Monday, December 7th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
We posted on the underscore.js initial announcement and we liked what we saw. Jeremy Ashkenas of underscore.js pinged us to let us know that it is chuggin’ along and the library is now up to 0.5 and has had changes such as: OOP-style wrapping: _([1, 2, 3, 4, 5]).each( … ); OOP wrapping allows you Read the rest…
Friday, December 4th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
We all want better and better charting libraries. Dojo has some good stuff, Protovis is a good option, and there are many many more (put your favourite below!). The latest guy in the ring is Highcharts uses either jQuery or MooTools for some common JavaScript tasks. In addition, Internet Explorer needs ExCanvas which emulates the Read the rest...
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
Kevin Miller has updated his simply buttons library to use the button element. This library offers better looking and behaving buttons across all browsers. It does not need a javascript framework and is very easy to install and use. It is all the rage to build a perfect button and you can get some nice Read the rest...
Monday, November 9th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
I am sitting next to Thomas Fuchs at JSConf.EU and he just posted about his new library agnostic CSS animation framework called Émile (named after Émile Cohl, an early animator). Émile has a full set of CSS properties for animation (length-based and colors) and includes easing and callbacks all with less than 50 lines of Read the rest...
Thursday, November 5th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
I remember when the whole Ajax thing kicked in and JavaScript developers looked at Gmail, Gmaps, and the like and thought "I wonder what powers that?" Well, the power comes from Closure a library and set of tools that the great JS hackers built over time as they created the applications at scale. As soon Read the rest...
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Caja is one of the most promising attempts to deliver secure web applications not prone to the attacks that normal JavaScript solutions sadly enough allow for. Let's face it - the concept of global variables and the lack of sandboxed environments in addition to the fun that is browser security holes makes the web as Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, Library
Jeremy Ashkenas and the DocumentCloud team have just released Underscore.js a small library that provides all the functional programming helpers that you expect from Prototype.js or Ruby, but without extending any core JavaScript objects. Jeremy told us: This makes it a natural fit alongside jQuery, without having to worry about the conflicts and redundant functionality Read the rest...
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Category: Flash, HTML
, Library
On Monday we saw someone rewriting an HTML renderer in Canvas. Continuing the fun times we see an open source project that does the same thing, but using Flash ActionScript thanks to one of the comments on our last post: Wrapper is a cross-browser compliant HTML/CSS rendering engine written in ActionScript that sits on top Read the rest...
Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
Over on my blog I report a new release of SVG Web from the SVG Web team: Yowsers! It's another release of SVG Web, this time code named Beholder: According to the classic D&D Monster Manual, the Beholder is an "aggressive and avaricious spherical monster that is most frequently found underground." In other words, you Read the rest...
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Category: Library, Toolkit
, Yahoo!
The YUI team has put out YUI 3.0: We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release. This is a ground-up redesign of YUI: Selector-driven: YUI Read the rest...
Friday, September 18th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
Vanadium is a new client side validator that allows you to set semantic validation logic via the class attribute. The main page has examples such as: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <input class=":required" type="text"/> <input class=":integer" type="text"/> <input class=":length;4" type="text"/> <input class=":min_length;4" type="text"/> <input class=":format;/^(vanadium)+$/i" type="text"/> <input id="pass" class=":ajax;/username_checker/check.json" type="text"/> <input id="pass" class=":email" type="text"/> <input id="pass" Read the rest...
Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
Frederico Caldeira Knabben is the creator of the editor formerly known as FCKEditor. His latest update changes the name to be less controversial, and delivers a lot more than that. CKEditor 3 has been cleaned up a ton and you will happy to see the main focus: Amazing performance! Yeah... that's really a big difference. Read the rest...
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Category: Library
We have talked about Aristo, the creative commons look and feel from 280 North and Sofa, quite a few times. Allen Pike has posted a comparison of Aristo with the new Ace look and feel that SproutCore recently added. It is great to see great looking stuff coming from these open source JavaScript libraries!
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
After being rumoured and showcased at @media Ajax 2008 by Jake Archibald in a pretty epic presentation (audio) the BBC now finally went through all the red tape needed and Glow is available as open source. Glow is the BBC's own JavaScript library and in use on their sites. The reason to build an own Read the rest...
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Category: Component, GWT
, Library
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts. John told us: Canvas-rendering corrects GChart's most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice). Coupled with its existing feature set Read the rest...
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Yahoo!
Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3: We’ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 — YUI, Node, and Event — to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we’ve refined our module/submodule structure. 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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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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