Tag Archives: javascript
Using the Google Closure Compiler in Java
I recently had a chance to try out Google's closure compiler. The closure compiler is similar to the YUI compressor except that along with minimizing it may rewrite the JavaScript. If you want to understand more about what it does start at the overview documentation and then go from there. What I needed was a [...]
Using Modernizr – Simple Guide and Examples
Modernizr is a Javascript library that detects the presence of browser functionality. This makes life a lot easier when using more modern features on your website by encapsulating all the feature tests into a library you don't have to worry about. You can use Modernizr either in your own Javascript or you can use the [...]
Good article on keeping javascript maintainable
Vitamin has a good article today on the importance of maintainable javascript. 95% of what the article covers is applicable to any code. The important parts of the article cover javascript specific things like: object literals, namespaces and where to go when you want to compress your javascript to save bandwidth/make it download faster. They [...]
Easier scrolling images with Yahoo UI
This is a great article about the yahoo ui tools. I mention it mainly because they have a nice scrolling widget a lot like what I put together as an example of the things you can do with script.aculo.us (see Smooth Scrolling Image List). A link to the demo: Sliding demo The entire article: 15 [...]
Some interesting and useful AJAX/Javascript code
I like seeing more and more uses of prototype. I'm not sure if the big guys will win out with their UI toolkits (Yahoo UI/GWT) or if it will always feel better to put things together by hand. Either way it is good to understand how this stuff works. This is an edit in place [...]
AJAX file upload progress for Java using commons fileupload and prototype
This has been done before with PHP (AJAX upload progress meter for PHP) etc but I needed something a little different because I wanted to upload a file and then have it loaded into a database. I looked around and found that someone had already made something that used the commons file upload package to [...]
Smooth scrolling image list
I had someone ask me about fitting more images in a small area and the way flickr does their image scrolling came to mind. I wanted to see how hard it was to do and as it turns out it isn't hard to do at all thanks to script.aculo.us. I'm making this as simple as [...]
No javascript detection
Have you ever wondered what you can do if someone doesn't have javascript turned on and it is needed on the page they are sitting at? Well here is the answer: If the user doesn't have javascript turned on they will be redirected to the page nojscript.html. It doesn't work as well as having a [...]
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