Thursday, April 5th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Utility
The group behind Freebase have released MTJ, the templating library they created for their own use: Mjt makes it very simple to take data from a web service and format it in a browser, with no server support. The templates are hosted and delivered as static HTML, and they are compiled and applied entirely in Read the rest…
Tuesday, April 3rd, 2007
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Library
pack:tag is a static-resource compressing JSP-Taglib. It caches ad hoc compressed JavaScript or CSS in memory (in a Java Servlet) or in a generated file. It works transparently to the developer and the compressing-algorithms are pluggable. Features Minification of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheets Caching to filesystem or memory (servlet) When caching to memory, the Read the rest…
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, Library
, Unobtrusive JS
Dan Yoder has created the Cruiser Behaviors Library, extensible stylesheets for decorating DOM elements with interfaces and event handlers. Cruiser uses Prototype, and is inspired by the Behaviour library itself. A simple example shows the library in action. A new behaviour of “strike out a link with the special class of ‘demo’” is added to Read the rest…
Monday, April 2nd, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
twoBirds Lib 2.0, a library that handles on-demand loading problems, has been released by Frank Thuerigen. It works asynchronous and allows out-of-order execution of JS code. JS objects can recursively load other JS objects. Take a look at the prototype to see it in action: In the “user” field top right enter a character combination Read the rest…
Friday, March 30th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Security
Clipperz is an online password system that contains a JavaScript library to provide web developers with an extensive and efficient set of cryptographic functions. It is released under a BSD license. Clipperz include portions of code from few third party libraries, such as: MochiKit, YUI and Ext to allows smoother and quicker coding. In order Read the rest…
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
Franky Braem and his team have created wxJavaScript, a UI toolkit that started out as a port of wxWidgets: But at this time, wxJavaScript is a lot more. wxJavaScript has an Apache module mod_wxjs, an SQLite module, … And many other modules are planned. So with wxJavaScript, you can write server side scripts for generating Read the rest…
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Category: Component, JavaScript
, Library
, Prototype
Ryan Johnson is up to his tricks again. This time he has created Control.Modal, an unobtrussive CSS modal window based on the Prototype library. It weighs in at around 8K and hit a sweet spot for some functionality. The Prototype window class was overkill, and he needed more than just a lightbox). Example Code < Read the rest…
Category: Announcements, JavaScript
, Library
We get several emails a day from people letting us know about a new XHR wrapper. Recently we have been hearing about new libraries from leaders in the community such as Dean Edwards and now Dustin Diaz. Here is what Dustin has to say about DED|Chain, his new framework that builds on YUI: DED|Chain is Read the rest…
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Category: Articles, JavaScript
, Library
Dean Edwards has followed up on his base2 library posting with another way to use base2 and rules for JavaScript Library Authors. In “the other way” Dean shows how to use the library as library functions instead of strapping on to objects, and his library rules are: Be unobtrusive Object.prototype is verboten! Do Not Over-extend Read the rest…
Category: Dojo, JavaScript
, Library
David Alberts of yWorks GmbH has created yFiles AJAX, a library for creating web based diagrams built on top of the Dojo Toolkit. A couple of demos are available such as: Graph Viewer The Graph Viewer Demo Application demonstrates viewing a graph with zooming, panning, overview and additional node and edge information. Realizing a slightly Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
, UI
Steffen Rusitschka is keeping the rounded corner legend alive with his new RUZEE.ShadedBorder JavaScript library. Why another? JavaScript-only Photoshop(tm)-like rendering without external images Round corners Drop shadows Glow effects Borders with different widths Full support for liquid designs Anti-Aliasing On-hover support (except for IE 6.0) Disable some of the corners, e.g. bottom-left Change borders on-the-fly Read the rest…
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
JsonMarshaller is a Java 1.5 library that allows marshalling and unmarshalling of JSON objects to and from Java objects. This project’s goal is above all ease of use, transparency and static type safety. Example If you have the following Java class: < View plain text > java @Entity class Book { @Value private Read the rest…
Wednesday, March 21st, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
Dean Edwards has come out with what he calls Yet Another JavaScript Library Without Documentation. But, this is from Dean, not your cousin Bubba, so what is interesting about it? Highlights A fast implementation the Selectors API Fixes broken browser implementations of the DOM events module including document.createEvent(), dispatchEvent(), addEventListener(), etc Supports DOMContentLoaded Fixes getAttribute()/setAttribute() Read the rest…
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, Library
Brett Taylor wanted to see if he could make a parallax effect in HTML+CSS+JS and make it cross-browser and came up with Parallax Backgrounds. Scroll around and you will see that the text and content scrolls normally, but the different background layers scroll at different speed. Maybe as useful as SKIP INTRO, but a nice Read the rest…
Monday, March 19th, 2007
Category: Browsers, JavaScript
, Library
Santosh Rajan has struggled with keyboard handling across browsers. His article discusses some of the pain, and he came up with a simple wrapper to help out: document.onkeydown = function(e) {handleKeys(e)} document.onkeypress = function(e) {handleKeys(e)} var nonChar = false; function handleKeys(e) { var char; var evt = (e) ? e : window.event; //IE reports window.event Read the rest…
Category: Examples, JavaScript
, Library
, Showcase
Guillermo Rauch is a sixteen year old hacker who created a fancy menu using CSS and JavaScript based on mootools. You can use his SlideList and attach away. < View plain text > javascript window.addEvent(‘domready’, function() { new SlideList($E(‘ul’, ‘fancymenu’), {transition: Fx.Transitions.backOut, duration: 700, onClick: function(ev, item) { ev.stop(); }}); }); Now you too Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
