RJS is a great little tool for interactively updating pieces of a page in response to some AJAX action, but it tends to fall short when you want to do anything beyond blinding dumping content into a page. Dan Webb has written a plugin called “MinusR” that basically flips RJS templates on their head. Instead […]
Entries Categorized as 'Javascript/AJAX'
RJS minus R
April 24, 2007
Prototype 1.5.1 and Scriptaculous 1.7.1 betas are out!
April 12, 2007
See the Prototype announcement and the Scriptaculous announcement for more info and changelogs.
In short, it’s a lot faster, memory leaks are fixed, and there are a number of new features including sound support (which I don’t think I’d use, but which is still cool). I tried it out tonight in my personal work, and the […]
Google gets into real estate
April 10, 2007
Simply type “San Francisco real estate” or “homes for rent in Manhattan” in the Google search box. Below the sponsored links on the search results page it will say something like “Find results for homes for sale in manhattan in Housing search.”
Click on that to get a beautiful Google map populated with listings.
It’s a slick […]
Update your Firebug, folks
April 6, 2007
Firebug is an amazingly-useful web development and debugging tool that no web developer should be without. There’s a great article over at Coding Horror about it, if you want to learn more about it.
If you are a user, though, please update to the latest version (1.0.4 at the time of this writing) as a nasty […]
The Ten Commandments of Web Design: Commandment Two
April 4, 2007
I’m back with another entry in my series on web design. If you missed it, here is part one.
Most every professional web site out there employees Javascript to some degree. With AJAX catching on as it is, Javascript is becoming more and more popular. Unfortunately, this means that more and more sites are breaking one […]
The Grandmother Test
April 3, 2007
In the past few months, I’ve been heavily studying web development “best practices”. Semantically-valid content, separation of content from presentation, RESTful design, and graceful degradation on in the absence of certain technologies - all of that, and more.
My buddy Jon and I have been working on a project on the side, and I’ve learned […]
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