Links tagged with “Javascript”
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Ajax Upload
This looks like a nice alternative to Flash-based uploaders like Uploadify:
This plugin uses XHR for uploading multiple files with progress-bar in FF3.6+, Safari4+, Chrome and falls back to hidden iframe based upload in other browsers, providing good user experience everywhere.
Lazy Loading Asynchronous Javascript
A great summary of how to build a non-blocking JS widget.
Flot
A jQuery library for easy graphs using the <canvas> tag. It even works in IE6!
jQuery Evented Programming Primer
Excellent post by John Nunemaker on how he’s using the observer pattern to clean up his Javascript.
Visual Event
This is an amazing bookmarklet, that highlights all of the events associated with different elements on the page. I’m definitely going to be using this all the time, now that I found it.
Smurf, a JS and CSS minifier for Rails
I came across Smurf today while looking for a way to compress my Javascript and CSS files, and it’s really a clever little plugin. Just install the plugin to your Rails project and add :cache => true or :cache => 'name' to your javascript_include_tag and stylesheet_include_tag calls, and it automatically compresses your files for you. This, combined with mod_deflate, helps to keep load times down, ensuring a better experience for your users.
Improve Your jQuery - 25 Excellent Tips
Some really great tips about improving the performance of your jQuery code, as well as some nice tips to be a more efficient coder.
Red/Redshift Demo App
A 30-minute video of Red/Redshift, a “compiler” for Ruby to Javascript. Essentially, you write all of your AJAX, etc. in Ruby, and Red converts it to Javascript to you. I’m not sure how I feel about the extra step, but it’s definitely an intriguing idea, since it’s much nicer to write Ruby than JS.
jParallax
A jQuery plugin that “turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport.” As you move your mouse, the layers move, depending on how “far away” the object is. Check out the demo, it’s pretty amazing stuff.
Blogoscoped's Rundown of Google Chrome Features
A nice explanation of some of the major features that Google Chrome will have. I’m particularly interested in the new Javascript engine, V8: Javascript issues are the #1 reason why Firefox crashes or locks up for me, so the idea of a multi-process system sounds intriguing.