Ajaxian:
Normally we use CSS selectors to find and tear apart HTML. Sergey Chikuyonok's jujitsu move is to do the opposite. With Zen Coding you take a CSS selector like this:PLAIN TEXTHTML: html:xt>div#header>div#logo+ul#nav>li.item-$*5>a and it generates an HTML structure like this:PLAIN TEXTHTML: (Read More)
TechCrunch:
jQuery is a Javascript library that is used in a large number of web applications and is popular amongst web application developers. It was launched in 2006 by John Resig, and immediately gained a large following due to its lightweight nature and design philosophy. jQuery allows developers to build Javascript web applicatio (Read More)
WebAppers:
TopUp is another easy to use Javascript library for unobtrusively displaying images and webpages in popups. The library is jQuery and jQuery UI driven in order to maintain cross-browser compatibility and compactness.TopUp is absolutely free, also for commercial use. The installation of TopUp consists of including only one f (Read More)
Ajaxian:
Simon Willison snuck in a last-minute topic change, and is now going to give the server-side Javascript talk.The news of the past 24 hours is ChromeOS. For the first time in years, someone’s re-thinking how an OS should work. With Chrome, you turn on your computer and you’re in the browser. What’s really interesting is to c (Read More)
Ajaxian:
Stuart Langridge introduces us to some of the up-and-coming features we're getting with current and future browsers, a nice complement to Robert Nyman's talk, which covered the advanced features of "mainstream" (IE6-compatible) Javascript. After introducing the features that are there today, he also talks about how we can d (Read More)
java.blogs Recent Entries:
Ajaxian » Front PageRobert Nyman walks through some of the more subtle low-level features of Javascript, and some of the idioms that have emerged.Comparisons: Understanding identity (===) versus equality (==).Boolean expressions: Understanding how short-circuit logic (if a && b won’t eval b if a is true);Types: Type coercio (Read More)
Ajaxian:
PPK talks up the excitement of mobile web development, then brings the mood down a notch by listing the overwhelming array of browsers to be targeted! Quirksmode says it all. This talk is about quirks in mobile development, and some of the solutions out there.Mobile CSS QuirksSo many platforms. Take just WebKit. You can't j (Read More)
Ajaxian:
This is in the crazy but fun category, so I had to post this on a Friday. Toki Woki Scroll Clock:Amazing what folks do with div overflows :)All in a few lines of MooTools-used-JS:PLAIN TEXTJAVASCRIPT: var h1, h2, m1, m2, s1, s2;window.addEvent('domready', function() { h1=new Digit(); h2=new Digit(); m1= (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Facebook has just added a new photo uploader tool to their Prototypes directory, the "labs" section of the social network where new programs are released for testing prior to their public rollout. The uploader dramatically improves one what was previously one of the worst experiences on Facebook: adding photos. Despite the (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It only took 3 years to go from HTML2 to HTML4, but the HTML4.01 specifications were published 10 years ago and even though today's web looks very different, we are still waiting for HTML5. The Word Wide Web Consortium (W3C) started preliminary work on HTML5 in 2003 and the W3C HTML Working Group was formed in 2007. Some mo (Read More)
readwriteweb:
Microsoft just announced that it started work on Internet Explorer 9 three weeks ago. Steven Sinofsky, the president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, showed an early build of IE9 during his PDC keynote today. In this presentation, Sinofsky announced that Microsoft will focus on support for new standards lik (Read More)
OSNews:
At PDC '09 Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows and Windows Live division, revealed the first details of the company's next browser, Internet Explorer 9. Even though the new browser is still in an early development stage, the first few builds are being tested internally. It is poised to come with some fancy (Read More)
Ajaxian:
With PDC going on, we get a glimpse at the early stage of IE 9. There is some promise, albeit with omissions!Dean Hachamovitch, IE general manager, gives us an early look whirlwind that discusses:Performance ProgressThe JavaScript engine team members John Montgomery, Steve Lucco and Shanku Niyogi give us an early look at th (Read More)
Ajaxian:
Kevin Miller has updated his simply buttons library to use the button element. This library offers better looking and behaving buttons across all browsers. It does not need a javascript framework and is very easy to install and use.It is all the rage to build a perfect button and you can get some nice ones via SimplyButtons (Read More)
Ajaxian:
Ah the magical 1.0 release. It can feel so illusive :)Kris Zyp has announced the 1.0 of his Persevere uber-server:Persevere is JavaScript storage and application server that uses standards-based interface of HTTP/REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, and REST Channels. Persevere is designed for rich clients application and can be used (Read More)