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Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Show/Hide Login Panel Built with MooTools

Conserving screen real-estate while still providing good content to the user has always been a challenge for designers and developers and while larger screen dimensions are becoming more prominent, it ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Coda Slider Effect

The effect of sliding panels has become extremely popular for categorizing  displaying large amounts of data on a single page. One of the most notable implementations of this effect was done by Pan ....... read more
Tue,
03 Jun 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Writing Your First YUI Application

Eric Miraglia has posted a great Tutorial on how to build your first YUI application. He runs you through the steps of creating a simple application that leverages YUIs AutoComplete Control to create ....... read more
Thu,
15 May 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Using YSlow for Performance Analysis

Kristopher William Zyp has written a post on how to use YSlow to analyze the performance of JavaScript applications. To understand what aspects of a Web application you need to improve, you must prop ....... read more
Mon,
05 May 2008
The seven rules of pragmatic progressive enhancement

Ive been talking about progressive enhancement here before and got a lot of flak in comments about it. It seemed that there was a general misunderstanding of progressive enhancement and unobtrusive s ....... read more
Wed,
07 May 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Simple Save Message Using MooTools

It's been awhile since we've put up an Ajaxian Featured Tutorial and so we're going to get back into the swing of things with a nice, simple Tutorial using MooTools. Giving users feedback during a "sa ....... read more
Tue,
04 Mar 2008
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: JavaScript Basics

I have to say that at one point, I truly thought that JavaScript was using some type of "black magic". Things such as closures really threw me for a loop and I was fortunate to have some good folks to ....... read more
Thu,
29 Nov 2007
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Slideshare Gallery Viewer, no API needed

For developers, having an API available to access information from your favorite site is a good thing. Its not always necessary, though, as shown by Christian Heilmann in his latest post. Christian w ....... read more
Fri,
02 Nov 2007
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: When is your page ready?

In this Tutorial, Patrick Hunlock takes us through a pages ready states and shows how to write JavaScript code to determine when a pages DOM elements are loaded and available: The problem with windo ....... read more
Tue,
16 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
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: AutoCompleter 101

Jamie Mcconnell has taken the age old classic Ajax autocompleter, and has created a simple Tutorial using jQuery and PHP. Jamie takes time to explain the "why" as much as the "how": PLAIN TEXT JAVASCR ....... read more
Mon,
24 Sep 2007
Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Building a Flex DataGrid

Here's the first entry in what we hope will become a regular feature on Ajaxian. The Ajaxian Featured Tutorial will feature a Tutorial that we've found interesting and we think the community will enjo ....... read more
Fri,
31 Aug 2007