Archive for October, 2006

FireFox 2.0 Released (FF2.0)

While FireFox 2.0 hasn’t officially been released (I believe the official release date is tomorrow), you can obtain the final release version from Open Source Lab’s download site.

If you’re not “in the know” about what FF2.0 is bringing to the web-browser world, you’ll probably want to visit the official FireFox 2.0 Release Notes page to get full details.
The major enhancement (in my humble opinion) to FF2.0 is JavaScript 1.7. This new version of javascript introduces generators, iterators, let expressions and destructuring assignments, as well as client-side sessions. While it will probably be a while before you can actually use all of this (due to competing browser support) it’s still a major step for JavaScript.

Download your copy of FF2.0

Yet Another AutoComplete widget

I’ve never really liked the floating-DIV approach to existing AutoCompleters (like Google Suggest). I figure: why break the UI? So in my approach I use a regular HTML SELECT object to serve the options. Again, this widget is based on the prototype.js library. And, again, the API is very simple and flexible.
Click here to see the example.

Click here to download this widget.
Update: I’ve made a few updates to the script to better handle all keyboard and mouse interactions. I’ve tested it on PC Mozilla (FF), IE and Opera — I’d love some feedback from the Mac community.

Update #2: I’ve enabled optional Scriptaculous effects. Simply include the scriptaculous library somewhere in your HTML and this widget will use the blinding effects.

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