Cameron Olthuis has posted a list of what he thinks are the top 10 most useful developer libraries. These should be in any web developers bookmarks, so go ahead and look through these libraries and bookmark your favorite ones. The list is in no particular order.
Mike Smullin has released a new version of his AJAX Comments plug-in for Wordpress:
Features:
comment form validation happens server-side without refreshing or leaving the page
Script.aculo.us Fade In/Out Effects make readers happy
works with AuthImage captcha word verification plug-in to prevent comment spam
still works traditionally if browsers don’t support JavaScript (or have it disabled)
uses existing [...]
IBM has posted part two of their tutorial for developing PHP for AJAX.
“A major challenge of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-driven Web sites is the lack of a Back button. We will use JavaScript to create a history stack for the Ajax photo gallery built in Part 1 of this two-part “Developing [...]
So we set out to build a quick and easy feedback mechanism. A little floater/popup that lets you quickly rate a page. All AJAX driven of course.
Nicely packaged (it requires minimal HTML editing, and can be fully manipulated through CSS) I give you: AJAX Feedback Mechanism.
GetANewBrowser as the scoop on implementing google’s lastest AJAX toy, its svelte new search box.
“As a member of the Google AJAX Search API Google Group I have seen multiple requests for a tutorial for non-developers who want to implement this on their site or blog. So, here goes.”
This is a handy reference for all the various getElementsBy*() JavaScript functions that are out there, from the DOM standard getElementById to the very advanced getElementsBySelector functions.
“I’ve put this together because it’s near impossible to write any useful scripts that use the DOM without these functions, and its nice to know the different methods available.”
I [...]
AJAX Calendar is a plugin that will display an AJAXified WordPress calendar. This enhances the functionality of the standard calendar by:
Allowing the asynchronous navigation of months, without updating the page
Adding a drop-down list of post titles in each month (through the «-» button)
Adding full caching support to reduce server load
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don’t speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today is a tedious and error-prone process; you spend 90% of your time working around subtle incompatabilities between web [...]
A small piece of javascript reads al SPAN tags, checks if it has class=”editText” and a id=. If that is true, it adds a onclick function. That onclick function will create a textfield or input (depending on the size of the editable text). Someone has the ability to edit the field. When the text field [...]
This is the third and final installment of A Designer’s Guide to Prototyping Ajax. In this installment Particletree shows us how to apply an event to an element and to target a specific element by its ID.
