Page Test: Run AOL’s tool in the cloud, then sit back and wait
Patrick Meenan has setup an IE7 instance in Virginia that we can poke to do an AOL Page Test.
You give it a URL and some options such as the number of runs, whether to see the first and repeat views, and off it runs.
When finished you get to see the results which give you high [...]
Ajax Head Pattern; Unobtrusive Rails Apps Ken Collins has rewritten his Homemarks application, a Rails app that "allows you to dynamically create and sort Columns, Boxes, and Bookmarks into your own custom start page."
What is interesting about the rewrite is the new approach that Ken took; the Ajax Head Pattern as he described it:
HomeMarks was built using the Ruby on Rails [...]
querySelectorAll is coming fast
We have all been talking about querySelectAll for awhile, but John Resig gives us a wrap-up that covers the state of play.
He talks about the browsers, and the libraries that wrap them and clean up shop via code like:
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JAVASCRIPT:
function querySelectorAll(selector){
try {
return Array.prototype.slice.call(
document.querySelectorAll( selector ) );
} catch(e){}
return [...]
Chain.js: jQuery Data Binding Service Rizqi Ahmad has created a data binding service for jQuery called Chain.js.
A simple example shows you where to start. When given HTML like:
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HTML:
<div id="quickdemo">
<div class="item"><span class="library">Library Name</span></div>
</div>
The following JavaScript will add data as items to the list:
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JAVASCRIPT:
$('#quickdemo')
.items([
{library:'Prototype'},
{library:'jQuery'},
{library:'Dojo'},
[...]
Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of it all. I listened to their concerns and came up with a framework for JavaScript applications called
ViewsHandler. [...]
The lessons of CSS frameworks Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.
Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, Blueprint, Content With Style, That Standards Guy, YAML, YUI, Elements, Tripoli, WYMStyle) and talks about choosing one...
Let’s get [...]
Running server side processes via JavaScript with Jaxer
Tom Kirkpatrick has written about a new API in Jaxer, Jaxer.Process, that allows you to call out to the host operating system. His example has a call out to get the uptime on the machine:
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JAVASCRIPT:
<script runat="server-proxy">
function runUptime() {
// run the uptime and return the output from STDOUT
return Jaxer.Process.exec("/usr/bin/uptime");
}
</script>
You [...]
WaveMaker 4: Point and Click Ajax WaveMaker Studio 4.0 the Ajax based visual development platform for creating web applications has been released. Version 4.0 includes a new look and feel, usability improvements, and a host of new features.
Building applications has been made easier by a syntax highlighting code editor, improved widget drag and drop, undo, simplified data binding, more flexible css [...]
Ra Ajax: Ajax for .NET Thomas Hansen is a vocal member of the community, and worked on Gaia Widgets in the past. Now he has moved on to create his own opensource library Ra Ajax, an Ajax library for .NET. (He has posted the bloody details of how he "left").
He is experimenting, and writing up a series of "how to [...]
Reading ID3 tags with JavaScript Jacob Seidelin is up to more tricks, this time playing with the binary side of life and writing a library that can reading ID3 tags from MP3 files and such.
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JAVASCRIPT:
// URL of the mp3 file (must be on the same domain!)
var file = "mymusicfile.mp3";
// define your own callback function
function mycallback() {
// either call the [...]
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