When to use XMLHttpRequest and when to use IFrame
IFrame creates a history event, enables back button. http://www.blueskyonmars.com/archives/2005/02/10/when_to_use_xmlhttprequest_and_when_to_use_iframe.html
View ArticleHula, an “open source collaboration server” announced at LinuxWorld yesterday
From Novell. Web clients in the style of Gmail http://www.nat.org/2005/february/#15-February-2005
View Articlebuzzword alert: ajax
async javascript + xml. i suppose it’s better then calling it web 2.0 http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php
View ArticleMental Health Through Ignorance
Greasemonkey script to hide stories in Bloglines about topics you don’t want to read http://www.deftcode.com/archives/ignorance_is_bliss.html
View Articlesnippet: “next gen” bookmarklet
Bookmarklet with remotely loaded source. Anyone starting to get scared? http://www.bigbold.com/snippets/posts/show/63
View ArticleNetflix is using Ajax to bring detailed info into the queue
Simple, but nice. http://flickr.com/photos/kellan/13363278/
View ArticleGoogle Maps on Rails, integration packaged as a simple controller.
Saw this, lost it, found it again. Would be great for a re-launch of WifiMug as a wiki++ http://akuaku.org/archives/2005/04/google_maps_on.shtml
View Articlescript.aculo.us – web 2.0 javascript
Madrobby’s platform for mind blowing javascript/ajax hacking http://script.aculo.us/
View ArticleDrag the boxes, stretch the lines
We all wrote this applet back in ’97, but Les puts the final nail in, with an elegant behavioural javascript impl. http://www.decafbad.com/blog/2005/07/02/drag_the_boxes_stretch_the_lines
View ArticleDrawing lines in JavaScript
Very clever http://www.p01.org/articles/DHTML_techniques/Drawing_lines_in_JavaScript/
View ArticleJavaScript Cheat Sheet
Not quite a replacement for DevEdge, but very good http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/javascript/javascript-cheat-sheet/
View ArticleJavaScript Shell – an interactive eval environment with access to the current...
How come no one told me this existed?! Now I just need some time to play with it http://www.squarefree.com/shell/
View ArticleUsing prototype.js v1.3.1
Prototype deserves its own book, or at least several chapters. http://www.sergiopereira.com/articles/prototype.js.html
View ArticleAJAX using only an image
Does this technique open up the possibility of “smart” entries with rich Javascript controls in your aggregator? (and the concurrent security problems?)
View ArticleComments Tweaked
Comments should now properly refresh on Firefox 1.5rc2 (also fixed for any other browser that was deciding that $('commentList').lastChild means the smattering of whitespace between a closing...
View ArticleFirebug
Firefox extension for debugging HTML, CSS, AJAX, and Javascript http://times.usefulinc.com/2006/01/22-firebug
View ArticleComments Effect Fixed, Hopefully For the Last Time
Phil finally convinced me that I wasn’t going to get the Firefox team to break the DOM standard in the name of elegant code, so I’ve gone ahead and added the two line Javascript fix for the comment...
View ArticleNBL
“I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say they wouldn’t use Ruby because it lacks automated refactoring tools. Ruby doesn’t actually need them in the way Java does; it’s like refusing to...
View ArticleGmail Greasemonkey API
Semi-official GMail API from Mark Pilgrim for use in Greasemonkey. Used to build RTM + GMail http://code.google.com/p/gmail-greasemonkey/wiki/GmailGreasemonkey10API
View ArticleClik here to view.
There’s a feed for that
tl;dr photosnearme I recently was added to a “People like John Resig” Twitter list. I am nothing like John Resig. In particular I suck at Javascript. However, given the annoyance of properly...
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