Category Archives: Development

Tips and tricks with real-world applications

Prototype.js 1.5.0_rc2 Documentation Now Up!

Sergio Pereira has updated his documentation site of Prototype.js to include the latest build (1.5.0_rc2). I also stumbled across a png cheat sheet for Prototype.js by Johnathan Snooka. Great job, guys!

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Best-Practice Guidelines for AJAX Applications and Search Engines

David Wallace @ SearchEngineWatch.com has written an interesting article on the effect of new-age web technologies like AJAX and Web2.0 on search engine crawlability. While I wasn’t aware of the impact of CSS on search engine behavior, and the impact … Continue reading

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Scriptaculous 1.7 to include Morphing effects

Thomas Fuchs of Mir.aculo.us has posted some examples of the new Morphing effects in Scriptaculous‘s 1.7 beta effects library. Looking good

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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 … Continue reading

Posted in Browsers, Development | 1 Comment

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 … Continue reading

Posted in AJAX, Development, JavaScript, Widgets | 46 Comments