Ever wanted to create your own isometric pixel picture, but didn’t know what the word isometric meant? Well, now you can fulfil your wildest dreams with Cubescape! That is the headline for Cubescape, a site that released a new jQuery based front end that lets you drop the cubes! Perfect for a Friday, go ahead and get […]
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Just when you thought that datepickers had been played out, along comes Filament Group and puts a whole new spin on it. Working from Mark Grabanski’s jQuery UI DatePicker control, the team substantially enhanced the UI with a host of new features including: shortcut links to preset date ranges, for example, “Past 30 days” or “Current […]
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Steve Souders has another insightful post where he discusses splitting the initial payload for the JavaScript in your page / application. Steve first outlines how JavaScript can affect how the browser renders a page:The growing adoption of Ajax and DHTML means today’s web pages have more JavaScript than ever before. The average top ten U.S. web […]
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Doctype is an exciting beast, and for many reasons. Having a place to collect this data is key, and as I said yesterday, I can’t wait to see it grow as an open resource. The other cool part of Doctype is that there are tests to backup claims. This seems like a “no brainer” as some […]
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Eric Miraglia has posted a great tutorial on how to build your first YUI application. He runs you through the steps of creating a simple application that leverages YUI’s AutoComplete Control to create a site-search form powered by the Yahoo!’s Search web service. The tutorial is a great walkthrough of both how to build the […]
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Spring Web Flow 2.0 has been released which includes a new Spring JavaScript module. Here is an example of an onclick wrapper calling an Ajax event: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <a id=”prevResultsLink” href=”search?searchString=${searchCriteria.searchString}&page=${searchCriteria.page - 1}”>Previous Results</a><script type=”text/javascript”> Spring.addDecoration(new Spring.AjaxEventDecoration({ elementId: "prevResultsLink", event: "onclick", params: { fragments: "body" } }));</script> I […]
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Peter Michaux has created a make, or rake-like utility for JavaScript called xmake. You create a Xmakefile.js such as PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: / defines printlnrequire(’helpers’); xmake.task(’low’, function() { println(’low’);}); xmake.task(’mid1′, [’low’], function() { println(’mid1′);}); xmake.task(’mid2′, [’low’], function() { println(’mid2′);}); xmake.task(’high’, [’mid1′, ‘mid2′], function() { println(’high’);}); And you run it via:xmake [-f filename] taskname This works with xjs, the server side JavaScript framework Peter is building. […]
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Chris Schneider has created a javascript implementation of CSS Effects using the MooTools JavaScript library. It basically parses the css and mimics the new Webkit css animations. With the introduction of CSS we could seperate the presentation layer and the content layer, but we were not able to add animations via CSS. DHTML fixed […]
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Have you ever found yourself doing little setTimeout calls as you wait for content to be loaded asynchronously? It seems to happen pretty frequently, and Paul Irish has created a simple utility to help run code when the library you need is loaded. With his executeWhenLoaded(function, objects, that, must, be, present) you can do something like […]
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