Happy New Year from all of us here at Yahoo. Here’s a digest of YUI-related news from the holiday season. As always, we invite you to let us know what we’ve missed by adding a comment below.
YUI Sightings — MojoPortal: mojoPortal’s author Joe Audette suggests that you “think of mojoPortal as a Starter [...]
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 [...]
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 * [...]
Nicholas Zakas decided to dive deep on everyone's favorite sign that you've done something wrong:
Few web developers truly understand what triggers the long-running script dialog in various browsers, including myself. So I decided to sit down and figure out under what circumstances you’ll see this dialog. There are basically two different ways of determining that [...]
Following-up from our previous posting, we've got some more Ajax Experience videos. This post's theme is JavaScript and JSON: Advanced Animation & Physics in JavaScript with Paul Bakaus Forget about Web standards and go way beyond the usual capabilities of Web scripting languages. Learn how to create stunning effects using canvas/svg/vml, how to control animated graphics in [...]
There is a Santa Claus.
There isn't a Santa Claus.
The deal about Santa? The same goes for his elves, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, God, and the Halloween Ghosts and Goblins.
We’re getting ever-closer to the final release of jQuery 1.3! In a follow-up to the recent 1.3 Beta 1 we have another test version for everyone to try. As with before, it’s not ready for production use yet but we definitely need help in hunting down any bugs that we may have missed. Please don’t test [...]
Hello Ajaxians! We’re inviting all of the Java developers out there to an event organized by our sister site, TheServerSide.com, the Web’s largest enterprise Java community. As a member of Ajaxian, you save an extra $100 off the registration fee with the code AJAXIAN. (Register before January 16 to save a total of $400 and get [...]
One of the biggest under-the-radar movements in JavaScript development during 2008 was the reemergence of an interest in unit testing. YUI Test, YUI’s unit testing framework, reached GA status in February and other libraries either introduced their own unit testing frameworks or started [...]
Over in SproutCore land, they have been talking about Peter Bergstrom and his amazing work with Canvas and SVG:
Peter Bergstrom has been doing some amazing work with SVG and canvas tags in his SproutCore-based these project called PaperCube. PaperCube visualizes citations their relationships between authors. Watching the videos of his project, you’d swear he was [...]
Jacob Seidelin has a really nice 2008 roundup of awesome JavaScript-yness that focuses a little on his own area of expertise (canvas whiz and all):
2008 has been just great, not least because of all the great stuff people have been doing with JavaScript, the new canvas element and the web in general. Browser vendors are [...]
Alvaro Videla has a fun post on extending the WebKit Web Inspector with something a little strange.... a game: Alvaro walks through how to take some JavaScript/CSS/HTML and plug it into the inspector world (normally hidden somewhere like /Applications/WebKit.app/Contents/Frameworks/10.5/WebCore.framework/Versions/A/Resources/inspector) and adding panels (e.g. see the new game panel here:) PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:
this.panels = {
[...]
Robert Tomsick has been playing with Sandboxed Safari, a project that aims to let you use the Leopard sandbox feature with the browser, via a little launcher:
When Leopard was released, one of its big selling points was its "sandbox" feature. This garnered a fair bit of attention, as sandboxing is a fairly new feature for [...]