Entries Tagged as 'DHTML'
Announcing Bitjuice: Ajax Bitmap API
May 27th, 2007 · 6 Comments · Links, SoftwareDev
Tags: Bitjuice·DHTML·Graphics·Javascript·Links
Ajax Diagnosis And Testing Patterns – Podcast
October 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
Welcome to Ye Olde Ajax Patterns Podcaste, the final in this series that began twelve months ago. 3+4+4+1 = 12 podcasts in all, covering 71 patterns (the 70 patterns in the the book as well as Dyanmic Favicons). Find them all on the podcast category – http://www.softwareas.com/category/podcast/ or subscribe to the podcast feed at http://www.softwareas.com/podcast/rss2. Thanks [...]
Tags: Agile·AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Firebug·Firefox·IE·Javascript·Links·TDD·Venkman·Web·Web 2.0
Ajax/Javascript: 8 Ways to Create Graphics on the Fly
October 1st, 2006 · 31 Comments · Links, SoftwareDev
Ajax/Javascript: 8 Ways to Create Graphics on the Fly - digg this
The ability to create rich graphics on the fly is one of the critical gaps in Ajax. There are indeed techniques to do it, albeit far from perfect, and some are do-able today if you take a pragmatic view of things and keep graceful [...]
Tags: Canvas·DHTML·Images·Javascript·Links·SVG·Web·Web2.0·XBM
Lessons in Javascript Performance Optimisation: 90 seconds down to 3 seconds
September 26th, 2006 · 10 Comments · Links, SoftwareDev
Summary: Avoid $$(".classname") on large DOMs!!!
I've recently been optimising the guts out of a JS webapp I wrote, which was making IE crawl to a halt. I discovered this after introducing a stress-inducing data set. (Using Rails' fixtures makes light work of this; since the fixtures are Ruby templates just like the web templates, it's [...]
Tags: DHTML·ERb·Javascript·Links·Optimisation·Optimization·Performance·Rails·Tuning
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 4 of 4: Functionality Patterns
September 23rd, 2006 · 2 Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
This is the fourth and final podcast in the series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). This 54-minute podcast covers seven patterns of Ajax Architecture (Book: Chapter 17, pp 473-530):
Lazy Registration Direct Login Host-Proof Hosting Timeout Heartbeat Unique URLs Dynamic Favicons
Dedicated to the Nitobians, whose last podcast inspired me to crank another one out again. Recent events [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Encryption·Javascript·Links·Security·Web·Web2.0
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 3 of 4: Visual Effects
July 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
This is the third in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). An audio discussion of visual effects is ideally short and sweet, so this podcast is but 13 minutes long.
This 13-minute podcast covers ten patterns of Ajax Architecture (Book: Chapter 16, pp 445-472):
One-Second Spotlight One-Second Mutation One-Second Motion Highlight
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Drag-And-Drop·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Portlet·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0·Widgets
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 2 of 4: Ajax Page Architecture
July 25th, 2006 · 2 Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
This is the second in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530).
The guest for this week is Dave Johnson of Nitobi (the Ajax component developers formerly known as E-Business Applications), widget guru and author of the upcoming Enterprise Ajax book. Dave helps me walk through the patterns and [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Drag-And-Drop·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Portlet·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web2.0·Widgets
Ajax Functionality and Usability Patterns – Podcast 1 of 4: Widgets of the Web
July 15th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast
And so, a new series begins, based on the Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530). We've already looked at the technical details, now we're looking at what Ajax can do for users and how to implement these features.
I'm asking guests to join me for most of the remaining Ajax Pattern podcasts. [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Data Grid·DHTML·Javascript·Links·Podcast·Progress Indicator·Rich Text Editor·Search·Slider·Software·Suggestion·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0·Widgets
Ajax Programming Patterns – Podcast 4 of 4: Performance Optimisation Patterns
July 8th, 2006 · No Comments · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
The fourth and final podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. As always, the patterns are online at AjaxPatterns.org and covered in the book too, now available at Amazon. This 33-minute podcast covers seven patterns of Performance Optimisation:
Browser-Side Cache Maintain a local cache of information. Guesstimate Instead of grabbing real data from the [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·DHTML·Javascript·Links·Optimisation·Optimization·Performance·Podcast·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web 2.0
Ajax Programming Patterns – Podcast 3 of 4: “DOM Population” and “Code Generation and Reuse” Patterns
June 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Links, Podcast, SoftwareDev
The third podcast in this series of Ajax Programming Patterns. The 29-minute podcast covers five patterns. As with the previous podcast, there is reason for concern about the audio quality herein. Firstly, three patterns on DOM population - taking server response data and displaying it or storing it in the DOM:
XML Data Island Retain [...]
Tags: AjaxPatterns·Cross-Browser·Data Island·DHTML·DOM·Javascript·Links·Maintainable·Podcast·Portable·Software·Tutorial·Web·Web2.0·XML·XSLT
