Archive of published articles on May, 2006
Back homeNarrative JavaScript is a small extension to the JavaScript language that enables blocking capabilities for asynchronous operations. This makes writing asynchronous code sequences easier and increases code readability.
Asynchronous or remote scripting has been lurking in the background of web app development for quite some time now. Originally dependent on proprietary technology like Java applets, ActiveX and Flash or clever combinations of disparate technologies like images and cookies, native support for the XMLHttpRequest (XHR) object in modern browsers has made it easier than ever to make web apps more responsive and more like their desktop counterparts. This lower barrier to entry also makes it easier to make poor decisions and inappropriate use of a powerful technology.
Website: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/ajax/responsible-asynchronous-scripting
More rounded corners: Taking the “Sliding Doors” approach to fluid, rounded-corner/border/shadow-based dialog boxes, with examples .
Website: http://www.schillmania.com/content/entries/2006/04/more-rounded-corners/
EJS TreeGrid is DHTML component written in pure JavaScript to display and edit data in table, grid, tree view or grid with tree on HTML page.
Website: http://www.treegrid.com/TreeGrid3_7/Html/TreeGridWeb.html
Ideacodes has been hired to redesign the DraperRichards.com website. Draper Richards L.P. is a venture capital firm investing in early-stage information technology and telecommunications companies.
This tab content script uses Ajax to let you display a selection of external content on your page inside a DIV and via CSS tabs! We got our inspiration for this script from Yahoo’s new homepage, which employs such a concept to show news in an organized fashion.
Website: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ajaxtabscontent/
The next generation of web apps make heavy use of JavaScript and CSS. We’ll show you how to make those apps responsive and quick.
Website: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascript-fast
This article guides you through the AJAX basics and gives you two simple hands-on examples to get you started.
Website: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/AJAX:Getting_Started
Blog Flux MapStats is the coolest way of tracking your website visitors. Not only does it provide the normal statistics and graphs, we have incorporated the system into Google Maps! Instantly see where your latest visitors are coming from, and find out what they are looking for.
Website: http://mapstats.blogflux.com/
AdvancedAJAX is a JavaScript object allowing to use XMLHttpRequest object easier and speeding up development of AJAX based projects. It consists a bound of methods helping creating queries, error handling, usage with HTML forms as well as connection timeouts and reconnecting.
Nice AJAX tree tutorial and script using Prototype and Behaviour libraries.
A very cool page that allows you to choose from several style of loading gif and then add any color to it.
Website: http://www.ajaxload.info/
As everybody knows, refreshing pages is so 1999. AJAX, DOM, whatever you call it makes it possible to let people edit a piece of text inline without having to use a submit button.
Website: http://www.yvoschaap.com/index.php/weblog/ajax_inline_instant_update_text_20/
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web browsers and platforms, and JavaScript’s lack of modularity makes sharing, testing, and reusing AJAX components difficult and fragile.
Website: http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/
DesignDemo is an innovative idea in design sights, and one of the favorite sections of my blog. However, with increasing client work I’ve had little time to update it. What does this mean for you? An opportunity to participate. For the first time I’ll be accepting applications for editors and summer interns for DesignDomo.
Do you love interactive design, and have an opinion? I don’t care if you have a degree in HCI or are a self trained designer. What matters is your eye for innovation and your ability to tell it like it is.
What do you get out of it? A byline, profile page, reference and a great friend in the bay area. I don’t like resumes so please send me a link to your blog or an email describing why you would like to be part of this project.
Cheers,
Max
Since I wrote the original XMLHttpRequest Debugging user script for Firefox (screenshot), almost a year ago, it has received a lot of positive feedback and a number of you expressed interest in having the tool support IE, to ease your AJAX development. Finally, here is a port of the script to run on IE, in the form of a bookmarklet
Pyxy-gallery is a PHP script to make an image gallery. There are many other scripts to do this, but this one is different. Maybe even better.
Website: http://fennecfoxen.org/pyxy/gallery
Learn how to build an Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) reader, as well as a Web component that you can place on any Web site to look at the articles in the RSS feeds.
Website: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-ajaxrss/index.html?ca=drs-
Blursoft MetaForum takes a lot of inspiration for it’s features from AJAX and Web2.0 models, but does so correctly, the way they were designed to be used. Back buttons work. Browser Histories stay intact.
Website: http://www.blursoft.com/metaForum/