Another web desktop January 22, 2006
Posted by elcukro in framework, Javascript, PHP.3 comments
Pageflakes makes another aim at a thing called ‘web desktop’ – a place to gather your email, RSS feeds, latest news of your interest and other stuff. Two most notable examples of web desktops are Google Personalized Homepage and Microsoft Start.com.
Pageflakes like most of the Ajax Desktops, features RSS reading, email checking, note taking, searching, etc.
It also provides a developer API to allow third party module-creation. It’s still in very early developer release (pre-alpha), and that may be the reason why it only supports IE. Sheesh…
jQuery: new lightweight javascript library January 21, 2006
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John Resig, the man behind RSS to JSON and lots of other great Javascript projects, came up with a Javascript framework that’s light, fast and elegant as well.
jQuery is a Javascript library that takes this motto to heart: Writing Javascript code should be fun. jQuery acheives this goal by taking common, repetitive, tasks, stripping out all the unnecessary markup, and leaving them short, smart and understandable. A quick example:
$("p.surprise").addClass("ohmy").show("slow");
Quick Facts:
- jQuery supports CSS 1-3 and basic XPath.
- jQuery is about 10kb in size.
- jQuery works in Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, and Opera.
Dojo 0.2.2 released January 19, 2006
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The excellent Ajax framework/library dojo has just released version 0.2.2. Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time.
It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. Dojo lets you prototype interactive widgets quickly, animate transitions, and build Ajax requests with the most powerful and easiest to use abstractions available. These capabilities are built on top of a lightweight packaging system, so you never have to figure out which order to request script files in again. Dojo’s package system and optional build tools help you develop quickly and optimize transparently.
View the dojo timeline and list of changes.
Collaborative page highlighting: Wizlite January 17, 2006
Posted by elcukro in ajax, Collaboration, Javascript, tagging.1 comment so far
Alex Kirk, guy behing bookmarklet manager blummy, announced a new piece of software that came from his hand. It’s called Wizlite and basically it’s a web marker allowing you to mark parts of text that’s particularly of any interest to you.
It comes as either a bookmarklet of a firefox extension. When you set up the account at wizlite.com, you can then save your marked snippets for later, e.g. while doing a research on a certain subject. But wait – there’s more! What’s even cooler – by creating groups of folks you are able to share your findings. TADA! Collaborative it really is!
Regular Expression evaluation tool January 16, 2006
Posted by elcukro in ajax, Javascript, PHP, Regular expressions.1 comment so far
I just stumbled upon rexv.org, which looks like the swiss army knife of online reg ex tools. It is somewhat limited to PHP (PCRE and Posix) and Javascript RX implementations, but still these tend to be among most popular. You can set all the bits and pieces yourself using checkboxes to modify the nature of constructed rx – the options include greediness, case-sensitivity, new lines and unicode. (more…)
