Sunday, October 1st, 2006
Category: Library, Tutorial
, UI
, Yahoo!
This tutorial is an excellent overview of the YUI panel control. Each of the seven section includes a description, a live example, and a code snippet. The YUI panel widget solves a lot of issues hand-rolled solutions doing the same thing have: You can allow the user to drag and drop the panel around to Read the rest…
Thursday, September 28th, 2006
Category: Component, UI
, Yahoo!
Raphael Bauduin has created a a YUI based Slideshow widget. It features: on demand loading of remote slides configurable transition effect easily extenstible, with new effects defined in 6 lines of code. A sample slideshow instance: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: slideshow2 = new YAHOO.myowndb.slideshow("yui-sldshw-displayer2", [ { type: 'remote_html', Read the rest...
Monday, September 25th, 2006
Category: Sencha, Showcase
, Yahoo!
Jack Slocum of Yahoo! has created an Ajax front end to phpBB that looks a lot like Yahoo! Mail, and applications in general. (via Alexander Kirk)
Thursday, September 14th, 2006
Category: Email, Showcase
, Yahoo!
Yahoo! Mail's big-time Ajax upgrade finally goes live today (via TechCrunch). True to the times, it's still a "Beta", but it's now open to the general public in the US and 18 international markets (from ReadWriteWeb). The company acquired Oddpost - a key inspiration for the new interface - two years ago, not long after Read the rest...
Category: Component, Sencha
, Yahoo!
Rodrigo Diniz has taken the YUI Grid created by Jack SLocum and made a pagable version. In this code I "override" some functions to make the grid pageable. The sort function is also changed , since I have a paged grid the client function would give me wrong results by sorting only the visible rows. Read the rest...
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006
Category: Examples, Sencha
, Yahoo!
Jack Slocum has written a sample application using the new Grid Component from the Yahoo! UI library: The JS documentation for the new Grid component contains alot of classes and alot of inherited methods. For someone who is not very advanced with object-oriented development, it may seem complex or difficult to trace the various inherited Read the rest...
Saturday, August 19th, 2006
Back in June we talked about how Yahoo! Photos: will be relaunching and it has happened. What are the most interesting features? Slick new interface with drag-and-drop, tagging and search features to really help simplify organization The ability to download high-resolution photos and order prints online for pick-up at local Target stores Great sharing capabilities Read the rest...
Tuesday, July 18th, 2006
Unless you've been living under a rock, you know that Yahoo! has launched their new homepage version that includes Ajax-enbled content all over the place. It's a great improvement over their homepage from the past, but it does shift more away from the "we're mainly a search engine" idea they had before. The new site Read the rest...
Friday, July 14th, 2006
Category: Component, Toolkit
, UI
, Yahoo!
Bill Scott of Yahoo! has written up a nice new component on top of the Yahoo! UI library. The Carousel component lets you flick left and right through content (images). You will quickly see that there is a lot of documentation and a real API that allows for many uses: Static HTML - Carousel content Read the rest...
Monday, July 10th, 2006
Julien Couvreur has posted on an interesting topic he's been working with lately (along with Jason Levitt) - API authentication for mashup applications, both Ajax-enabled and not. Jason Levitt has been teasing me in our discussions on cross-domain requests about Yahoo's upcoming authentication API. The recurring problem: how to offer web APIs that can be Read the rest...
Thursday, June 22nd, 2006
Category: Remoting, Scriptaculous
, Toolkit
, Yahoo!
Cheng Guangnan reports on a potential issue with the autocompletion/suggestion support offered by both Yahoo UI and Scriptaculous libraries. The problem involves parallel calls - there's the potential for an initial list of suggestions to be displayed after a subequent list. His screencasts show what's going on. 1. “2006†is typed. 2. A request of Read the rest...
Thursday, June 8th, 2006
People talk of the Yahoo! Flickr acquisition, butYahoo! Photos has many, many more users. So, it is about time to see it get a face lift, which Yahoo! has done, and is rolling out a limited beta release. Product highlights include: Drag-and-drop functionality for easy organization and photo sharing Photo tagging—or labeling—for easy viewing and 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: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: // Define Event var Read the rest...
Friday, May 19th, 2006
Category: Games, Showcase
, Yahoo!
Dustin Diaz is at it again. This time he has created Tetris using the Yahoo! UI utilities. The game uses a combination of: Event Utility DOM Collection It even looks nice :) Play Tetris NOTE: there is a SVG version of Tetris too
Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
We have all run into the problem where we like OpenRico's accordian widget, and Dojo's rich text widget, and Yahoo!'s autocomplete widget. We can download all of the JS code for each framework, but wouldn't it be nice if there was real integration? TIBCO has obviously thought the same thing, as they just announced how Read the rest...
Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006
Yahoo has launched the latest in their family of sites - the Yahoo Tech resource for finding information about all products tech. The site provides a clean interface to information on technology-related products using technologies like Flash, a tag cloud, and my personal favorite feature, the Ajax-enabled dynamic product search. From the main page, simply 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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