May
31
Markus Inger wanted to hone his Mootools skills, so he created a BeJewelled-like game, BeSlimed. Give it a Friday whirl!
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May
31
Aza Raskin wrote about SocialHistory.js, a small library he wrote that detects which social networks that you use, and using that data to show the user only those sites as areas to work with. E.g. if you use Digg, show “digg this” etc. He uses the technique that Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen came up with, […]
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May
30
One of the details of Yahoo! BrowserPlus that people picked up on was the fact that it only runs against Yahoo! properties. However, some folks have hacked that restriction so they can play with it locally, and assume that Yahoo! wouldn’t like this. Skylar Woodward of Yahoo! has posted that this isn’t the case at all:BrowserPlus was […]
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May
30
Jon Ferraiolo of IBM and the OpenAjax Alliance wanted to share with the community news on a couple of initiatives: The OpenAjax Alliance is requesting industry feedback on two companion initiatives, OpenAjax Conformance and the OpenAjax Registry, which have been under development for the past year. The term OpenAjax Conformance is shorthand for the set of conformance […]
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May
30
Steven Levithan has been flagrant by creating a simple way to remove nested patterns with a while loop and a replace: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var str = “abc<1<2<>3>4>def”; while (str != (str = str.replace(/<[^<>]*>/g, “”))); // str -> "abcdef" Notice that the regex in this one-liner doesn’t try to deal with nested patterns at all. The while loop’s condition replaces instances […]
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May
30
GWT 1.5 has a new release candidate. The 1.5 release is a big one, especially as it includes Java 5 language support!Since the previous release of GWT, we’ve seen a lot of really great applications that demonstrate what is possible when you are able to focus on the user and stop worrying so much about […]
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May
30
Reposted from my personal techno.blog I was sitting on the tube a few months ago in London when I looked up to see Matt Mullenweg, Om Malik, and another nice chap whose name escapes me. A little random to bump into them in the middle of London, but we were all in town for the “Future […]
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May
29
YUI 2.5.2 Released, Big Focus on Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 Support
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With the releases of FireFox 3 and Opera 9.5 right around the corner, it’s great to see the Yahoo UI team being extremely proactive in ensuring strong compatibility with the browsers in their newest release, YUI 2.5.2. Announced yesterday, YUI v2.5.2 fixes a number of bugs but focuses heavily on support for the […]
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May
29
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for […]
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May
29
Dov Katz pointed us to Josh Bochner’s labor of love, http://www.jigadig.com/. It’s an Ajax-heavy jQuery-powered auction site aggregator. What really got our attention is the search results page, which among other things lets you view full item descriptions in-line without having to jump to a different page, infinitely scroll, and easily “pin” interesting items for […]
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