Library
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
An interview with 280 North on Objective-J and Cappuccino
As I say in this podcast interview, I got an early look at 280 Slides the application that launched yesterday to much acclaim. People are calling it Keynote on the Web , which the team finds very h ....... read more
Fri,
06 Jun 2008
Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google?s infrastructure
I just got to announce the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools faster and easie ....... read more
Tue,
27 May 2008
Declarative Syntax for Widgets
Jeff Watkins is updating his MVC Library, Coherent, and is wondering if he should add declarative syntax for child widgets. Currently, you have to write a lot of init() setup code, but instead he woul ....... read more
Mon,
26 May 2008
UFrame: div meets iframe
Omar AL Zabir has posted about a new Library called UFrame:
UFrame combines the goodness of UpdatePanel and iframe in a cross browser and cross platform solution. It allows a div to behave like an IF ....... read more
Mon,
26 May 2008
dojox.lang.aspect: More than just interception
Eugene Lazutkin has written a very thorough post on dojox.lang.aspect a module that takes AOP seriously in JavaScript. As someone who has been to a couple AOSDs (the AOP software conference) and was e ....... read more
Mon,
19 May 2008
moo.rd 1.3 released
The moo.rd team has released version 1.3.1 of the moo.rd extension and seems to be almost a rewrite, nowbased on MooTools 1.2 so it uses the new MooTools syntax and logic. The team told us about the r ....... read more
Tue,
20 May 2008
Stack: A native Array wrapper that works
Andrea Giammarchi has created a native array wrapper that works across browsers. He is excited:
I do not know how many times, during this years, JavaScript Ninjas have tried to subclass the native Ar ....... read more
Wed,
21 May 2008
Polling for loaded content instead of simple setTimeout
Have you ever found yourself doing little setTimeout calls as you wait for content to be loaded asynchronously? It seems to happen pretty frequently, and Paul Irish has created a simple utility to hel ....... read more
Wed,
14 May 2008
Spring WebFlow 2.0; JavaScript Module Released
Spring Web Flow 2.0 has been released which includes a new Spring JavaScript module. Here is an example of an onclick wrapper calling an Ajax event: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Fri,
16 May 2008
Google offers Search, Feed, and Translation APIs to Non Ajax Usage
The Google Ajax API team has been offering great services that you can use from JavaScript in the browser. I have talked about some of them on Ajaxian before (Feed API, Feed Discovery API, and the rec ....... read more
Tue,
22 Apr 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
Coherent: Cocoa Databinding for Ajax
Jeff Watkins is a fan of the Cocoa data binding model, and wanted to bring it to the Web. This lead him to create a projects three years ago, which comes out of the dark now: Coherent. There are some ....... read more
Mon,
28 Apr 2008
Emulating get, set, catchall for all browsers
Adrien Friggeri likes the true get, set, and catchalls that almost all but IE provide, so he took a peak at the examples and got to work emulating the layer, which ended up with: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT ....... read more
Fri,
02 May 2008
Immediate Translation and Mibbit
I just posted on a a translate bookmarklet that uses the Google AJAX Language API:
I really liked getting the Ajax Language API out into developers hands as god knows we shouldn't have to worry abou ....... read more
Fri,
25 Apr 2008
Using canvas to test your site with colorblind folk
The picture above is showing you how someone with the color blindness trait Tritanopia would see the image. Michael Deal first created the Color Matrix Library, which supports a large portion of the ....... read more
Thu,
24 Apr 2008