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Steve?s State of Performance 2008
Steve Souders has a nice performance roundup for 2008 that details some of the important utilities and knowledge that we gained this year.
His post gets even more interesting when he posits about the ....... read more
19 days ago
FireUnit: JavaScript Unit Testing Extension
John Resig and Jan Odvarko have announced something pretty darn cool, FireUnit.
FireUnit provides a simple JavaScript API for doing simple test logging and viewing within a new tab of Firebug.
T ....... read more
19 days ago
DLINK: automatic link annotation
David King has created a small JavaScript library dlink that styles your links to let the user know if the link is internal, external, a subdomain, an anchor on the same page, or an email link.
To ....... read more
20 days ago
RUI is not accessible? Check out Yahoo?s new Currency Converter
I am proud to be able to announce the new currency converter on Yahoo finance. Why? Because it is a perfect example of how a complex rich user interface can be built in an accessible manner.
As th ....... read more
20 days ago
Ajax as Flash: Achmea
Remon de Boer sent us a link to Achmea.nl, a Dutch website that brought back memories of Thomas Fuchs Ajax makeover of Guccis website some time ago.
Ironically, Achmea.nl starts out by displaying a ....... read more
20 days ago
OilCan: Grease up your Android browser
Jeffrey Sharkey has created OilCan a thin wrapper on top of the WebKit shipping on Android that allows you to install userscripts that allow you to access to Android "Intents".
Intents are very nice ....... read more
20 days ago
Census 2: Benchmarking RIAs Rebooted
Alex Russell decided to rewrite and create Census 2 to act as a new benchmark for various RIA techniques. This is based on the the original Census benchmark done by James Ward of Adobe.
There are ....... read more
21 days ago
Tech Luminaries: Interview with Brendan Eich
Dion and I have been wanting to do a podcast series for a long time that is more casual then Audible Ajaxjust chatting with some of the luminaries in tech about their careers and such. We collected ....... read more
21 days ago
JavaScript Raster Bar Effect
This is a fun canvas demo by Stefan Pettersson that brings you back to your Amiga days (if you remember those, or werent an Atari man).
You can check out the JavaScript that makes the world turn.< ....... read more
21 days ago
Interfaces in JavaScript
The UML diagram above is from Matt Prokes as he creates Java-like interfaces for JavaScript.
He has a full example:
An example of an object which requires an implementation of the interface.
PLAI ....... read more
21 days ago
Music Player UI
Yensdesign has a nice little example of a music player UI that uses mouse gestures and key handling to give a clean experience.
Songza did a great job here, and I still use it to find songs for the k ....... read more
20 days ago
Finally something to get a few more users off of IE 6?
We desperately want users to upgrade to the latest and greatest. A prominent and respected Web citizen recently said With Ajax we are developing to 1997 technology, and are restricted by IE 6. What ....... read more
20 days ago
The Cloud Player: Web-based iTunes using jQuery
Eric Wahlforss, the founder of SoundCloud, wrote in to tell us about “The Cloud Player , a iTunes / Songbird clone written entirely in Ajax:
we just released an open-source itunes-clone built ....... read more
22 days ago
PNG support in IE6 that reclaims background repetition and position
Drew Diller has created a helper library in the "yup, you still have to get things working in IE 6" department. DD_belatedPNG adds PNG support to IE6 that works with background-repeat and background-p ....... read more
22 days ago
Extending jQuery selectors with JavaScript
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
// Flag images upon load:
$('img').load(function(){
$(this).data('loaded',true)
})
// Extend expr:
....... read more
22 days ago
App Discover: An add-on to aid discoverability in the browser
Snuck over this post about getting better discoverability into the browser from me personal blog
Greasemonkey and Fluid userscripts. AIR and the new Titanium apps. Browser add-ons. When you go to a we ....... read more
22 days ago
pyQuery: Same API, but with a snake.
jQuery came first, but then we have seen others such as pQuery.
Now we have pyQuery which brings the same great taste API to Python. The author Olivier Lauzanne explains:
yquery allows you to make ....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
Open Web Podcast 6: Sizzling Open FX
re-posted from the Open Web Podcast blog
I have moved to Mozilla along with my long time friend cohort and collaborator, Ben Galbraith. He joins us on this podcast, along with Alex, who joins us as a ....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
Massively parallel crowd sourced JavaScript app server; SETI for JS
Malte Ubl is having a lot of fun here :) He has created a "massively parallel crowd-sourced JavaScript app server cloud" a.k.a. SETI for running JavaScript code.
This is how it works:
When a user m ....... read more
Mon,
08 Dec 2008
Common Feature Tests
Kangax has written about his new Common Feature Tests project:
I have been working on a little personal project of mine for the past couple of months. It?s called CFT and stands for Common Feature ....... read more
Wed,
10 Dec 2008