Articles
Undo, redo, and much more with Cappuccino
Francisco Tolmasky of 280 North has written a very nice piece on adding Undo and Redo to your Web application with Cappuccino.
He creates a very cool sample application, FloorPlan, that shows off muc ....... read more
Fri,
14 Nov 2008
In Praise of Evolvable Systems
I met with a colleague recently who wants to take his project and create a standard on the web that actually gets adopted. We talked for a long time, and when we finished up I pointed him at a paper t ....... read more
Thu,
28 Aug 2008
A tutorial on Prototype, Google Maps API and the HeatMapAPI
Jeffrey Barke has written up a tutorial detailing how to create a density map with Prototype, the Google Maps API and the HeatMapAPI.
The heat map API looks cool indeed, and that piece of code looks ....... read more
Thu,
17 Jul 2008
Composing DSLs in JavaScript
PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
TheRulesAre(function() { with(this) {
a(Player).mayNot('buyProperty').unless(function(player, property) & ....... read more
Fri,
28 Mar 2008
Canvas Polar Clock
"agrath" has developed a very nice Canvas example using Prototype that makes use of a common Prototype-isms: Object.extend, Class.create, bind, enumerables, $w, $. The Polar Clock is a different visu ....... read more
Tue,
26 Feb 2008
Shooting browsers: Threat or Menace?
Two Articles were shot onto A List Apart this morning. We have Jeffrey Zeldman on the threat or menace of version targeting. Then we have Jeremy Keith on browser shooting. Both are opinions on the ver ....... read more
Tue,
19 Feb 2008
Feature Detection and Cross-Browser Widgets
Peter Michaux has done some very thorough work on feature detection in the browser and cross browser widgets. In his feature detection article he walks through a myriad of approaches with pros and con ....... read more
Thu,
21 Feb 2008
Product pages: so much suck, so easy to fix
Now and then we weave the Ajaxian car into the designer fast lane from the developer one as we see something interesting. This time around we have Amy Hoy talking about product pages as an example of ....... read more
Mon,
26 Nov 2007
URI vs. URL: What?s the difference?
REST groupies can talk your ear off about resources and the difference between URI and URL. Many developers still dont really know the difference though, and Ryan McDonough has put up this simple sum ....... read more
Fri,
23 Nov 2007
Wikipedia Offline with GearsMonkey
Working on the Gears team we also run across applications that we would love to take offline. A lot of these applications arent Googles so we thought it would be nice to be able to take third party ....... read more
Wed,
21 Nov 2007
How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API
Rakesh Pai has written up a piece on How To Build A Read/Write JavaScript API based on his research of the GData JavaScript client library (video), CrossSafe, and SubSpace. He discusses the high level ....... read more
Tue,
20 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
Pseudo-custom events in Prototype 1.6
Andrew Dupont has written a tutorial on how to normalize proprietary browser events using Prototype's new custom events feature. The piece is interesting as it talks about how the Prototype core team ....... read more
Fri,
09 Nov 2007
URI Comparison Functions
It is nice to see a post on IEBlog that isnt about ES4 ;) Dave Risney provides just that as he details the perils of comparing URIs, a common cause for security exploits and errors in general. Inves ....... read more
Mon,
05 Nov 2007
Transitioning from Java Classes to JavaScript Prototypes
To class or not to class, that has been a question than many developers have faced as they came from class based OO worlds into the Prototype Oriented world of JavaScript. Much pain has endured for th ....... read more
Wed,
31 Oct 2007
Ajax Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux
Max Kiesler has been doing some nice roundup posts recently. He just published Ajax Javascript Galleries, Slideshows and Effects Redux, a piece that goes through a large group of libraries and apps th ....... read more
Mon,
22 Oct 2007
Dealing with the Flexibility of JavaScript
Neil Roberts has written a piece on Dealing with the Flexibility of JavaScript which delves into functions that are overloaded based on signature. For example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
conne ....... read more
Wed,
17 Oct 2007
Inheritance is evil, and must be destroyed: part 1
When we wrote about Bernard Sumptions Animator.js there was a lot of interest in Bernies position that OO inheritance sucks. Bernie decided to fuel the fire and expanded his thoughts, explaining ho ....... read more
Thu,
11 Oct 2007
Load Balancing in your Ajax code
Lei Zhu developed a Flash site called Voxlite that allows you to send video messages to people. The application uses both Amazon S3 and EC2, and Lei decided to do load balancing between instances on ....... read more
Fri,
05 Oct 2007
A simple guide to using Firebug
Phil Rees has written up a nice introduction to Firebug, showing us how you can use Firebug to: Inspect custom stylesheets included by Google Mashup Editor Modify in-memory stylesheets to see the cha ....... read more
Thu,
04 Oct 2007