Just finished my first Netvibes plugin. Hopefully it’ll be the first of many to come as I’ve now got the hang of the Universal Widget API (UWA) now. My first widget is mainly for UK users who take a lot of flights. Its a Lastminute.com flight checker widget so you can find the latest pricing [...]
Looking around for a decent Javascript gallery to use on ‘this site’ – I came across by far the most comprehensive and pleasant to use in: SmoothGallery2.0 It uses the MooTools library and has a slick interface. The only downside I’d say is that for large sets of images using a Gallery Set it can [...]
Lets skip the big comparisons here and get to brass tacks. Here’s the rapid review of Ajax frameworks: YUI -Stable and comprehensive but a little verbose. jQuery – Clean, fresh and perky but plenty of hacked, cruddy plugins to be wary of. Ext – Beautiful to look at but agonising to use. Prototype/Scriptaculous – Only [...]
I remember seeing Dojo for the first time and I was hooked on the flashy gizmo’s and widgets from the off. The awkward learning curve was cast aside as I went about reading and listening to everything I could lay my hands on. After a while of using Dojo on many of my work projects [...]
As mentioned in the previous post the way I refreshed a datatable widget after a change in the data was to reinstantiate the table. The way I did this was to simply make my widgets configuration and creation into a functin which I could then call at will whenever I needed it to take on [...]
When I first looked at YUI when I was on the hunt for a simple yet powerful Ajax library I cast it aside in favour of Dojo. Which back then I preffered due to its tag parsing as opposed to pure JS implementation of its various widgets. However, now I’m getting a bit more into [...]
I can’t take the credit for this one this time but its a huge improvement on the previous category filter I created using the Ajax Scaffold Generator earlier in the month. This one courtesy of a gentleman at ASG Google Groups who posted a filter with an auto complete search box and after giving it [...]
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