Joseph Woods of PHPCow sent us a note about SmartMarkUP, a universal markup editor: SmartMarkUP is a lightweight and powerful JavaScript library that allows you to turn any textarea into a fancy ....... read more Thu, 11 Dec 2008
jsTree Nears 1.0; Solicits Feedback
Several months ago, we covered jsTree, a promising new tree Component built on top of jQuery. Its since gained its own website and is nearing a 1.0 release. There have been a few changes since we la ....... read more Thu, 13 Nov 2008
input type=camera to give us a simple way to integrate to Webcams
There are a substantial number of iPhone apps that tie into the builtin native Components such as the camera.
Brad Lassey has been hacking on Fennec (the Mozilla mobile browser) as well as Firefox its ....... read more Thu, 25 Sep 2008
NoGray Visual Time Picker
The NoGray Time Picker is a Component that lets you add a time picker that is visual. The clock shows up, and you move the hands to wherever you need to be. All via a simple:
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Mon, 04 Aug 2008
YPulse: Fades and Pulsations Library
Kent Johnson has released YPulse a simple open source wrapper for the YUI Animation library that makes creating highlight fades and pulsing button glows a bit easier.
You pulse away with something lik ....... read more Fri, 11 Jul 2008
dragtable: drag-and-drop reorderable columns for an HTML table
Dan Vanderkam has announced a new Component dragtable:
Over the past several years, Stuart Langridge?s sorttable Javascript library has found widespread use. It?s easy to see why. Just add class=sort ....... read more Fri, 27 Jun 2008
jsTree: jQuery-based JavaScript tree Component
Ivan Bozhanov walked us through his jQuery-based tree Component recently. The state of trees out there is interesting. YUI! has a nice, stable tree control but Dojo's once feature-rich tree has been r ....... read more Fri, 20 Jun 2008
Timeframe: Prototype date range Component
Stephen Celis got tired of wiring together two date pickers for the common use case of grabbing a date range, so he created timeframe, which is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar." Ba ....... read more Wed, 23 Apr 2008
FancyUpload: Swiff meets Ajax
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 goo ....... read more Mon, 28 Apr 2008
Making application modules communicate with each other using Decoupling
Ive been talking about event driven application design in JavaScript in January last year and inspired Caridy Patiņo to write his Bubbling Library based on these ideas. Caridy now upped the ante a b ....... read more Tue, 22 Apr 2008
Gaia Tranquility - Ajax Components for .Net
Gaiaware, developers of Gaia .Net Ajax suite of Components, have released a new version of their suite called Tranquility. The release focuses heavily on improving the overall quality and performance ....... read more Mon, 25 Feb 2008
MooTools Calendar Component
We just featured SCal, and now we have a MooTools Calendar Component created by Aeron Glemann.
I have tried to make Calendar as semantic as possible?with proper usage of CAPTION, THEAD, TBODY, TH and ....... read more Wed, 28 Nov 2007
Scal: Calendar widget for Prototype
Scal is a a simple Javascript calendar based on Prototype which features: Lightweight Fast and easy to setup Multiple Calendars can be initiated without conflict Valid HTML/XHTML generated code Skinn ....... read more Mon, 26 Nov 2007
Dissecting Dijit: Dojo Widgets
One of the best parts of Dojo 1.0 has been how often the team has been blogging of all things. It has been great! Mike Wilcox has posted about Dijit, the widget platform for Dojo 1.0. His piece cover ....... read more Wed, 14 Nov 2007
Designing the perfect Tree
Glen Lipka has been thinking about Trees. He looked around for patterns for building them, and couldnt find anything. Then he looked at examples such as the Ext Tree Component and ended up writing up ....... read more Thu, 25 Oct 2007
SilverStripe 2.1: New Ajax Modules
Sigurd Magnusson of the SilverStripe opensource CMS application pinged us about the SilverStripe 2.1 release which features: Blog module with drag drop widgets: View screencast, Demo (login: admin/ ....... read more Fri, 19 Oct 2007
Photoshop Color Picker
John Dyer has seen other colour pickers but has come up with his own that mimics Photoshop:
Some pickers try to generate the entire color map in JavaScript by drawing a 256x256 grid made of div. This ....... read more Fri, 05 Oct 2007
DatePicker using Prototype and Scriptaculous
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Fri, 31 Aug 2007
Ext 1.1 Released
Ext JS is the Ajax communitys answer to, Yes, but does it look wicked cool? Several folks pointed us to yesterdays release of Ext 1.1:
The Ext team is proud to announce the immediate availability ....... read more Thu, 02 Aug 2007
InputDraw: Allow Drawing in Forms
Ever wanted to let your users draw in a form field? read more
Wed, 01 Aug 2007