Friday, June 9th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
Over at Midgard CMS, they have created protoGrowl, a JavaScript utility to bubble up event notifications in a web page. This library is inspired by the OS X tool Growl that gives a system level notification system to Mac OS X. Usage < View plain text > javascript <script language="javascript"> new protoGrowl({type: ‘info’, title: Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 7th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Toolkit
, UI
Kyle Scholz has created a Visual Wordnet based on his Force Directed Graph engine written in JavaScript. Force Directed Graphs are self-organizing, visually appealing tools for representing relational data. The look is organic, because algorithms simulate the way charged particles arrange in space. They work great in user interfaces because the user has access to Read the rest…
Category: Articles, Dojo
, Examples
, JavaScript
, Toolkit
Brian McCallister started to get a bit deeper into Dojo widgets, and kindly decided to fill us in on his work. In his piece he builds on the new dojo.widget.defineWidget: < View plain text > javascript dojo.widget.defineWidget("skife.sample.CommentPane", dojo.widget.HtmlWidget, { templatePath: "http://morphy.skife.org/src/dojo-samples/CommentPane.html", templateCssPath: "http://morphy.skife.org/src/dojo-samples/CommentPane.css", /* Default Property Values */ Read the rest…
Monday, June 5th, 2006
Category: Accessibility, Ajax
, Dojo
, JavaScript
, Library
We are seeing more and more collaboration between the open source projects and the traditional software development community. Today we see a new partnership between IBM and the Dojo Foundation: IBM today announced plans to contribute key intellectual assets to the open source community, in an effort to help companies and software developers adopt and Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Programming
DevArticles has the first part of a new series posted today – a look at the creation of a pagnation system with a little help from Ajax. You know how to use AJAX to pull rows from a database, but do you know how to create an AJAX-based system to organize the records neatly into Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Prototype
The Prototype Window Class allows you to add in-browser windows with the flick of a few lines of code (and CSS to tweak). The window features: Resizable windows Minimize/Maximize Modal Dialogs Visual Effects Skinnable Usage < View plain text > javascript win = new Window(‘window_id’, {title: "Sample", top:100, left:350}) win.getContent().innerHTML = "<h1>Hello world !!</h1>"; win.setDestroyOnClose(); Read the rest…
Friday, June 2nd, 2006
Category: Articles, JavaScript
This is perfect for Friday. Dean Edwards has been inspired by the Levels of HTML Knowledge and created a version for your JavaScript knowledge: It starts at: < View plain text > javascript alert("Hello World"); and gets to: < View plain text > javascript var Hello = new Binding({ greet: function(who) { Read the rest…
Thursday, June 1st, 2006
Category: JavaScript
It’s official, at least according to James McParlane: June 6 is “Array” and “Object.prototype” Awareness Day. I want my children to grow up in a world when coding in JavaScript does not result in a fistfight …
Category: JavaScript, Programming
Cal Henderson brings us this new (lengthy) article on ThinkVitamin.com, a look at speeding up the one thing that’s really growing large on Web 2.0-type applications – the Javascript running behind the scenes. With our so-called “Web 2.0” applications and their rich content and interaction, we expect our applications to increasingly make use of CSS Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
Neil Mix has created an extension to JavaScript called Narrative JS: Overview Narrative JavaScript is a small extension to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous operations. This makes writing asynchronous code sequences easier and increases code readability. How it Works Narrative JavaScript consists of a compiler and a runtime library. You write Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Prototype
Terry Laurenzo found that he liked “the simplicity of Prototype, the widgets/templates from Dojo and the event-based property binding support from OpenLaszlo/Flex”. This caused him to create Protowidget which builds on Prototype to add widget support a la Dojo. Widgets As the name implies, Protowidget is based on widgets. While some widgets are provided (and Read the rest…
Category: Firefox, JavaScript
, Utility
If you’ll remember a little while back, we posted about the latest release of a handy Javascript extension for Firefox that makes working with the language much simpler. Well, the folks over at the Yahoo! Interface Blog have posted even more information about it – this time, in the format of a video from a Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
Category: Examples, JavaScript
, Library
, Yahoo!
Dustin Diaz is at it again, this time discussing “custom events” and how to create and use them. A custom event is an event that you define (e.g. onDrool vs. onBlur). Dustin uses the Yahoo! UI event util library to show off how to play with events: < View plain text > javascript // Define Read the rest…
Friday, May 26th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Tip
Weird Al over at MozillaZine has written up a little known Mozilla feature known as the JavaScript subscript loader in: JavaScript Scope through “subscript loaders”. Using this you can better handle scoping issues in JavaScript (albeit Mozilla only for now). < View plain text > javascript const scopeRegistry = { subscriptLoader: Components.classes["@mozilla.org/moz/jssubscript-loader;1"] Read the rest…
Thursday, May 25th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Programming
Glen Jones has discovered a little “gotcha” while he was wokring on one of his scripts – an issue with the retrevial of the href attribute when working with the DOM. The href attribute is different to other element attributes in that the value set can be relative to the context of the page URL. Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Programming
From the Oracle Technology Network today, there’s this new tutorial aiming to help you create a very handy bit of code combining Oracle’s simple tree-based fetching and Ajax’s flexibility to create an “Ajax Memory Tree”. In this article, you will learn how to build an Ajax-based memory tree in Oracle Application Express (formerly HTML DB), Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
