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jQuery Roundup: Rails, Wordpress, and new plugins
jQuery has had a recent set of interesting news, so we thought we should write it up: jQuery works nicely with Rails. Geoff Buesing assumed that switching his Rails application from Prototype to jQue ....... read more
Mon,
21 May 2007
One-Line JavaScript Memoization
Oliver Steele has written up some of his implementations of memoization in JavaScript. He ends up with: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
function memoizeConstantMethod(o, p) {
var f = ....... read more
Thu,
17 May 2007
AJAX Feed API: Blogroll and Slideshow Controls
We have discussed the Google AJAX Feed API when it launched. It offers Ajax developers the ability to access any public feed through a unified API, bypassing any domain issues in a secure way. The te ....... read more
Thu,
17 May 2007
Automating JS Behavior Registration
Gabriel Handford has created a behavior.js script that allows you to unobtrusively automate Event.observe'tion. Magic is in naming conventions, so that: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Fri,
18 May 2007
Flash Tooltips using jQuery
Peter Goodman wanted really rich tooltips, so he decided to experiment with Flash tooltips using jQuery. jQuery has a Flash plugin that lets you embed Flash movies with code such as: PLAIN TEXT JAVASC ....... read more
Wed,
16 May 2007
Velocity2JS: Templating within
Velocity is a popular templating system for Java developers. Velocity2JS takes the engine and has it output JavaScript functions. Example Velocity Template PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Tue,
15 May 2007
Slider.js - Prototype based Carousel
Bruno Bornsztein has created Slider.js, a carousel widget that flips between content, based on Prototype and Script.aculo.us. You can see it in action, or download it.
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Mon,
14 May 2007
JS Commander: JavaScript console via proxy
Shinya Kasatani has created JS Commander, an HTTP proxy server with a JavaScript console. You run the Ruby based proxy, configure a browser to use it, and then you get access to a command prompt to pl ....... read more
Mon,
14 May 2007
iCarousel: open source carousel
Fabio Zendhi Nagao has created iCarousel, an open source javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets. It is very flexible, builds on MooTools v1.1, and an example looks like: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCR ....... read more
Fri,
11 May 2007
Rich Text Controls: Tiny MCE 2.1.1 and Control.TextArea
There are a couple of updates in the world of rich text controls. Ryan Johnson has created a new control: Control.TextArea. This is a very different tool, as it isn't about WYSIWYG functionality, but ....... read more
Thu,
10 May 2007
New Explorer Canvas Release
Erik Arvidsson has released a new version of ExCanvas, the wrapper around VML that implements the canvas tag on IE. This has enabled applications such as Yahoo! Pipes. With Silverlight, maybe a versi ....... read more
Tue,
08 May 2007
phpMyAdmin Query Browser
Dougal Matthews has created a phpMyAdmin Query Browser as part of a University project that he has been working on in Edinburgh, Scotland. This is a prototype system that he plans on continuing over t ....... read more
Tue,
08 May 2007
MooTools 1.1 Released
MooTools version 1.1 has been released with "with crazy optimizations for speed, compatibility, flexibility, and all around greatness." New Features Custom Events: A brand-new API to define custom ev ....... read more
Tue,
08 May 2007