Tag: javascript

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  • Create a Timeline in JavaScript with SIMILE

    Posted on June 25, 2008 at 19:41 +0200 Tagged with , ,

    From time to time you get to a point, where you want to present information in a way that makes it easy to see and understand their temporal relationship. For these occasions, timelines are a pretty neat tool, yet how do you do something like this within a website in a way that keeps the whole thing interactive?

    Besides the usual suspects (the 1000th Flash/Flex implementation), there are also some JavaScript based solutions, that get the job done quite well. For a project that is part of my master thesis right now, we were looking for a simple timeline tool that could easily be embedded and extended to our needs and found the SIMILE Project of the MIT. Part of this project is also a timeline implementation in JavaScript that is remarkably flexible.

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  • Packing JavaScript with Django

    Posted on Jan. 17, 2008 at 22:23 +0100 Tagged with ,

    Since I started messing around with JavaScript a little more for work and also finally used this opportunity for getting some knowledge when it comes to YUI, I was about to look into ways to efficiently deploy separated JavaScript files (or at least I planned to get into this topic this weekend). I guess for Django, there is now - thanks to Pedro Vale Lima - a really nice management command that makes packaging and compressing multiple JavaScripts easy.

    Naturally you could also write an external script using one of the many packers that are already out there, but with the integration right into Django it's just much cleaner :-)

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  • JQuery 1.2

    Posted on Sept. 11, 2007 at 22:26 +0200 Tagged with ,

    Today seems to be a good day for releasing new software. At least that's what Sony and John Resig might have thought when they woke up today :-) And this is a quite special update for the popular JQuery JavaScript library.

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  • Accesskeys on PennyArcade

    Posted on Dec. 30, 2006 at 18:20 +0100 Tagged with , , ,

    Yet another probably for most people out there quite useless Greasemonkey script. It simply adds "n" as accesskey to navigate to the next comic strip and "b" to navigate to the previous comic strip on Penny Arcade as soon as you're viewing a strip.

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  • jQuery 1.0.2 released

    Posted on Oct. 10, 2006 at 11:01 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    John Resig just released a new version of his JavaScript library/framework jQuery. This release (version 1.0.2) seems to be focused on cross-browser related problems.

    jQuery is a light-weight JavaScript library which is in many parts similiar to the heavyweighters such as Prototype and aims to help developers with tasks such as dynamic style-changes, AJAX etc. In the recent months jQuery seems to have gained a lot of popularity in the Drupal world and is planned to be included in the next release of the CMS (5.0.0)

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  • Now work in IE

    Posted on Aug. 6, 2006 at 12:03 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    As you might or might not have noticed, the site should now look way better (apart from the top menu) and also the dropdown menus in the sidebar should now finally work. Sorry for that, but I hadn't noticed that problem until yesterday.

    What was the problem with the sidebar? Quite simple. I build the dropdown menus using DOM. There I had something like this to set the onchange eventhandler: 

    selectbox.setAttribute("onChange","redirect(this.value)");

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  • S5 is no longer a one-man show

    Posted on July 23, 2006 at 15:41 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    Eric Meyer's web standards based presentation system S5 seems to be about to move out into its own project home with s5project.org, set up by Ryan King. The aim seems to be to offer all S5 users a community platform for sharing information and customizations.

    And for those of you that don't know S5 yet, think about it as PowerPoint in your web browser using XHTML, JavaScript and CSS.

    For more details about what is going on with S5 and what is planed for the near future, check out the announcement by Ryan King :)

    Hmm.... that somehow reminds me that I was actually working on an "Alternatives to PowerPoint" article when I wrote a paper a month or so ago ...

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  • Debugging JavaScript with Firebug

    Posted on May 15, 2006 at 20:42 +0200 Tagged with , , , , ,

    Seems like Firebug is more any more becoming one of the most powerful webdevelopment extensions for Firefox. Justin Palmer wrote an in-depth report about some of the new features Firebug will have in it's next release. According to this article there will be breakpoints, logging, tracing etc. facilities to make debugging JavaScripts much easier. Finally now alerts anymore ;)

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  • js_include

    Posted on May 9, 2006 at 17:15 +0200 Tagged with , , ,

    J Wynia has written a nice little include function for JavaScript basically embedding the included-script nicely into the head element of the displaying HTML page. So all you have to do is puts something like js_include('path/to/file.js'); into one of your already "installed" JavaScript files. Definitely much nicer than dothing something

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