Archive for the ‘JavaScript’ Category
Monday, December 29th, 2008
We’ve been using flash for a simple slideshow features on some client sites. I decided to look into using Javascript/jQuery to provide the same functionality. I used the jQuery Cycle plugin and made some additions to allow for better control of image preloading.
Why switch?
-Eliminate the dependence on Flash. Users who don’t have flash installed [...]
Tags: JavaScript, jQuery, slideshow
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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008
This is something we’ve all had to deal with at one time or another. I thought that this article had an interesting take on the problem. The author also provides all the code to take care of breaking on spaces.
The interesting part was that he programmatically inserts “invisible” spaces into words that are [...]
Tags: JavaScript, toolkit, word wrap
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
(In my opinion of course)
This was the session about Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This was a session by the authors of a diagramming tool built on the web.
Check it out
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Here is an interesting article about writing javascript code. From what I’ve seen of Matt Crawford’s code it seems like we are already doing what this guy is talking about, but I thought I would share the link
AJAX developers continue migrating to unobtrusive JavaScript
Tags: ajax, code style, JavaScript
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Thursday, June 12th, 2008
I’m finally getting around to posting some notes from my second day at the Google I/O conference.
Keynote
The keynote speaker was Marissa Mayer, who was more interesting for me because she talked a lot about how Google does statistical research for everything they release. They’ll release two or three versions of, say, the search results page, [...]
Tags: conference, google, Google IO, Java, JavaScript, search
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Thursday Keynote
I liked the intro, the first ten minutes, of the first keynote speaker. The keynote speaker on the first day of the conference looked at one part of the history of computing, the trade-offs between computing power and accessibility, and ease of deployment and functionality. With mainframes, we had a lot of raw computing [...]
Tags: ajax, conference, google, JavaScript, maps
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
The Conference has run about as they usually do. Out of a day, there was one very good presentation and the rest were so so. Seems to be about the norm.
The one great presentation was about GWT. It was a use case presentation. The presenters were the developers of the Lombardi Blueprint.
This is an on-line [...]
Tags: google, Google IO, gwt, JavaScript
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Google launched a new project under Google Code where they are hosting the 5 popular javascript libraries for anyone to include in their site. The thinking is that by having a bunch of websites link against a common location for their javascript libraries the user’s browser can cache it once and use the cached copy, [...]
Tags: browser cache, google, JavaScript
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