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 [...]
Zach Leatherman has created another DOM creation class, DOMDom, (with support for HTML Fragments) that uses
the CSS query language. But instead of using the language to query nodes, it is used to create nodes.
To make <div style=”width:100%;border:1px solid blue” class=”testClass”><a href=”http://www.google.com/”><span>Google</span></a></div>, you’d have to do the following in other packages:
DomHelper:
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JAVASCRIPT:
Ext.DomHelper.append( myDiv, {
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Othman Laraki of the Google Gears team has published news on the Gears Roadmap and Development Process in which he discusses new features and details on the open process that the Gears team is going to follow.
Two concrete features that are forthcoming are:
Cross-Origin API
Google Gears has a strict same-origin security model. However, some web applications [...]
Jozef Sakalos has created a File Tree widget for Ext that features:
Ajax load and display of nodes
File type icons
File upload
Folder create
File or folder delete
File or folder rename
File or folder move by drag & drop
On demand folder reload
More: continued here
TIBCO has created an Ajax Challenge where the goal is to build the world’s largest mashup over the summer using TIBCO GI.
Your components must:
Must use General Interface™ v3.4.1, an open source Ajax toolkit from TIBCO with over 100 Ajax components and a suite of visual tools.
You may also include other Ajax components and libraries if [...]
Jack Slocum has continued the CSS Selector trend by taking another look at the various frameworks and dispelling some CSS Selectors Speed Myths.
Jack talks about the various approaches, comparing Firefox support to cross browser support, and tweaks the slickspeed tests with a few others, ending up with:
More: continued here
Joe Hewitt has upgraded iUI with some cleanup, and a bunch of new features.
The demo application will show you how it has come along.
New Features
New UI controls: List groups, on/off switches, and fieldsets that look like the iPhone
“Settings” app
Linking to external pages via Ajax: Links to external URLs are now loaded via Ajax and [...]
More: [...]
We have opened up our third annual Ajaxian.com Reader Survey.
We are looking to learn more about the Ajax community, so please spare a couple of minutes and let us know more about how you are using Ajax.
Sample questions are:
Which browser Plug-ins have you used or have you considered using?
Which frameworks have you used or have [...]
Derek Gaw gave an ignite talk tonight onAIR which showed off his Uncluttr project.
Derek works for Amazon, but this is outside of his company work. He is frustrated seeing 1.5MB of content being downloaded when you login, find a book, and then view the detail page. That is too much.
Uncluttr uses the Amazon Web Services [...]
LightWindow 2.0 has been released by Kevin Miller. The new release has been completely rewritten allowing for the user to build their own theme and animations.
Featuring
Dynamic captions
Create a window with a Javascript call
Call LightWindow from an iframe
More parameters to further customize the window presentation
Improved default animations
All Media including Flash Works perfectly now!
Anything can be a [...]
The Ajax Experience is drawing really close. I am excited to get together with everyone on July 25-27th in San Francisco to talk all things Ajax.
Ben and I will be giving our traditional State of Ajax talk, and as we look over the time between the last show and this one quite a lot has [...]
Salil Deshpande has announced a bold move with the Facebook AppFactory. Bay Partners is announcing The AppFactory, a seed program to fund Facebook application developers via a fast-track process.
This program shows that Bay Partners believes that Facebook, in essence, has become the Social Operating System. And historically the creation of an operating system, or [...]
