Monday, October 26th, 2009
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
A couple of quick updates for the Protoscripty crowd: Choose your own CSS selector adventure Fancy changing your selector engine at will? Simply rake dist SELECTOR_ENGINE=nwmatcher to switch to NWMatcher and beyond. What is the perf difference? Thanks to @jdalton you can give some tests a try! Script.aculo.us 1.8.3 is released It aint as sexy Read the rest…
Friday, October 23rd, 2009
Atlassian has created a new JIRA Interactive Tour that walks you through the application, live. We have seen a couple of these before, and this one is really cool. It is one thing watching a screencast of an application that you want to learn, but having an assistant that helps you inside the live app Read the rest…
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Category: Performance
Frederico Caldeira Knabben of CKEditor fame has replied to some of the comments to the CKEditor 3 article with a post about the load time performance of CKEditor 3. He starts out by showing the perf that he gets from Poland: As you can see, the entire sample weight is 105KB, loaded and rendered in Read the rest…
Category: Browsers
The BrowserPlus team of Yahoo released a client-side compression API. As explained in the following screencast, the JavaScript API allows you to pack and compress files on the client with LZMA or tar. Client Side Compression from Lloyd Hilaiel on Vimeo. You can read more about the implementation or try out the live demo (requires Read the rest...
Eliot Graff of Microsoft wrote to public-html@w3.org: In his mail describing why he created a separate Canvas 2D API specification, Doug Schepers wrote [1]: > There is a chance that currently Canvas could be a blocker on progress > for the HTML5 spec, and at this point, Canvas is so widely implemented > that I Read the rest...
Wednesday, October 21st, 2009
Category: IE, JavaScript
, Security
Stoyan Stefanov has done some testing on so called implied globals in browsers. One of the interesting finds was that the meta description is accessible in JavaScript using object property notation on IE and other browsers. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <meta name="description" content="test me" /> PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: alert(description.content); // "test me" Furthermore, you can Read the rest...
Category: Utility
Our very own Ben Galbraith took a dip down under to talk about the state of developer tools. The session description is: For many years, developing for the web left quite a bit to be desired when it came to the tools at developers disposal, particularly in comparison with the sorts of development environments available Read the rest...
Category: Apple, Showcase
, Video
Apple has a fair amount of video on their site, and now you will find it displayed via <video> As always, it looks very nice indeed. The video controls look very much like the new Quicktime X: All via the code: Of course, for all the deets on video, check out brother Mark.
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Microsoft
, YUI
I have discovered only yesterday the Announcing Microsoft Ajax Library (Preview 6) and the Microsoft Ajax Minifier post and using Visual Studio on daily basis I could not miss an instant minifier test. First of all, my apologizes for the wrong tweet and the comment left in the related post. I have spotted a false Read the rest...
Aaron Newton of MooTools fame is now at Cloudera, the awesome Hadoop startup, and has posted about the rich Cloudera Desktop project he has been working on. In the post he discusses the implementation and how it uses new features in the new MooTools 1.2.4 release such as: MooTools Depender MooTools ships with a dependency Read the rest...
Monday, October 19th, 2009
Category: Debugging, Performance
Steve Souders has posted about the HTTP Archive Specification and how it is now supported by both Firebug and HttpWatch (and hopefully more soon!). Steve says it best, and it started as his baby, so I will let him announce it: What’s needed is an industry standard for archiving HTTP information. The first step in Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
Hamish Friedlander of SilverStripe has developed jQuery Concrete as a way to enable developers to easily add functions to groups of DOM elements based on the structure and contents of those DOM elements. Hamish told us: I'd like to announce the 0.9 (API stable) release of the Concrete and Selector libraries for jQuery. Concrete provides Read the rest...
Friday, October 16th, 2009
Category: jQuery
We have featured the creative work of Scott Robbin many times before. This time he comes at us with a cool new jQuery Approach plugin. It works very similar in nature to animate, except it's based on distance instead of time. As the user's cursor approaches an element, more of an animated style's value is Read the rest...
Thursday, October 15th, 2009
Category: Canvas, Presentation
Dmitry Baranovskiy, of Raphaël fame (can't forget the umlauts), has posted an excellent presentation on the Canvas tag from Web Directions South ’09:
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...
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
Category: Tutorial, View Source
View Source is a new series where we crack open cool web sites and applications and detail how they were made, step by step. Today we will take a look at the Webkit Sticky Notes demo that was created when Webkit first landed it's HTML 5 SQL storage support: In this demo you can create 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...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
Who are the ajaxians? Find out.
Please contact us at . We would love to hear about any news that we could put up here.
We have individual blogs too:
