John Allsopp has developed XRAY, a bookmarklet that launches a tool to visualize the web page that you are on (a little like features in Firebug and Firefox). The look and feel is great, and the margin popups look like the new Safari/Webkit search functionality (mmm orange).What is XRAY XRAY is the first in hopefully a […]
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Joe Hewitt popped down the road to talk about iUI, his look-native-on-the-iPhone framework, at Yahoo! HQ. This is a short, 15 minute presentation, that shows Joe providing an overview of how iUI works and how you can use it to jumpstart any iPhone-specific interfaces you’re considering for your web apps. He also provides an outstanding overview […]
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On July 1st and July 7th, we posted about Timeline from the Simile project. We’re pleased to post about another related project: Timeplot, which isa canvas-based ajaxy plotting companion toour Timeline widget (that also supports the same timeline data formats). Follow the link; the screen shot doesn’t do it justice. While you’re there, don’t miss the comprehensive […]
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Scott Schiller has updated his dHTML Arkanoid game to work on the iPhone. Although the mouse events meant that the game wouldn’t work as-is, Scott added an extra div if the browser is an iPhone, and it handles click events. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: if (isIphone) { this.iphoneTarget = document.createElement(’div’); this.iphoneTarget.href = ‘#’; this.iphoneTarget.id = ‘iphoneTarget’; […]
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Jon Brisbin has created an XML-RPC JavaScript client called @tomic:The @tomic XML-RPC client requires ExtJS 1.1, but has no other external requirements. It’s designed to be easy-to-use, flexible, and robust enough for anything you might throw at it. Since this is an initial release, I’m putting it out as a beta (under the GPL). PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: Ext.onReady( […]
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jMaki Actions are a declarative way of associating widget behavior. The goal here is a holy grails of grabbing a Dojo widgets and a Prototype based one, and having them talk together. Greg shows an example: Consider a case where you have a Dojo Fisheye and you simply want it to select a tab or URL […]
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Julien Lecomte of Yahoo! has written a YUI-based image cropper widget that allows you to easily select which region of an image you’d like to crop. This widget works on all A-grade browsers in both standards mode and quirks mode. Once you setup the CSS and JavaScript you simply: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: new YAHOO.widget.ImageCropper( “myImageId” ); Oh, and you […]
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Just as the panel discussed getComputedStyle and how each browser returns something different, Erik Arvidsson blogged about Computed vs Cascaded Style. Erik discusses the difference between computed, cascaded, and override styles. He shows us why this common function is bad: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function getStyle(el, prop) { if (document.defaultView && document.defaultView.getComputedStyle) { return document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(el, null)[prop]; } else if […]
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Cellsea has a free new video editor and convertor using MochiKit and SWFObject. It is a very primitive and simple tools that lets you do a couple of tweaks to your video, but it is a nice example of talking between the Flash and Ajax worlds.
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Another Ajax Experience is over. We had a blast and it was a tons of fun to see so many of our friends in the community and to have so much top-notch content. Many thanks to all those who came out, especially the speakers, many of whom came to present at great personal sacrifice. And, […]
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