Library
Prototype 1.6.0 RC1: Changes to the Class and Event APIs, Hash rewrite, and bug fixes
Sam Stephenson has announced Prototype 1.6.0 RC1 which has "fixed a handful of bugs and made some changes to the Class and Event APIs in response to your feedback. We?ve also addressed a long-standing ....... read more
Tue,
16 Oct 2007
GroupsWiki and Protoedit
Ben Nolan has open sourced GroupsWiki (which we first talked about almost a year ago). GroupsWiki is a visual wiki, and doesnt require users to learn a special wiki markup. Part of the release is Ben ....... read more
Tue,
16 Oct 2007
IWL: A Perl widget Library for the web
Viktor Kojouharov was sick of constantly having html code snippets inside his perl code. He was seeing too many projects where the code was a messy mixture of perl, html, and in some places, javascrip ....... read more
Tue,
16 Oct 2007
MileScript: A new language that compiles to JavaScript
Joshua Harrison has released MileScript which in his words:
.... is an object-oriented, strongly-typed high-level language which we developed from scratch, while following the models of Java and C#. ....... read more
Wed,
10 Oct 2007
$: Now with more magic!
Dustin Diaz is on a roll :) He has posted about Roll out your own JavaScript Interfaces in which he discusses the desire to use style from libraries such as prototype, jquery and friends, yet in a sma ....... read more
Mon,
08 Oct 2007
GPSGate: Access GPS location information through JavaScript
Johan Franson has developed a solution to access a local GPS through Javascript /
cross-scripting. His Library works in all browsers with that dynamically can include
.js script files. Including Firef ....... read more
Mon,
08 Oct 2007
Sun Labs Lively Kernel: Morphic UI for the Web (Self and Squeak)
Sun Labs has released a new Lively Kernel project that takes the Morphic UI framework that Sun developed for Self, and implements it in JavaScript. This enables you to run the kernel and start interac ....... read more
Mon,
08 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
JSValidate: Form Validation Library
JSValidate is a simple Library based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us to allow you to do form validation. You simply use special CSS classes to annotate your form and let the Library do the rest. You ....... read more
Thu,
04 Oct 2007
Persistent Objects with Persevere the client and Jsponic the server
Kris Zyp has made a charge in the persistent JavaScript space by releasing both a client and a server to handle JSON persistence. Persevere s an open source persistent object mapping framework for Jav ....... read more
Tue,
02 Oct 2007
Sass-y Dynamic CSS
Geoffrey Grosenbach gets all funky when he discusses dynamic CSS using the Sass engine that comes with HAML. It allows you to: Nesting If you are sick of repeating yourself, you can get dry and nest y ....... read more
Mon,
01 Oct 2007
Ext 2.0 Alpha Release
The Ext team has announced the first public release of Ext 2.0. As our very own, Rey Bango, said:
This new version of the Ext framework introduces a host of new features, a new document center, expan ....... read more
Mon,
01 Oct 2007
Canvas Loading Indicator for the iPhone and beyond
Adam van den Hoven wrote a Canvas Loading Indicator after he realised that animated gifs and the iPhone didn't mesh. First he wrote the basic spinner: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
function getLo ....... read more
Sat,
29 Sep 2007
DOMAssistant 2.0 released. Adds chainability, Ajax, and more
The folks at 456 bereastreet are reporting about the newest release of Robert Nyman?s DOM Assistant. In case you arent aware of DOM Assistant: DOMAssistant is plainly an extremely efficient way to w ....... read more
Fri,
28 Sep 2007
Flexjson 1.5: Transformers and Filters
Charlie Hubbard has updated his well received Flexjson Library and has released version 1.5. There are two major feature updates: Filters You can now easily include and exclude items from the JSON: PL ....... read more
Thu,
27 Sep 2007
Vortex: A new offline abstraction on top of Google Gears
Brian Dunnington liked what he saw with the Dojo Offline Toolkit, and wanted to abstract it out so you could use functionality with any JavaScript Library. He ended up with a new Library called Vortex ....... read more
Thu,
27 Sep 2007
IEContentLoaded: Yet another DOMContentLoaded
Hedger Wang has a different solution for the DOMContentLoaded issue that Dean Edwards and YUI also solves. The solution created an element and tries to scroll in it. If an error is thrown, the DOM isn ....... read more
Wed,
26 Sep 2007
jMaki 1.0 Final Release: Ajax for Java and PHP
Greg Murray has put the stake in the ground and released jMaki 1.0. The release comes with "bundles" for PHP and Java which you can choose on the download area. Included in the bundles: The core jMak ....... read more
Wed,
26 Sep 2007
JS-CTYPES: Calling out to native code from XUL
Mark Finkle has ported Python's ctypes to JavaScript, and has created JS-CTYPES which allows you to declare and call exported methods from binary/shared libraries from Mozilla?s privileged JavaScript. ....... read more
Tue,
25 Sep 2007
If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure?
.... would you hold it against Aaron Gustafson? Aaron has written about "laying out images consistently within a design is difficult; especially when you hand the keys over to someone else to fill in ....... read more
Tue,
25 Sep 2007