If you are using Selenium to test your web application and you are having some AJAX in it, you may know that the waitForCondition assertion is your friend.
According to the Selenium documentation it:
Runs the specified JavaScript snippet repeatedly until it evaluates to “true”.
With this you can define your own condition which defines the end of [...]
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 [...]
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.
Another great extension built on top of Prototype and Scriptaculous: Javascript Popup Windows
Jonathan Snook has some great cheat sheets of the Prototype library.
I would love to see the same for script.aculo.us. *hint*
