Friday, April 9th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Utility
Ryan Stout (of BustaName fame) has created ExceptionHub, a place that holds JavaScript exceptions from your apps, for you to peruse. In an attempt to make error tracking easier in JavaScript, we are releasing exceptionhub.com into beta. ExceptionHub lets you drop a few lines of code into your site and it will track all errors Read the rest…
Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Geolocation functionality is hot. Every app you see now wants to ID where you're at and help you find cool things around you. The great thing is that building this functionality into your applications is getting easier and easier. For example, Eric Ferraiuolo wanted to create an app that showed off the features in YUI Read the rest...
Wednesday, April 7th, 2010
Category: JavaScript
I first saw real usage of "comma-first" JavaScript style via Ryan Dahl of Node.js fame. My eyes were a little scarred at first, but now we are seeing the reasoning behind it: Note how the errors pop out in the comma-first style. The object literal cases will throw, though a final trailing comma will cause Read the rest...
Category: Apple
We heard a little about PastryKit, a cool library from Apple that makes great iPhone apps using the Web. Now we see the mysterious AdLib which seems to be similar but gives you goodness on the iPad instead. Jim Hoskins checked it out: Curiosity got the best of me, so I loaded the page in Read the rest...
Category: Cappuccino
The Cappuccino team have gotten a new version of the toolkit available before JSConf. Version 0.8 comes with auto-spriting, new components, new tools, all on top of CommonJS and Jake. Check out some of the new components: and the rest: Automagic Image Spriting We alluded to this feature a little while ago when we first Read the rest...
Category: Browsers, Mozilla
, Performance
As part of their on-going efforts to engage directly with the web developer community, Mozilla hosted a Web Caching Summit earlier this week to discuss how the web platform could better meet the needs of developers. In attendance were developers who work on Facebook, Google Search, Microsoft Office Live, Twitter, Yahoo, SproutCore, and Palm webOS. Read the rest...
Category: HTML
Jonathan Snook wrote about HTML5 forms and how they are coming. One of the biggest parts of HTML5 is the fact that we get lots of new tags as well as the APIs that we talk most often about. Part of this is forms, and the new types that we get: search tel url email Read the rest...
Tuesday, April 6th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Showcase
We covered the original Amberjack library that offers on-page demos. Arash Yalpani is back with Amberjack 2, which groks DOM node highlighting. The main page shows how you embed a tour right into the page: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <div class="ajTourDef" id="defaultTour" style="display:none" title="http://amberjack2.org/"> <div title="http://amberjack2.org/"> <div title="{id:'logo',padding:15,trbl:'brr'}"> <p Read the rest...
DOM extension is one of the biggest mistakes Prototype.js has ever done. The above quote comes from the infamous Kangax (of Prototype Core). He kindly goes into graphic detail on why it is heinous, and how Prototype 2.0 will not follow this mistake. Although it seemed great, in practice it didn't work because of: Cross Read the rest...
Monday, April 5th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Prototype
Andrew Dupont and the the Prototype team have announced the first RC of Prototype 1.7 which changes the selector engine to Sizzle, a new event API, has new layout/dimensions API, and more. Element#on Element#on is a new way to access the Prototype event API. It provides first-class support for event delegation and simplifies event handler Read the rest...
Firefox was the Web runtime that gave us the best Web developer tools... some built-in, and then the likes of Firebug. We are seeing more, newer tools coming out of Mozilla. David Dahl, Firefox engineer, is working on a fun new console heads up display: Create an interactive Console to help web developers understand everything Read the rest...
Working on mobile Web apps such as the Facebook app on webOS offers one huge advantage over standard desktop development. You can code to a single runtime (in our case, WebKit). This means that crazy hacks can go away as you use functionality such as border-image. Kevin Decker is an engineer on my team, and Read the rest...
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Category: Apple
I am sure that a fair few of you have your iPad order honing in from China (I got a WiFi one and use Mobile Hotspot when I need to use the carrier networks. Some fun deals right now ;). As the Quake demo shows, you can do a lot with the Web, and we Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript
Ben Cherry continues to write nice detailed posts on JavaScript. This time he delves into the magic of Object - primitive conversions. He post has some good fodder for wtfjs as he shows details of toString, valueOf, and implicit fun. Take a simple example like population: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function population(country, pop) { Read the rest...
Thursday, April 1st, 2010
Ben and I are often touting the fact that we are about to see amazing Web applications as browsers support more and more of "HTML5" and the engines under the hood have become world class. The GWT team has developed something that truly shows off this engine in their port of Quake2 to GWT. Seeing Read the rest...
This is a fun one. The Open Video Sliding Puzzle takes a running video (from the public videos project) cuts it up, and builds a sliding puzzle on the fly. How does it work? Why Canvas and HTML5 video of course: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: for (var i=0;i<12;i++){ var 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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