#ajax (154 links)
- Adactio: Journal—Going Postel adactio.com
The most brittle part of the [front-end] stack is JavaScript [...]<br /> That’s why I’m so surprised that any front-end engineer would knowingly choose to swap out a solid declarative foundation like HTML for a more brittle scripting language.
- isolani - Javascript: Breaking the Web with hash-bangs isolani.co.uk
Head -> desk. "Gawker/Lifehacker have violated the principle of progressive enhancement, and they paid for it immediately with an extended outage on day one of their new site launch. Every JavaScript hiccup will cause an outage, and directly affect Gawker’s revenue stream and the trust of their audience."
Good stats. "If you’re using jQuery on a public-facing site, use the Google CDN to host it." But don't use latest version in production.
"This new feature offers you a way to change the URL displayed in the browser* through javascript without reloading the page. It will also create a back-button event and you even have a state object you can interact with. This means you won’t have to use the hash-hack anymore if you want add state to your AJAX-application, and search engines will be able to index your pages too." Not IE, of course.
- Google Mapplets - Google Code code.google.com
Mini-applications that run within Google Maps. You can create Mapplets that add new features or overlay your data on Google Maps.
- YouTube API Blog: Upcoming Change to YouTube Video Page URLs apiblog.youtube.com
The ? character in the URL will be replaced with #! characters. Not all users will be directed to the new URLs, and the change will be implemented gradually over time. This change is part of a larger AJAX rewrite of the YouTube web site. The old-format URLs will continue working indefinitely when used for browser navigation, so if your web site has existing links to YouTube video pages, you don't need to worry about them breaking.
- Plupload - A tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus plupload.com
Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads.
"Enables you to easily add Microsoft Ajax Library and jQuery scripts to your Web applications" if, horror of horrors, you should need to do something involving MS Ajax.
- Ajaxload - Ajax loading gif generator ajaxload.info
But does it do clockwise *and* anti-clockwise loaders? Clients can be funny.
- Replace document.write using MooTools subtlegradient.com
Maybe you want to use AJAX to load a script that requires the use of document.write. But after teh page has loaded document.write tends to destroy the universe without even asking first! Solution: Replace document.write!
- iui - Google Code code.google.com
User Interface (UI) Library for Safari development on iPhone
I hate myself for marking this. "ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0."
- Plugins | jQuery Plugins plugins.jquery.com
For Ajax-driven pages to have back/forward navigation and to allow bookmarking.
- Shadowbox.js Media Viewer mjijackson.com
Library agnostic lightbox script.
- AJAX Libraries API - Google Code code.google.com
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries.
- Stop using Ajax! - Opera Developer Community dev.opera.com
Or, at least, think more carefully about when and how you use it.
- jCarousel - Riding carousels with jQuery sorgalla.com
A jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).
- Facebox 1.0 famspam.com
A jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages.
AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.
Chris Heilmann's presentation and notes from @mediaAjax.
- How to choose a JavaScript framework » d’bug blog.reindel.com
Choosing the right framework can be tricky, and weeding through a mess of opinionated fanboys (myself included) is intimidating.
- ProtoScript - Main Page (Wiki) docs.protoscript.com
A simplified scripting language for creating Ajax style prototypes for the Web.
- jQuery UI: Widgets, Components, and Interactions ui.jquery.com
A set of themable widgets and interactions, built on top of the jQuery JavaScript Library, that you can use to build highly interactive web applications.
- adaptive path » an interview with flickr's eric costello adaptivepath.com
From 2005. Background.
- jQuery for JavaScript programmers simonwillison.net
I wrote jQuery off as a passing fad. Over the past few months it’s become clear to me exactly how wrong I was. jQuery is an exceptionally clever piece of engineering.
- NoFunc · Nomadic Functions · Javascript nofunc.com
Nomadic functions are small, optimized, and fairly specific. An example may be anything from a simple Drag & Drag function, to a AJAX Star Rating, or a Text Scroller. They are like widgets… but even smaller.
- ClickHeat | Clicks heatmap labsmedia.com
ClickHeat is a visual heatmap of clicks on a HTML page, showing hot and cold click zones.
Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) addresses those limitations.
- Building Accessible Web Applications paciellogroup.com
- DED|Chain™ JavaScript Library dedchain.dustindiaz.com
You get the reliability of Yahoo! UI, and the developer friendliess of jQuery. You also receive the benefits of an easily customizable A.P.I. which puts you in control of how you will work with the library.
This, I think, is when it’s time to bring out Flash. Not for the whole app of course, but used in conjunction with HTML/CSS/JS.
- ThickBox 2.1.1 jquery.com
ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.
- skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard skrbl.com
Write notes, sketch drawings, upload pictures, share files... Everyone sees the same screen
- ThinkFree Online beta thinkfree.com
ThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised of word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation graphics software-all usable online and off.
- Rectangular Marquee Tool marqueetool.net
allows you to select rectangular areas on <DIV> or <IMG> elements, calculate selection coordinates, display them or send them to the server.
- Juicy Studio: Improving Ajax applications for JAWS users juicystudio.com
" Popular screen readers use a virtual buffer to allow users to interact with web content. This article uncovers undocumented behaviour in JAWS 7.1 and later, which allows web developers to build Ajax applications that update the virtual buffer without a
- jQuery Star Rating Super Interface! visualjquery.com
A fully degradable plugin that creates the Star Rating interface based on a simple form structure.
We are averse to using one of the most powerful features of XHTML: the ability to extend the nodes we use with customized, semantically meaningful attributes.
- Masuga Design » Unobtrusive AJAX Star Rating Bar masugadesign.com
A rating bar script done with PHP and mySQL
- Interface elements for jQuery - About Interface interface.eyecon.ro
A collection of plugins for jQuery java script library
If some javascripts are only used by a small percentage of your visitors - why load them each time? It will only cost you bandwidth and your visitors download time [...] Lazy loading is the key. Or dynamic loading of .js files if you will.
- Blogger - Can I get in please? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
How Blogger blocks users from getting past the front door when the browser is JavaScript-capable but is sitting behind script blocking firewalls - and how it’s not alone in making this mistake.