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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
Crossfading with CSS - a nice effect based on Scriptaculous (see the demo).
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.
I wish I had found this JavaScript Image Cropper UI (using Prototype and Scriptaculous) before we added another one to a project.
Thomas Fuchs announced the redesign of the script.aculo.us website. Now the site shows some of the magic it offers.
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
