Entries Tagged as ‘(D)HTML’

March 13, 2007

IE Javascript event nightmare

I thought it would be nice to disable a forms submit button once it was pressed once to prevent impatient users from clicking again and again if the post might take longer as expected.
<input type=”submit” value=”Send” onclick=”this.disabled=true”/>
But as I noticed IE6 doesn’t like that. After disabling the submit it cancels the submit of the page [...]

March 1, 2007

Ajax & DHTML showroom

MinAjax is a great showroom for all the nice things you can add to a website.
My personal favorites are:

Prototype window
Bubble tooltips
Really Easy Field validation with Prototype
HighSlide JS

November 22, 2006

The “other” side of Scriptaculous

The JS library Scriptaculous is mainly know for its amazing effects and controls (e.g. AutoComplete, Drag&Drop, Sliders). However there is another side of it which is not as obvious. It contains a complete JS UnitTest framework which makes testing Javascript extremely easy and convenient.
Thomas Fuchs (creator of Scriptaculous) posted a presentation he gave about [...]

November 12, 2006

CSS/JS compression with PHP

When using Javascript and CSS extensively the sizes of these files are going to make a quite notable amount of a web site. Especially when using a JS framework it adds many KB to every file.
I stumbled across a solution for Javascript which also can - and has been used for CSS.
I tested the .htacces-solution [...]

October 11, 2006

More crossfading…

After writing about CSS crossfading recently, I now came across JonDesign’s Smooth SlideShow Library which is a ready to use SlideShow which uses nice effects to fade between images and display meta information.

September 22, 2006

CSS Crossfading

Crossfading with CSS - a nice effect based on Scriptaculous (see the demo).

September 6, 2006

Prototype Carousel Class

If you liked the post about YUI Carousel Component but prefer Prototype / Scriptaculous as your favourite javascript libraries then this is for you: Prototype Carousel Class.

August 30, 2006

JavaScript Image Cropper

I wish I had found this JavaScript Image Cropper UI (using Prototype and Scriptaculous) before we added another one to a project.

August 21, 2006

script.aculo.us redesign

Thomas Fuchs announced the redesign of the script.aculo.us website. Now the site shows some of the magic it offers.

August 4, 2006

FireBug - a web developer must-have

FireBug is one of the best Firefox extension I came across so far. It is the best companion for developing (and debugging) javascript.
Here are some links which demonstrates its features:

Debugging With Firebug
Screencast