yboss - a wrapper for Yahoo?s BOSS API
BOSS - Build Your Own Search Service (the your is silent for reasons I cannot tell you as it would endanger the lives of our agents in the field) is a Yahoo! API to access their search index and get t ....... read more
11 days ago
Groups of 50+ Ajax Examples
Noupe keeps the roundups going with Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials that consists of a lot of projects we have covered over time, but some new ones, and the added touch of putt ....... read more
18 days ago
Coverflow again?. with Canvas
For some reason, we like to implement Coverflow to see if the technology of choice is decent enough to do so. This latest version works with Canvas, and does a nice job of smoothly doing the animatio ....... read more
Wed,
03 Sep 2008
Reading ID3 tags with JavaScript
Jacob Seidelin is up to more tricks, this time playing with the binary side of life and writing a library that can reading ID3 tags from MP3 files and such.
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
// URL o ....... read more
Tue,
19 Aug 2008
A simple solution to the ?other? problem with select boxes
Jeffrey Olchovy has posted a simple tutorial on using jQuery to solve a "select-to-input toggle" that shows and hides a text field when you select "Other". It overloads the same form name, so the ser ....... read more
Mon,
18 Aug 2008
Custom events as API end points for key bindings and more
Inspired by the Gmail team and how they created well known Greasemonkey endpoints and the custom events work that I have been doing, I was lead to play with custom events as a way to tie into key bind ....... read more
Fri,
15 Aug 2008
Badging Flickr with Dojo
Dylan Schiemann has a really nice case study post on implementing a Flickr badge with Dojo. What is particularly interesting is how he starts with a simple version: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Wed,
25 Jun 2008
Obsurvey: Ajax-heavy Survey Engine
Allan Ebdrup wrote in to point us to Obsurvey. Obsurvey features a highly dynamic interface for building custom surveys; you can choose from a bunch of different survey elements and customize them in ....... read more
Mon,
16 Jun 2008
Frank Sinatra, Flash, and Ajax: Deckmyplace.com
Scott Boyce wrote in with an interesting story about deckmyplace.com. The site was originally designed as a Flash site, but when the mandate came from the top to use HTML instead of Flash, he had to ....... read more
Thu,
19 Jun 2008
iWidgets Public Beta: Impressive Widget Builder
Joining with the Web 2.0 go-meta business model thats so popular these days, iWidgets provides a service that lets you build widgets once and deploy them to various popular widget APIs and platform ....... read more
Thu,
19 Jun 2008
72photos: Proto/Scripty Photo Sharing Site
XMG Networks has thrown their hat into the on-line photo sharing ring with the launch of 72photos, an Ajax-heavy site which looks at least partially inspired by Apple's iPhoto '08-generated web galler ....... read more
Wed,
18 Jun 2008
On-line Auction Aggregator Innovates with Ajax
Dov Katz pointed us to Josh Bochners labor of love, http://www.jigadig.com/. Its an Ajax-heavy jQuery-powered auction site aggregator. What really got our attention is the search results page, whic ....... read more
Thu,
29 May 2008
Reminded of speaking your YAHOO.lang
Mitchell Amihod has a nice little post talking about the features in YAHOO.lang which is probably the least mentioned part of YUI. He starts out with the type checking functions such as like isNull(), ....... read more
Tue,
22 Apr 2008
Usable Directory Listings with Dojo
Sam Foster has written up an example of using Dojo to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. You can now tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections:
This tutorial s ....... read more
Wed,
30 Apr 2008
Cuzillion: Performance best practices tool
Steve Souders has released a nice little tool called Cuzillion which has the tag line of ?cuz there are zillion pages to check, although it could also be that there are a zillion ways to do Web devel ....... read more
Fri,
25 Apr 2008
Making application modules communicate with each other using Decoupling
Ive been talking about event driven application design in JavaScript in January last year and inspired Caridy Patiņo to write his Bubbling Library based on these ideas. Caridy now upped the ante a b ....... read more
Tue,
22 Apr 2008
JSONVid: Pure JavaScript Video Player
Jacob Seidelin went on a ( crazy :) ) mission to create a pure JavaScript video player that didn't use Flash:
My first thought was to read binary video files using a technique like the Andy Na posted ....... read more
Mon,
21 Apr 2008
Multiple File Uploads with Aptana Jaxer
Dealing with file uploads can be a test of a Web framework. I personally long for the input type="file" to be improved with items such as multiple="true" for multiselection, let alone showing the stat ....... read more
Thu,
20 Mar 2008
Jack is back: Ext for Air and Vista
Jack had posted a couple of entries back to back in the world of Ext. First, he has been playing with Air again, and quickly wrapped the Ext 2.0 docs in Air, which would have been helpful when I was ....... read more
Tue,
19 Feb 2008
Django Template Language in JavaScript
I am learning at lot at the Dojo Developers Day one. Whenever I met Dojo folks I get the impression that there are 55 gems in the library that I have no idea about! One of them is Neil Roberts impleme ....... read more
Thu,
07 Feb 2008