Thomas Fuchs is the pioneer of the first FX JavaScript library script.aculo.us and as he and his work reside in Vienna (which is more or less my hometown) I have to support his new open source product called scripty2 which is a successor of script.aculo.us. To keep things short: It’s a first release and therefore […]
Did you ever wanted to build a context menu like google does it? I have figured out an easy and quick way to achieve this with a small amount of CSS and 3 lines of javascript. Click here for a demo
wow, google recently released an API for their translation services called Google language API. Thats a good news but it even gets better! The api is really easy to use and applications can be boosted within minutes. The reference can be found here Here is a quick example of how to translate something… javascript < […]
Today i have found scripteka.com which is an awesome resource for prototype and scriptaculous extensions. It offers one of the best extensions around on a very clear and web2ish site. Currently they offer 88 extensions which include javascript calendars, password strength meters, reflection generators, image croppers, faders, …. Go to scripteka.com and look yourself what […]
Today i stumbled across a nice tool called Pastie. Pastie helps you if you want to show some bits of your source code to someone else. e.g. you need some help, advice (or you just want to show off with your code). You paste an excerpt of your code and pastie saves it for under […]
My last post (about an ASP RSS component) included a demonstration which made use of a cool ajax technique simply called “ajaxed”. See the demonstration here again. If you play around you will recognize that there is no conventional postback and AJAX is up in here I have developed a small “library” which easily allows […]
A very nice balloon tooltip from BeauScott.com is another gift of the web 2.0 era. Look at the stylish appearance and enjoy…
Today i stumbled across something really funny which is called “lazy star” and is used as a term within regular expressions. I did work on an expression and could not get it to work till i found the lazy “guy” which was the solution for the problem.
When working with JSON it’s nice to have a generator for your language which transforms all the datatypes from your chosen programming language into the JSON grammar so that you can use them within javascript. For a lot of popular languages it’s done already (i suppose) but I haven’t found one for classic ASP .. […]
In conventional business applications users are used to navigate through form fields just by using the “enter” key rather than using the “tab” key. Especially on forms where they bung in a lot of numeric data (e.g. sales) it’s more common to use the numeric block (numlock) and therefore the “enter” key is more convenient to use […]