacking recently. He just released CanvasTurtle a JavaScript and Canvas version of the old favourite TurtlePascal. You can build snow flakes with code like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function side(size, level) { if (level==0) { fd(size); Read the rest...
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008
Category: JavaScript
Marcus Westin (who we featured on finger print) gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup on a top that is very interesting: One common issue in my experience are intricate dependencies between the UI and data models. Decoupling these is a huge benefit with respect to maintainability. The PubSub model is a great way Read the rest...
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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