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2.6Beautiful Code Documentation
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3.0State of the Web 2008
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5.6defaultValueActsAsHint
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6.2Palm gets it’s Mojo back?
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7.1jQuery pageSlide: throwing content around
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5.4Firebug 1.3 Final Release
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4.9Backwards compatibility and HTML 5
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4.6Sharing and creating HTML and CSS templates
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6.7Watch out for the zoom; Debugging fun with Canvas
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4.8Web Workers update for Firefox 3.1
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7.6AddressChooser: address picker in real-time
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5.5Technical Details Behind iWork.com
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9.4Detecting twitter users with JavaScript - handy or evil?
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5.5SendMeHome with GWT
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5.6QEvent: Small, Portable Event Library
Friday January 9th, 2009
2.6
Beautiful Code Documentation
From Ajaxian, 11 hours ago,
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Atul Varma (who I have the absolute pleasure to work with now) has created code documentation that actually looks beautiful. Typography matters.
You can check it out via his Ubiquity documentation example that shows you side by side documentation with the actual source code itself. This context is terrific. He does this all dynamically, and uses [...]
3.0
State of the Web 2008
From Ajaxian, 11 hours ago,
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John Allsopp has put together the data from his extensive State of the Web 2008 survey. In it you will find details on who was surveyed to set context, the browser / os usage claimed, and answers on the use of technology such as:
Markup usage
CSS and other presentation technology
JavaScript, Ajax, and the DOM
Flash, Silverlight [...]
5.6
defaultValueActsAsHint
From Ajaxian, 15 hours ago,
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Thomas Fuchs has created defaultValueActsAsHint, an implementation of the Input Prompt pattern:
An often occuring UI pattern is “use the value of a textfield as hint what to input”. These fields all auto-clear when the user first focuses it (by clicking or tabbing it), and if nothing it entered, the hint will be shown once again [...]
6.2
Palm gets it’s Mojo back?
From Ajaxian, 20 hours ago,
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“The need is obvious for a cross-device mobile javascript library supporting iphone, palm, and android. blackberry browser still blows” — Joe Hewitt
Joe of course created the popular iUI framework that mimics the native iPhone look and feel and gives you nice simple iPhone features via JavaScript.
Palm is on his list, because it is back in [...]
Thursday January 8th, 2009
7.1
jQuery pageSlide: throwing content around
From Ajaxian, 1 day ago,
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Scott Robbin (Songza co-founder) has created a very cool jQuery plugin for pageSlide, an interaction based off of Aza's prototypes for Firefox Mobile and Ubiquity mouse gestures. The plugin wraps body content into a container and shifts it off of the page whenever a click event is fired, revealing a secondary interaction pane.
This plugin allows [...]
5.4
Firebug 1.3 Final Release
From Ajaxian, 1 day ago,
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Rob Campbell posted on the 1.3 final release of Firebug, the stable release for the Firefox 3 world:
Release notes are here. As mentioned previously, this version will not be compatible with Firefox 3.1 (Shiretoko) and up. For that you’ll need a Firebug 1.4 alpha, soon to be dubbed beta available on getfirebug.com’s releases directory. Notes [...]
4.9
Backwards compatibility and HTML 5
From Ajaxian, 1 day ago,
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John Allsopp has a thoughtful piece that races some old concerns about the new tag set in HTML 5, and how we will ever be able to jump on that train when the cabooze still has IE.old train cars.
It is great to have new semantics for <section> and all, but what will browsers do with [...]
4.6
Sharing and creating HTML and CSS templates
From Ajaxian, 1 day ago,
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There are a slew of HTML/CSS design sharing template sites out there. What if there was a manifest that defined what they had, and tools could work with that so you could import repositories.
That is the vision that Daniel Glazman had when just created the HTML+CSS Templates Manifest 1.0 CC licensed spec.
You would end up [...]
Wednesday January 7th, 2009
6.7
Watch out for the zoom; Debugging fun with Canvas
From Ajaxian, 2 days ago,
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Ben was cursing at a bug in some canvas code that he was playing with, where the rendering was off. One piece of his UI was blurred instead of crisp.
The debugging exersize was fun, and he shares it with you on his personal blog.
The moral of the story is: watch out for that zoom feature [...]
4.8
Web Workers update for Firefox 3.1
From Ajaxian, 2 days ago,
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Ben Turner has nicely written up the state of Web Workers that we will see in Firefox 3.1 (in beta 2 right now).
To show the latest, Ben got a demo working that decrypts Weave data in the client using a Worker:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
// Launch the main worker.
if (!worker) {
[...]
7.6
AddressChooser: address picker in real-time
From Ajaxian, 2 days ago,
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Sébastein Gruhier has released a new address component that integrated a map with the address that you are filling. The UX is interesting as when you first get typing it doesn’t really narrow down the address so you are seeing maps of bizarre places.
As well as a basic version, you can also tie in auto [...]
5.5
Technical Details Behind iWork.com
From Ajaxian, 2 days ago,
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As soon as I heard about the new iWork.com site launched yesterday, I knew I wanted to know more about how it was made. iWork.com is a web-based way to share and collaborate over your iWork documents. I searched around the blogosphere seeing if anyone knew any technical details, but didn't find anything, so I [...]
9.4
Detecting twitter users with JavaScript - handy or evil?
From Ajaxian, 2 days ago,
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Earlier this week I blogged about a proof of concept that you can detect if a user is logged in to twitter and display their data with a few lines of JavaScript. This could be used to show for example "tweet this" buttons in a blog application.
The trick is easy: use the user_timeline to [...]
Tuesday January 6th, 2009
5.5
SendMeHome with GWT
From Ajaxian, 3 days ago,
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SendMeHome lets you to assign a unique code, called a SendMeHome ID, to any physical item. We are launching our newest feature, Stories, which connects a group of people through an item as it travels the globe. Social networks such as Facebook mainly involve users communicating with their ‘friends’, SendMeHome is unique because it uses [...]
5.6
QEvent: Small, Portable Event Library
From Ajaxian, 3 days ago,
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Daniel Steigerwald told us about his labor of love: QEvent, a "powerful tiny extensible standalone event library". He provides this laundry-list of features:
* lightweight footprint
* no namespace pollution - everything is wrapped in obj.$QEvent
* normalizes the DOM event model
* [...]