Library
Moo.rd: Extensions to MooTools
Moo.rd is an extension Library to MooTools that brings you more effects, and helpers for tables, lists, and lightboxes. You can see examples of the new extensions including: Custom Alert Custom Conf ....... read more
Thu,
14 Feb 2008
Sun.com Behaviour Registration Library
Greg Reimer has followed up and posted on the new event delegation Library that he is using on Sun.com. The Library provides one object, reg which lets you hook behaviour via: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:read more
Wed,
13 Feb 2008
Thomas Fuchs uses Script.aculo.us 2.0 on his own site
Thomas Fuchs is back in the consulting game and his new site gives us another glimpse of Script.aculo.us 2.0 abilities. The photo zooming? PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
Effect.PhotoZoom = Class.c ....... read more
Fri,
30 Nov 2007
New CSS JavaScript Library
Marat Denenberg has continued the trend of CSS frameworks by taking Mootools and creating CSS.js. The Library sits on top of CSS itself and gives you: Programmatic CSS Browser Compatibility Custom CS ....... read more
Thu,
29 Nov 2007
Chronoscope: GWT based charting Library
Ray Cromwell and the Timepedia team have released Chronoscope, a charting and visualization platform for Google Web Toolkit, as open source. Chronoscope provides a rich Java API for you to play with: ....... read more
Thu,
22 Nov 2007
SWFAddress 2.0: Deep linking for Flash and Ajax
SWFAddress 2.0 has been released: SWFAddress is a small, but powerful Library that provides deep linking for Flash and Ajax. Its a developer tool, allowing creation of unique virtual URLs that can p ....... read more
Wed,
21 Nov 2007
CacheFile.net: Central JavaScript Library URLs
Jon Davis has created CacheFile, a place to store versions of common libraries such as Dojo, jQuery, Ext, Prototype and more. Dojo has a nice CDN already thanks to AOL, and YUI thanks to Yahoo! The ot ....... read more
Tue,
20 Nov 2007
Making the OpenSocial API feel more at home
Chris Chabot has been doing a lot of experimentation with the new OpenSocial APIs. He has written up his experience and created two prototype wrappers. The first short article has some general informa ....... read more
Mon,
12 Nov 2007
Isomorphic SmartClient: Now Open Source
Isomorphic has made a leap of faith to a new opensource business model today. They have freed up their SmartClient Ajax platform by releasing it under the LGPL license. The piece that has been opensou ....... read more
Thu,
08 Nov 2007
Gmail adds Greasemonkey Helper API
We discussed the Gmail facelift (or is it a backlift?) last week. Subtle features have been noticed, and one is particularly cool for expert users. There have always been many Greasemonkey scripts to ....... read more
Thu,
08 Nov 2007
Prototip 1.1: Adding more control to your tooltips
Nick Stakenburg has rewritten his Prototip to use Prototype 1.6:
You can now open, close and toggle tooltips using any mouse event. Keeping your tooltips open adds a new dimension to the Library, all ....... read more
Tue,
30 Oct 2007
GChart: GWT charts without JSNI, plugins, or server round-trips
John C. Gunther is building a technical computing application that generates all of the data that it charts via client-side computations. He didn't want to create the charts on the server side, and de ....... read more
Mon,
29 Oct 2007
Prototype and jQuery: A code comparison
Remy Sharp has gone through the jQuery and Prototype frameworks, which are probably the two closest to each other, and has done a side by side comparison of the frameworks by showing you how similar t ....... read more
Fri,
26 Oct 2007
Preventing spam with drag and drop
I just saw a fun little solution to spam prevention that will truly annoy your users. The drop comment solution uses jQuery and its drag and drop support to require that you move your comment over to ....... read more
Wed,
24 Oct 2007
FitFlash: Make that rectangle move
You have seen the pain when you resize a browser and the Flash rectangle doesn't move. FitFlash is a smart script that resizes your flash automatically if your browser window size is smaller or greate ....... read more
Tue,
23 Oct 2007
JSLoader: On Demand JavaScript Libraries
Dov B. Katz has released JSLoader, his open source on-demand JavaScript Library. He explained to us:
It provides a methodology for organizing JS libraries, and programmatically loading them by simply ....... read more
Mon,
22 Oct 2007
jQuery Logging
Dominic Mitchell has created a mini jQuery logging plugin that ties Firebug to the call chain. This means that if you are debugging something you can quickly add a .log("....") in the chain: PLAIN TEX ....... read more
Fri,
19 Oct 2007
JavaScript Mouse Move Logger
Marcel Oelke has resurrected some code that he wrote to record mouse movement using JavaScript and Ajax.
The ?movelogger? records the mouse movement a users does on a web site. Just before the user l ....... read more
Fri,
19 Oct 2007
Humanized Messages Library
Michael Heilemann has created a jQuery plugin, Humanized Messages, that implements Aza Raskins transparent messages pattern:
Transparent messages are the brainchild of Jef Raskin. It?s simply a large ....... read more
Wed,
17 Oct 2007
Re-inventing XMLHttpRequest: Cross-browser implementation with sniffing capabilities
Sergey Ilinsky has written up an article on an XMLHttpRequest implementation wrapper that provides an equal XHR playground across the various browsers. If you use the wrapper you can fix things like: ....... read more
Wed,
17 Oct 2007