Everyone’s throwing up JavaScript functionality left and right, most of the time without giving any thought to accessibility. Not so for Brian Reindel who has created an accessible news slider component which meets the requirements of the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. Brian really gave the development of this jQuery plugin some good thought […]
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Until we get <input type=”date” /> into the browsers, we will need to create data pickers. DatePicker is a simple one that users Prototype and Script.aculo.us, and does the basics well (although the fade can be a touch annoying to me). It is very simple to use too: PLAIN TEXT HTML: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”/prototype.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”/scriptaculous.js”></script><script type=”text/javascript” src=”/datepicker.js”></script><style type=”text/css”>@import("/css/datepicker.css");</style><form> <input […]
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Emre Kıcıman and Benjamin Livshits of Microsoft research have created a new project called Ajax View:The goal of the Ajax View project is to improve developer’s visibility into and control over their web applications’ behaviors on end-user’s desktops. The Ajax View approach is to insert a server-side proxy (or web server plugin) in-between the web server […]
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Here’s the first entry in what we hope will become a regular feature on Ajaxian. The Ajaxian Featured Tutorial will feature a tutorial that we’ve found interesting and we think the community will enjoy. Now granted, we realize that not everyone will find it interesting and we’re okay with that. We want to spread the […]
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Andreas Ecker, project lead of qooxdoo, sat down to have a chat about the state of the project, how it works, what it does, how it compares to other frameworks like GWT, and how it integrates with third party development environments from Borland and the Eclipse Foundation.
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Joseph Smarr gave a talk at Yahoo! with a pretty provocative title: High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong. He discusses some of his findings in performance such as, the Plaxo team found that in some cases they could achieve substantial gains by attaching event handlers inline using DOM level 0 syntax (e.g. <div […]
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The Gears team has rev’d a new version aimed at developers. This release isn’t going to propagate to end-user machines yet, as we want to time to hear from the community on the new features and APIs. Speaking of which… What’s new? Cross Origin API Until now, there was no way to talk past the strict same-origin security […]
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When I first saw an email from Dirk Jesse about YAML, I was instantly in Ruby mode. Then as I read I realised that he was talking about a totally different YAML, his own CSS framework “Yet Another Multicolumn Layout” (compareble to YUI Grids or blueprint) that is designedfor creating flexible float-based multicolumn css-layouts. YAML […]
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The JavaScript camp can get a bit obsessed with squeezing, and Arthur Blake’s CompressorRater tells you how far you can go: There are many tools available that can help you compress your JavaScript code but it can be time consuming and difficult to analyze which tool work the best for a given situation. The goal […]
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