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In the “oh wow, I didn’t know JavaScript could do that” category, I just came across a cool new jQuery plugin called jParallax which implements a parallax effect on selected elements. Now, I’m not ashamed to admit not knowing what “parallax” meant so I looked it up on Wikipedia which totally added closure to the [...]

Last week I wrote a simple WhereAreYou? application that used the Google Ajax APIs ClientLocation API to access your location via your IP address. At the same time, we announced support for the Gears Geolocation API that can calculate your address using a GPS device, WiFi info, cell tower ids, and IP address lookups. Add to all [...]

John has announced the Firebug 1.2 final release. As well as just supporting Firefox 3, there are some quality improvements: The Script panel (the JavaScript debugger), the Net panel (network monitoring), and Console panel have all seen considerable updates. They’re all much more performant and have a huge number of bug fixes. Specifically the Console panel has [...]

Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team looks like they are having a lot of fun. They have been putting up proposals for new UIs and the latest involves a smarter new tab screen. Aza discusses how opening a blank screen doesn’t really help you. Opera already allows you to have a quick dial screen show [...]

That?s right, a free pass! We are raffling off one free pass to The Ajax Experience show in Boston, September 29 ? October 1. That means that you can attend the $1495 event for free, courtesy of Ajaxian.com. There?s no catch. We are giving away one free pass to The Ajax Experience. The free pass only [...]

Razor Profiler is a web-based Ajax profiling tool to help web developers understand and analyze the runtime behavior of their JavaScript code in a cross-browser environment. Razor Profiler can be access either online as a service; or be downloaded to run locally, and was created by Coach Wei who has done a lot of work [...]

Dave Kuhn has put together a comprehensive guide to piecing together GWT and Spring, a nice recipe for the Java heads among you. Dave starts out by detailing why you would want to do this, and how it changes the architecture of your application. He then gets to a tutorial that has you creating the project correctly, [...]

Jacob Seidelin finishes up his binary meme with a post on reading image metadata with JavaScript via a library that groks EXIF data. It tries to detect the format of the image file and then reads the header and pulls out information about dimensions and color depth among other things. If the EXIF data library is [...]

John Resig is working on a new selector engine called Sizzle: This is a new selector engine that I'm working on. It's a work in progress! Not ready for use yet! It's definitely not ready yet (got some minor outlier bugs in the standards-compliant browsers - and a bunch of major bugs in IE still left to tackle) [...]

For years, many of us have been salivating over the idea of JIT'ed JavaScript in the browser. Adobe's JIT'ing Flash VM showed a preview of tremendous speed gains to be had, but we've had to wait until SquirrelFish from WebKit to see anything dramatic happen in the browser. Until now. Mozilla just let the cat out of [...]