Adam van den Hoven wrote a Canvas Loading Indicator after he realised that animated gifs and the iPhone didn’t mesh. First he wrote the basic spinner: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: function getLoading(context, bars, center, innerRadius, size, color) {var animating = true, currentOffset = 0; function makeRGBA(){ return “rgba(” + [].slice.call(arguments, 0).join(”,”) + “)”;}function drawBlock(ctx, barNo){ ctx.fillStyle = makeRGBA(color.red, […]
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Stuart Collville and Ed Eliot just launched a new CSS Sprite Generator tool, which is the first of many in a series of web-site performance tools.For the uninitiated, a CSS Sprite is a single image file which contains several graphics. Using CSS background positions it’s possible to display any one of the graphics. By using […]
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Douglas Crockford popped up the road from Sunnyvale to chat with Googlers on the topic of Gears and the Mashup Problem:Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. … all » Unfortunately, the browser’s security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential […]
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As soon as the iPhone was released, Bob Vawter of the GWT team had some fun playing around with the experience of creating iPhone applications within GWT. To do this, he wrote a demo application that uses the Ajax Feed API to read feeds. He open sourced the code, and wrote up a detailed article […]
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The folks at 456 bereastreet are reporting about the newest release of Robert Nyman’s DOM Assistant. In case you aren’t aware of DOM Assistant: DOMAssistant is plainly an extremely efficient way to work tightly on conjunction with the DOM without worrying about web browser caveats and inconsistencies. No matter what you do, you will always get […]
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We got quite a few emails to ajaxians@ajaxian.com letting us know that Apple is now using the Dojo Toolkit for their store after a quick refresh, which people seem to find interesting as it seems to be a bit of a switch from Prototype (although there is some Prototype code copied over too). It is also […]
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Adobe’s AIR runtime gets a lot of press for bringing web apps to the desktop but Mark Finkle’s WebRunner is looking to be an alternative force in this space. WebRunner is a simple XULRunner based browser that hosts web applications without the normal web browser user interface. WebRunner 0.7 was just released with improved configuration […]
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Brian Reindel takes us through the steps of traversing an XML file using the jQuery JavaScript framework: The jQuery library has changed quite a bit since then, and I have decided to revisit jQuery and XML with an intermediate tutorial. Much of this tutorial is written as a response to questions I have received from other […]
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Charlie Hubbard has updated his well received Flexjson library and has released version 1.5. There are two major feature updates: Filters You can now easily include and exclude items from the JSON: PLAIN TEXT JAVA: new JSONSerializer().exclude(”*.class”).serialize( obj );new JSONSerializer().exclude(”foo.*.bar.*”).prettyPrint( obj );new JSONSerializer().exclude(”*.class”).include(”my.hobbies”).serialize( obj );new JSONSerializer().exclude(”foo.phoneNumbers”).include(”*”).prettyPrint( obj ); Note that a new prettyPrint() is there to output your JSON in an eye-pleasing […]
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I found it kind of ironic that Ted Farrell, Oracle’s chief architect and vice president of tools and middleware, warned many AJAXWorld conference attendees to be wary of Ajax. So let me get this straight. You go to an Ajax-centric conference to tell the developers who are there to learn about Ajax-related technologies to be […]
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