Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tooltips using the Prototype javascript framework.
Style: Easy to customize.
Position: Complete control over tooltip positions.
Round: Configurable rounded corners without PNG images.
Speech bubble effect!
http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/prototip2/
MooMonth is a full calendar application written in javascript. Heavily configurable and customizable. It features smooth transitions between different views. Still in alpha stages though, it will be several weeks before ready to be tested in production.
http://www.moomonth.com/
PopBox is an image magnification javascript solution for dynamically moving and resizing images on your web page. Javascript? Yes – I know it’s nothing new and that you’ve been able to move and resize things in Javascript for years, but only now is there a prepackaged solution that makes it as easy as 3 [...]
Yay!
Hey, guess what???
You’ve now got your own personal invite to bubbletop!!! Woo-hoo!Thank you to the thousands of you who have shown enormous patience – we know this has been a long time coming. However, bubbletop has had it’s massages and the lolCats in the system have had their cheezeburgers. We’re now about to [...]
iPhone Web Development Tips and Official Documentation Released
As soon as the iPhone was in developers hands on Friday they were hacking around. This involved doing a “for (var key in document)” and the like to see what was available.
In an ideal world, Apple would have released a beautiful set of documentation for the community, but [...]
Dojo 0.9 has been released in beta. This is a brand new Dojo, and a very exciting time for the project:
SPEED: Stripped of all ‘excessive’, redundant, and backwards-compatible code, the new Dojo core is a speed-demon. It consists of a streamlined, compact Base (aka: dojo.js) which provides a plethora of reliable features for you [...]
Are you writing classic ASP pages and want to join in the Ajax revolution too? Really? Well, Ajaxed is for you. The framework is simialr to xajax for PHP, in that it allows you to tie in to a named function on th eserver side.
It looks like this:
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JAVASCRIPT:
<!–#include virtual=”/ajaxed/ajaxed.asp”–>
<%
set page = new AjaxedPage
page.draw()
sub init() [...]
Nick Stakenburg has written a nice simple tooltip built on Script.aculo.us called Effect.Tooltip.
It is as simple to setup as:
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JAVASCRIPT:
new Effect.Tooltip(element, content, {title : ‘title’, className: ‘class’, offset: {x:0, y:0}});
More: continued here
Christopher Lukic has created an iPhone application that has been optimized with the network issues in mind.
It’s a bar and subway finder for New York City, and I implement a number of techniques to overcome some of the short coming of AT&T’s edge network. Virtually the entire site is composed from a single javascript file [...]
High Level / Big News
June has been a busy month, and the focus has been around the release of Google Gears, and the Apple iPhone. Both have shaken up the market showing the the future for Ajax is bright and expanding. It is reaching to the desktop, and the phone.
Offline: Gears and AIR
Shortly after Gears [...]
The jQuery team has a new release, jQuery 1.1.3. The main features are:
Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2
A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events
A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support
New selectors: Unicode, Escape, Inequality, and more
Animation [...]
John Murch has been running some benchmarks on both his iPhone and MacBook Pro to get a comparison .
For example, JSSpeed:
iPhone
Try/Catch with errors 378
Layer movement 3078
Random number engine (Did not compute)
Math engine 3474
DOM speed Testing… (998/1000)
Array functions 1739
String functions 535
Ajax declaration 1089
Total Duration
10293 ms
Macbook Pro
Try/Catch with errors 5
Layer movement 33
Random number engine [...]
More: [...]
Jack Slocum has kicked off his new Ext JS blog with an entry on his experience writing an application with Ext JS, AIR, Aptana, and lots of Red Bull.
As part of the experience Jack has created Ext.air.MainWindow which makes your AIR window look like a Ext.Window.
Jack actually created two versions, the online one actually uses [...]
It is no surprise that a bunch of news over the weekend has been related to developers spending time with the iPhone. We aren’t interested in “i love the iPhone” posts, but there are some interesting ones such as Firebug for iPhone.
Joe Hewitt was sick thinking about debugging with alert() again, and didn’t want to [...]
Now we can get our hands on an iPhone, developers are testing out Safari to see what is actually available. How is the DOM? What events get fired? How does the keyboard send onkey* events? How is scrolling handled? How is the JavaScript support?
Abe Fettig has been jotting down his notes, which include:
Poking around the [...]