Archive for the 'Javascript' Category

Yet another grievous error on IE’s part (updated: float problem)

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

AJAX can be really useful sometimes. We all agree on that. We’ve pretty much solved the cross-browser divide when it comes to the XHR object by using libraries, but one thing still remains - what about the GUI? I know this might seem like just another post about using AJAX and fancy GUI updates, but let […]

RobotReplay, a usability testing tool

Saturday, July 14th, 2007

If you’ve ever asked yourself just why your web site or web app doesn’t perform as well as you’ve thought it would, since you’ve given a lot thought into the design of the page and user interface, then you might ask yourself - are you the proper person to be judging the design? In comes usability […]

Followup: Creating rich GUIs with Javascript in Symfony

Wednesday, June 13th, 2007

Well, I’ve written up a short summary of ideas relating to handling Javascript files in relation to requests, not it’s time to evaluate them. First thing I’ve noticed with the different ways of injecting Javascript into the response is the order by which the files are loaded, the problem being dependency. If you’re using a library […]

Using jQuery to manipulate a foreign DOM

Sunday, May 20th, 2007

This is somewhat of an old topic, but digging through a myriad of ways of including jQuery into a website that doesn’t use it (eg. Wordpress having Prototype and such), I stumbled upon a bookmarklet written by John Resig that loads jQuery into the current DOM and enables you to run an onload function that […]

Implementing rich GUIs in Symfony

Friday, March 30th, 2007

When it comes to rich graphical interfaces, we’re currently being swarmed by all these big and small players readily available on the net - there’s Script.aculo.us, YahooUI, Yui-Ext, Moofx, to name a few of the most prominent. All’s fine and dandy until you try coding some of the stuff inside views of actions.

Getting jiggy with the Yahoo! UI library

Saturday, February 10th, 2007

I know I’ve been away a while, but I’ve been knee deep in preparing for our upcoming show and finishing up on some projects at work and at home. More relevantly (is that even an adjective?), I’ve been implementing the Yahoo! UI JS/CSS libraries, augmented with Jack Slocum’s excellent Yui-Ext. It provides incredible flexibility and code […]