Recent AJAX

• Increasing drag/drop performance with iframes, images, and forms

  If you’re using YUI, Prototype, or MooTools and you’re building an application that involves draggable components containing iframes, images, and/or forms, here’s a quick tip to maximize performance during the onDrag event.
  Here is a code snippet of basic markup that’ll represent our draggable component.

  <div class="moduleContainer"> <div class="moduleHead">Draggable Title</div> <div class="moduleBody">Draggable Content</div> </div>

  Inside your moduleBody, you could have a plethora of component types, but [...]

  March 29th, 2008

• New YUI Version 2.3.0

  I always incorporate YUI Library because its excellent documentation, blazingly fast performance, and lightweight size. Just recently, Yahoo! released a new version of YUI. Below are the new additions to the library.

  Rich Text Editor
  Base CSS
  YUI Loader
  Image Loader
  Colour Picker
  Testing Suite

  I’m really excited about the Rich Text Editor and the Image Loader–I’m anxious to start coding now!
  On [...]

  August 1st, 2007

• AJAX Games — Bringing back the Old School

  I recently saw a cool Brickles AJAX game made with Prototype.js. The website goes into detail about how to create the game–showing how to develop the classes/objects and explaining how the user interacts with the game.
  Do you remember playing classic games, such as, Pac-man, Brickles, Hangman, and Carmen Sandiego in black and white? Do you [...]

  July 31st, 2007

• Archaic Search is Unproductive

  Are you used to typing in keywords and hitting the enter key? You’re probably
  used to it because of Google Search–but have you ever wondered how you could
  increase your productivity and user-experience in searching?
  Let’s look at iTunes as an example for a really well-done search function.

  “Search as you type” is great because it eliminates the need [...]

  July 28th, 2007

• Mac OS X Safari > Windows Safari on insertBefore

  While testing out XWNED Dashboard on Windows Safari, I realized that using
  onDrag events and insertBefore() javascript function performs horribly.
  It’s not just my implementation either–I tested out iGoogle, Pageflakes,
  as well as, Netvibes. Same behaviour. Very interesting.

  June 30th, 2007