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Guid0: JavaScript GUIDs
Our own Michael Mahemoff is at it again, creating a simple little GUID generator called Guid0:
Guid0 is a GUID Library for Javascript. Okay, it doesn't yet do official, bona fide, 128-bit, GUIDs ye ....... read more
8 days ago
SproutCore: From MobileMe to 1.0
SproutCore drove onto the scene when MobileMe launched using it.
Since that blast, the team has been diligently working on getting a 1.0 release, and Charles Jolley has
posted on the future of SproutC ....... read more
17 days ago
How to structure your JavaScript code
Peter Michaux has shared how he structures his code these days, as he has settled on a pattern:
The code example below is a simple little logger widget. It appends messages to a list and has a clea ....... read more
Tue,
28 Oct 2008
Peppy: New CSS 3 selector engine
James Donaghue has released Peppy, the first release of his CSS 3 compliant selector engine that runs independent of one particular Library (and can thus be used with any of them).
He has some bold cl ....... read more
Tue,
21 Oct 2008
js.io: client Library for networking
Michael Carter et al have been working on js.io, a client Library that gives you networking, including Comet like support, via JavaScript.
The low level work can sit upon Comet APIs, and in the futur ....... read more
Mon,
06 Oct 2008
Thinking about the difference between frameworks
I got to meet Aaron Newton at The Ajax Experience, and he is a thinker. He was really taking in the various talks, and interactions, and you could tell that he was trying to work out various angles on ....... read more
Fri,
03 Oct 2008
The cross browser addEvent resurfaces
Stephen Stchur has written great posts in the past about cross browser events, and has revisited the topic with The Ultimate addEvent function article.
You get to use the function a la:
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Fri,
26 Sep 2008
Pi.js: Simple JavaScript Library
Azer Koculu has released his Pi.js framework, which is a lightweight system that includes a minimal set of modules, and the ability to use and provide plugins.
By default you get:
pi.env: browser ....... read more
Thu,
25 Sep 2008
Patroon: Another JavaScript Templating Solution
Matthias Georgi has posted the release of Patroon, his new templating system that uses JavaScript. It joins other solutions such as using Django via JavaScript (e.g. Dojo let's you do that), TrimPath, ....... read more
Mon,
15 Sep 2008
GWT 1.5 final release is shipped and out the door
I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete:
GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of ....... read more
Fri,
29 Aug 2008
qooxdoo 0.8: new GUI toolkit and tool chain
qooxdoo 0.8 has been released and it appears to have a lot of big changes. Andreas Ecker told us a little about it:
While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version number
over the pre ....... read more
Fri,
29 Aug 2008
Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle
Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of i ....... read more
Wed,
20 Aug 2008
Reading ID3 tags with JavaScript
Jacob Seidelin is up to more tricks, this time playing with the binary side of life and writing a Library that can reading ID3 tags from MP3 files and such.
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// URL o ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails: API to get site thumbnails
Have you ever wanted to be able to easily grab a thumbnail image that represents a website?
Eric Ferraiuolo has created Ajax-Alexa-Thumbnails on Google Code, a Library that builds on YUI to do just th ....... read more
Tue,
29 Jul 2008
ProtoChart: Using Canvas to give you good looking charts
ProtoChart is a new opensource Library using Prototype and Canvas to create good looking charts.
Features
Line, bar, pie, curve, mix, and area charts available
Multiple data series on same graph
L ....... read more
Tue,
29 Jul 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
Passpack releases Host-Proof Hosting Library
Passpack notified me they have released a Library to support Host-Proof Hosting (HPH) development. The Library allows anyone to set up HPH on their own infrastructure. Its mostly a browser-side libr ....... read more
Wed,
09 Jul 2008
ShiftZoom: Zoomify your oversize images
ShiftZoom 1.0 is the latest tool from Christian Effenberger that allows you to add zoom and pan functionality to oversized images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code c ....... read more
Mon,
30 Jun 2008
flXHR: Flash based XHR from flensed
Kyle Simpson has announced a new family of opensource projects called flensed and the first project being flXHR which utilizes javascript+flash to create a complete, literal drop-in replacement (by b ....... read more
Wed,
25 Jun 2008
Nexaweb announces dojo.E markup and runtime
Nexaweb has released a new product that build on Dojo, dojo.E:
dojo.E provides developers with the ability to use an XML based markup language to add in their Ajax behaviors. Markup whether ? XML, HT ....... read more
Wed,
04 Jun 2008