AJAX Asyncronous Javascript and XML
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a new approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, the Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When... [more]
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a new approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, the Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When these technologies are combined in the Ajax model, internet applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page.
John Resig continues his streak of compelling blog entries with "DOM DocumentFragments" where he shows that:
A method that is largely ignored in modern web development can provide some serious (2-3x) performance improvements to your DOM manipulation.
The technique shown is compatible across a...
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I work on Google Code. Hearing that Radiohead was going to release data with progressive licensing and wanted to do so on Google Code was awesome.
Now we see how cool it is that the data is open. People like Jacob Seidelin are doing interesting things with it.
In this case, Jacob has created...
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With a young son, I often listen to the “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” song by Jack Johnson for the Curious George movie. Edgar Hassler has taken that axiom and applied it to code.
Edgar goes into a lot of detail, including the following issue that he ran into:
The problem I kept having was that I...
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- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (3news.co.nz)
- Reduce, reuse, recycle and retain (news.google.com)
If you have an interest in Adobe AIR, Mike Chambers has 100 free copies of the Adobe AIR for JavaScript Developers Pocketguide, and one of them could have your name on it.
All you have to do is email him at mesh@adobe.com with your name, shipping address, and phone number if you are outside of...
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Mathieu Henri saw Scott Schiller’s generated favicons VU meter and wanted to “push the concept of generated favicons further and pack a thrilling retro shooter in 16×16 pixels using JavaScript, canvas and data: URIs.”
Wow. He went and did it. The entire game runs in the favicon!
DEFENDER of the...
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PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
Class.create = (function(original) {
var fn = function() {
var result = original.apply(null, arguments);
result.toString = function() { return result.prototype.initialize.toString() };
return result;
};
fn.toString = function(){ return...
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Jeffrey Barke has written up a tutorial detailing how to create a density map with Prototype, the Google Maps API and the HeatMapAPI.
The heat map API looks cool indeed, and that piece of code looks simple:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
addHeatMap: function() {
var heatMap = new GEOHeatmap...
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The 32-year-old Montreal computer services giant CGI Group Inc. doesn't often make stock market waves, but yesterday its share-price held onto almost all of ...
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Fellow Yahoo Matt Hackett took a leaf out of Jacob Seidelin’s book and started converting old school arcade games to JavaScript. Instead of using Canvas his only “non JavaScript” solution is playing the music with Scott Schiller’s Sound Manager (which, as we know, uses Flash under the hood).
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Wouldn't it be nice if we actually had a decent component model? Instead of making JavaScript frameworks have to mess around and try to create one on top of the crud they have to deal with?
This is what XBL 2.0 is all about. I talked about XBL in one of my Web Archeology posts, and how Jonas...
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