Monday, October 5th, 2009
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, jQuery
The classic animated gif, or the “loading…” text, could be now easily replaced thanks to this new jQuery plug-in. Specially suited for a page loads of images, the final result showed in this demo looks really nice and flashy. Features: Preload a whole web page. Preload a part of the page. Gets all images, <img> Read the rest…
I'm a fan of all the new ways of drawing on the web. I consider myself a Canvas evangelist, an SVG evangelist, and an evangelist for the new CSS Animation work going on. When asked "SVG or Canvas" I've long felt the right answer is: "Yes" :) Canvas is great at pixels, SVG is great Read the rest...
Friday, October 2nd, 2009
It's always nice when a basic shared idea with a simple proof of concept becomes something concrete, usable, and well explained. This is the case with Shea Frederick's post titled Forwarding Mouse Events Through Layers. The aim of the technique is to provide an ExtJS plug-in that can capture dragged and dropped data from external sources, Read the rest...
Category: Chrome
Tamura Jones has published a detailed look at detecting for Chrome Frame (.xhtml huh, wow! :). He nicely aggregates a lot of the info that has been seen on Chrome Frame into one place, and his series covers: Basics of Chrome Frame: what is it? Supporting Chrome Frame: <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="chrome=1"> and the like Detecting Read the rest...
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
There are many options for JavaScript Unit Testing but a "de facto" standard for the jQuery library, related plug-ins, and jQuery UI is QUnit. Nothing new so far? Check this out: According to tweets from John Resig the state of QUnit is: QUnit is now completely standalone (it no longer depends upon jQuery) QUnit now Read the rest...
Via jzornig comes news of a cool set of components written with HTML 5 and the Canvas tag: ChemDoodle Web Components are pure javascript objects derived from ChemDoodle™ to solve common chemistry related tasks on the web. These components are powerful, fully customizable, easy to implement, and are free under the open source GPL license. 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...
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Category: Cappuccino, Examples
Elias Klughammer has implemented the Juggernaut push server in a Cappuccino app. Always nice to have an open source bare bones sample app for a marriage like this. Nothing beats looking at the source.
Monday, September 28th, 2009
Category: Editorial
Dear Ajaxian Community, As editors-in-chief so to speak, I always feel that it is important to fully disclose to the community any affiliation change. We have always tried to by balanced, and show that by featuring all kinds of news (for example, we haven't been shy at posting about great WebKit tech while at Mozilla, Read the rest...
We usually post these on Friday, but who says a little fun on Monday is wrong? Paul Brunt has put together a nifty game using the Canvas tag. It's pretty impressive. He is also using Chrome Frame to have the game work on IE as well. Play it now
Brady Eidson has a great one two punch on the WebKit page cache. First, Brady delves into the basics of the page cache: The Page Cache makes it so when you leave a page we “pause” it and when you come back we press “play.” When a user clicks a link to navigate to a Read the rest...
Friday, September 25th, 2009
I've come across a few nice educational articles on HTML 5 recently I want to share. The first is from Mark Pilgrim, who has been writing a new book called Dive Into HTML 5. He has put up two chapters already, "Detecting HTML5 Features: It's Elementary, My Dear Watson" and "Let's Call It a Draw(ing Read the rest...
Category: Utility
Our Webmonkey friends have featured Opacity, a vector image manipulation tool that has a couple of features that are interesting for Web developers wanting to do HTML5-y things: To use the new source code feature in Opacity, simply design your vector-based graphic or animation sequence and, once you’re happy with it, head to the Inspector Read the rest...
Thursday, September 24th, 2009
Category: Canvas
Content aware image resizing is a nifty technique where you can make an image smaller by literally understanding the content better and remapping it. Stéphane Roucheray has put together a fancy demo (Firefox 3.5 only) that uses JavaScript and the Canvas tag plus createImageData to do all of this in the browser versus C++: For Read the rest...
I have rarely seen so much interest for an Internet Explorer dedicated plug-in! While developers have been strafed twitter with re-tweets, technical questions and some guessed answer about Chrome Frame, Robert Nyman has already expressed his thoughts about Wave choice and latest Alex Russell idea. Here few highlights: No one will care Home users who Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript
Inspired by its conceptual simplicity, Andrea Giammarchi ( cough, the newest Ajaxian, cough ) has revisited an old ActionScript 1.0 Image effect making it lightweight, 1.2Kb minified and gzipped, and portable, thanks to its cross-browser nature and zero libraries dependencies. Last but not least, it's 100% JavaScript, and without canvas. The theory is simple: expanding 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...
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