Friday, January 19th, 2007
Category: Articles, JavaScript
, Library
Aaron Newton has updated his excellent Mootorial documentation for Mootools. He has updated the docs for the near complete 1.0 release, and has migrates the docs to a wiki, so others can share his load. The examples have the cool feature of plugging into the Firebug console, and at various points you can execute this Read the rest…
Dmitry Koterov has written JsHttpRequest a light wrapper on top of XHR and friends that features: Cross-browser compatibility. Library works with IE5.0+, Mozilla 1.7+, FireFox 1.0+, Opera 7.3+, Safari (“+” means “in specified and newer versions”). By this token, code could work without ActiveX and XMLHttpRequest support (but if these capabilities are avalilable, they are Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 17th, 2007
Category: Comet, Dojo
, Examples
, JavaScript
, Library
SitePen and Lightstreamer have been working together to create a project that integrates Dojo’s Charting and Filtering Table widgets with Lightstreamer’s Comet server. The demo shows real-time stock lists that stream through and are charted below. The full source code for the demo is also provided. Some people think that Comet isn’t as easy as Read the rest…
Sunday, January 14th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Programming
Dan Webb asks what are your JavaScript essentials? Those bits and pieces you can’t live without that get copy/pasted from project to project. His pragmatic list includes the $ function, getElementsByClassName, Dean’s event handling, the JS 1.6 array methods, and the DOMContentLoaded event. His full script that he guarantees he _won’t_ support is here. Do Read the rest…
Monday, January 1st, 2007
Category: Calendar, Component
, Google
, JavaScript
, Library
Christian Decker wanted to access Google Calendar’s new JSON services in a simple way, so he has created, and shared GCalendar, an API for doing just that. < View plain text > javascript var cal = new Calendar(“7cghno42lleqpbihmoi5qiikm8%40group.calendar.google.comâ€); cal.onsuccess = function(c){ alert(c); } cal.loadFeed();
Category: JavaScript, Library
Brad Neuberg has announced a new Purple Include release, which gives you an even easily way to slurp in partial data from an external URL: It means that you can include and display fragments of one HTML page in another without copying and pasting any content. The new feature is the #quote(some … other) part Read the rest…
Category: Canvas, JavaScript
, Library
, Showcase
The jsFlickrSlideshow is a JavaScript component that wraps the canvas tag to display images from Flickr. Check out the project home page View the Demo Download the code
Monday, December 25th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Prototype
Are you a Mootools user and you wish that you could use the Enumerable coolness from Prototype? Bas Wenneker has ported the functions over, and has written up the experience. I really like the Prototype Framework and the functionality that comes with it, but I like Mootools even more because it’s so damn small and Read the rest…
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
Category: ColdFusion, JavaScript
, Library
We don’t mention Coldfusion enough. Sorry guys. Rey Bango told us about a JavaScript version of cfdump: The Dump method is based on one of the tags available in Coldfusion ( <cfdump>) providing the ability to display simple and complex variables in a user friendly way that is perfect for debugging/inspecting data. There is no Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Library
You have to hand it to the jQuery guys, they work really hard with their community. There have been a few posts recently that relate to the jQuery world: jQuery 1.0.4 Release A new 1.0.4 release focused on updates to the Ajax functionality: Extensions to $.ajax() Add extra headers to an Ajax request using beforeSend Read the rest…
Tuesday, December 12th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
Jonathan Weiss has released version 0.2. of his tooltip.js library: The new version follows the mouse correctly on Firefox (thanks to Graham TerMarsch) and can apply a constant delta when displaying the tooltip. This can be useful if your CSS rules include absolute positioning that can result in a constant offset. Another nice addition (by Read the rest…
Monday, December 11th, 2006
Category: Articles, JavaScript
, Library
If you have ever wondered how to use the Bresenham algorithm to draw lines in browsers, it is your lucky day. The article teaches us the way, and you end up with an API such as: < View plain text > javascript var g = new Graphics(); g.drawLine(100,50,200,70); g.paint();
Thursday, December 7th, 2006
Category: Announcements, DWR
, JavaScript
, Library
, Toolkit
Joe Walker has announced the first release candidate for DWR 2.0, the popular Java remoting toolkit. New in a nutshell JavaScript Proxy API DWR can dynamically generate JavaScript from a Java API. This is done at runtime rather than compile time, so we can use it to remote control many browsers. This makes it very Read the rest…
Friday, December 1st, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
Edwin Khodabakchian and Olivier Devaux started off integrating Google Custom Search capabilities into Vulnpedia.com, using the Google JavaScript tools. They wanted to go beyond this, and tell their story in Experience #1: Miro, Ajaxlets and the Google Custom Search API which goes through various iterations of the project. It includes a tutorial on Miro, A Read the rest…
Thursday, November 30th, 2006
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Utility
Stuart Colville has developed a tool for generating DOM methods from an HTML snippet called DOMTool: The idea is that you drop a snippet of HTML in the input and the tool puts it into the document with innerHTML and then loops through that structure to generate the DOM methods needed to append that piece Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
Frank Monnerjahn took the work from here and created a Prototype Event extension which makes it trivial to use the mouse wheel in Prototype with Event.observe(..). The demo shows this in action. The Code < View plain text > javascript /* * Orginal: http://adomas.org/javascript-mouse-wheel/ * prototype extension by "Frank Monnerjahn" themonnie @gmail.com */ Object.extend(Event, { Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
