PPK has published new event compatibility tables that test the event registration models (traditional, W3C and Microsoft) as well as event bubbling and capturing. There is a lot of data here on the quirks of the various browsers. In some fun news, it was interesting to see that PPK developed the interactive Dutch royal family tree!
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Tor Norbye has posted about the type inference that NetBeans has with JavaScript: Roman Strobl has just published a screencast of the new JavaScript editor in NetBeans 6.1. The demo is around 5 minutes and highlights many of the editing features. I’d like to dwell on the type inference part a bit. Around four minutes into […]
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John Resig put together a nice overview of the ARIA Live Regions specification with an example of how you can track a list of people in a way that a screen reader can understand when someone is added or deleted. Imagine a todo list application. PLAIN TEXT HTML: <ol aria-live=”polite” aria-relevant=”additions removals” aria-describedby=”users-desc” id=”users”> <li>John</li> <li>Mary</li> <li>Ted</li> […]
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March has flown by for me, and we had some great announcements, and some busy threads of discussion to show for it. The Webkit folk have had the great insight to realize that although SVG and canvas are still thought of as more advanced technology and are not mainstream in anyway, the problems that they […]
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Twistori is a fun little site created by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs. As you would expect, design is a key part of the application, and the Prototype / Script.aculo.us combo pull off the work. The site pulls in live data on various topics (love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish) via the real-time twitter search tool […]
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Omar AL Zabir, the co-founder & CTO of Pageflakes has written about a continuous streaming Ajax proxy that solves the common problem that all Ajax proxies have, the double delay in downloading content on server first and then delivering to the browser. Omar talks about the continuous proxy that can help solve the problems. The approach […]
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Jason Grigsby of Cloud Four has created a research project that needs our help. He has created a mobile browser concurrency test to “query the number of concurrent connections your phone makes. Your phone’s browser will need to display images for the test to work.We’ve also set up a SMS keyword to make it easier […]
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Harald Kirschner has created a new version of FancyUpload “a file-input replacement which features an unobtrusive, multiple-file selection menu and queued upload with an animated progress bar.” A good example is the Queued Photo Uploader which is coded by: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var swiffy = new FancyUpload2($(’demo-status’), $(’demo-list’), { ‘url’: $(’form-demo’).action, ‘fieldName’: ‘photoupload’, […]
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Aptana have announced their cloud platform initiative, Aptana Cloud.Aptana Cloud plugs right into your IDE to provide instant deployment, smart synchronization, and seamless migration as you scale. Aptana Cloud is ideal for developers who use scripting languages to create Ajax, Facebook, mySpace and all other sorts of Web applications. The key is that this isn’t a […]
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