AJAX News Feeds
Asynchronous JavaScript And XML News
It?s Friday. Play some drums?. HTML5 style
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Brian Arnold created a fun sample drum machine simulator using HTML5 <audio>.
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
function playBeat() {
if (isPlaying) {
var nextBeat = 60000 / curTempo / 4;
// Turn off all lights on the tracker's row
[...]
10 Impressive JavaScript Animation Frameworks
From digg.com: Stories / Programming / Popular
In this article, you will read about the top 10 JavaScript-based animation frameworks and libraries that will enable you to create engaging and captivating user experiences.
Machsend: P2P file sharing via Browser Plus
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser.
It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality.
I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)
A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax
From digg.com: Stories / Programming / Popular
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that promotes rapid development. Clients? demands are ever increasing yet they still expect the same quality of output. In the first part of this three part series, we cover setting up a simple message model, which will hold the messages posted. Further to this, we will learn how to post a message asynch
GChart 2.5: Faster, sharper, canvas-rendered, pie, line, and area charts
From Ajaxian » Front Page
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.
John told us:
Canvas-rendering corrects GChart's most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice).
Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]
How To Create Your Own Stats Program (JavaScript, AJAX, PHP)
From digg.com: Stories / Programming / Popular
Webmasters use certain programs, such as Google Analytics or Awstats, to complete this job for them. These programs obtain a wide variety of information about visitors to a site. They find page views, visits, unique visitors, browsers, IP addresses, and much more.
More than you ever want to see about encoding
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings.
Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way.... as he talked about
en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]
How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
From digg.com: Stories / Programming / Popular
AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.
GeoMaker - geo locations as microformats or a map from texts or URLs
From Ajaxian » Front Page
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]
Modernizr: HTML5 and CSS3 detection
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr
Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
A whole lot of testing for JavaScript implementations
From Ajaxian » Front Page
A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day.
First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests.... 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5.
All of the tests are released under New BSD.
Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]
Firefox 3.5: The fastest fox has landed
From Ajaxian » Front Page
It is great to feel the good vibes at Mozilla HQ today as we launch Firefox 3.5! It is always an interesting ride to see a browser develop, and realize how complex and large the work is.
Congrats to the browser developers out there who are working hard to make the Web better. With final [...]
LABjs: Simple abstraction for loading dependencies correctly
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Kyle Simpson has developed LABjs, a library that lets you define your JavaScript file dependencies, and then loads them as efficiently as possible.
Kyle told us:
This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the [...]
New Sessions at The Ajax Experience 2009
From Ajaxian » Front Page
Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here's one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA.
It's only been two weeks since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with [...]