Greg Reimer is doing really interesting work with reglib and he now has a neutral post on events and how he favours the pattern of mouse enter / leave to mouse over / out.He shows an example using the pyramid illustrations (as above) and then ends with:The title of this post is a bit misleading. [...]
s3slider is a simple jQuery plugin that smoothly lets you fade through a set of images.You include the script and then:PLAIN TEXTHTML: // setup the images<div id=”s3slider”> <ul id=”s3sliderContent”> <li class=”s3sliderImage”> <img src=”#” /> <span>Your text comes here</span> </li> <li class=”s3sliderImage”> [...]
Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome:Chromium can’t be everything to all people. People use web browsers in a variety of environments and for a wide variety of jobs. Personal tastes and needs vary widely from one user to [...]
PLAIN TEXTHTML: <!doctype html> That is what HTML 5 defines, and Dustin Diaz agrees as he lays down the skinny:Doctypes have long been in standardista discussions circles. Why to use them. Which one to use. Which one is best. These are all <sarcasm>really fun details</sarcasm> to get into, but the most important aspect of any doctype is [...]
I realise that we are an international community here at Ajaxian, but for the American Thanksgiving holiday, I thought it would be OK to take stock and say some thanks too.Firstly, to the bright hackers who brought us not only XHR (thanks Microsoft), but porting it to other browsers, and then the hard work of [...]
If you skip in 20 minutes to the presentation above you will find Charles Jolley talking about SproutCore:During this presentation I actually built and deployed a small application on stage but the most interesting thing, I think, is the part where I talk about how thick client frameworks like SproutCore change the way you build [...]
Dion and I were just talking about NetBeans (Sun’s free Java IDE) with some colleagues the other day. To those in the Java community, just mentioning “NetBeans” can conjure up some of the worst memories of mounting file systems and purple-hued user interfaces.But in reality, today’s NetBeans is a fantastic IDE with a modern-looking interface [...]
Damian Wielgosik has created Drawter, a web based tool to layout pages:Drawter is a tool written in JavaScript and based on jQuery library. It provides you the possibility to literally draw your website’s code. It runs on every single web-browser which makes it really useful and helpful. Each tag is presented as a layer you [...]
One of the best aspects of living in the Bay Area is bumping into all sorts of interesting computer folks. Today I’m working from a coffee shop and bumped into Tantek Çelik, CSS and Microformats man. He pointed me to a fabulous blog series introducing Microformats and all the major formats for a more lay-person [...]
Bertrand Le Roy pointed me to Seadragon Ajax, a JavaScript client that gives you deep zoom (think: Google Maps) ability in short order.To build the thing itself you use Deep Zoom Composer and then you choose whether you want the Silverlight version or this Ajax one.The embed viewer is easy to use too.Seadragon.embed(”400px”, “300px”, “http://seadragon.com/content/images/bike.dzi”, [...]
Another experiment with sound, data: URIs, and the embed tag.SK has shown that it’s possible to generate wave file in Javascript and play it. All this happens in the browser and without requiring Flash. He’s built a sine wave generator and a song player.I came across a post about putting .wav files in data: URIs [...]
Ernest is up to his old canvas tricks again. This time he has published a car navigation demo that lets you drive around a set of tiles from a map (Google Maps, OpenStreetMap) and it paints your course at the same time.How did he do it?The key of the whole implementation is the use of [...]
We posted on Steve’s UA Profiler tool, and John Resig has taken a nice look at the current results.It actually now looks like Minefield (Firefox nightly) is getting 10 out of 11, and the other browsers are doing great too.Jonas Sicking of Mozilla has a really nice comment that talks about what the engines are [...]
Aaron Conran has created a new set of AIR classes, as well as an example called ExtPlayer to show them off.Ext.air.MusicPlayerExt 2.0.2 introduced an Ext.air.Sound class, which is useful for playing small sounds such as beep and chimes. In contrast, Ext.air.MusicPlayer is meant for long running sounds such as music and podcasts which you would [...]
KUMAGAI Kentaro has created a JSCocoa based interactive console for the iPhone:I’ve been struggling with transform property of UIView for long time. at last, I’ve decided to create UIMonkey that allows to manipulate the variables by trial and error through HTTP in Javascript with SpiderMonkey. Few days after I’ve started the project, I found JSCocoa [...]
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