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4 New AJAX and JavaScript Tooltips

Paul Spoerry — March 9, 2009 — 3 Comments

Duplicate the jQuery home page tool tips using MooTools
The jQuery home page has a pretty suave tool tip-like effect, as seen above. Here’s how to accomplish the same effect using MooTools.

Prototip
Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tool tips using the Prototype JavaScript framework. You can easily customize it, control the tool tip position and get configurable rounded corners (with no PNG images required).

Simpletip
Simpletip is a plug-in for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tool tips with ease for any element on the page using the power of jQuery’s selectors and event management. The tool tips can be static, dynamic or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects.

Coda pop-up bubbles
Re-create Coda’s ‘puff’ pop-up bubbles, shown when you mouse over a downloadable image.

Read the full article at SmashingMagazine: 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

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Timeframe
A click-and-drag timeframe, with a function for defining ranges. A better calendar. Check out the demo here.

Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
Similar to the iPhone Calendar application, with event description that shows up on mouse hover. The trickiest part is making your images seamless and using a single image for all the graphics whenever possible to decrease download time. Check out the demo here.

Dateslider
This element enables you to pick dates with a simple slider bar. By dragging the bar over the timeline, the dates change instantly. And when the user decides to manually change dates, the bar is automatically adjusted to the corresponding dates. Check out the demo here.

Elegant animated weekly timeline
This tutorial explains how to design an elegant and animated weekly timeline, with daily annotations, that you can customize and reuse quickly in your Web projects. Check out the demo here.

70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

Unobtrusive datePicker widget
This unobtrusive datePicker (calendar), which is accessible using the keyboard, requires no embedded JavaScript blocks, uses no pop-up windows and is suitable for use within documents served as application/XHTML+XML. Check out the demo here.

Date Picker
Date Picker jQuery plug-in allows users to select a date or range of dates easily. It includes a lot of options: multiple calendars; single, multiple and range selection; marking of special, weekend and special dates; an easy-to-customize look via CSS; custom day to start the week, a fit with the viewport.

Read the full article at SmashingMagazine: 70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

jQuery UI 1.7 Released: New CSS Framework & Dramatic Updates to Controls

Paul Spoerry — March 9, 2009 — 2 Comments

The jQuery UI team has announced today, the release of v1.7 of their effects and UI controls framework. They have also opened up greater communication with the community via the new development wiki.

There’s a ton of new stuff in 1.7. They’ve fixed hundreds of bugs since 1.5.3 and are introducing many new features, a better core architecture, and major theming improvements.

The key new features include:

A new site dedicated to the jQuery UI project
jQuery 1.3 compatibility
Revamped and optimized plugins
A new extensible CSS framework
Major enhancements to the Themeroller theming applicaton
Demos & Documentation including offline support
Bundled themes

The introduction of the new ThemeRoller-ready CSS framework is especially important as it not only allows for easy theming of included jQuery UI but also allows plugin developers to create their own extensions that can take advantage of ThemeRoller’s visual theming capabilities.

This new release is immediately available for download and the team has provided a Getting Started with jQuery UI page to help get new users up to speed quickly.

Read more on the new release on Ajaxian.

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Browser Battle: Nine Browsers Compared

Paul Spoerry — March 6, 2009 — 1 Comment

Repost from my buddy Ken’s site.

MaximPC posted a very lengthy article in which it compared nine different web browsers. The article compares…

The article is much to lengthy for me to post in its entirety so I’ve posted the intro and a chart that highlights the comparisons. I encourage you to read their entire article.

[MaximPC] Anyone who may have thought the death of Netscape would signal the end of the browser wars, boy were they mistaken. In fact, it could be argued that it was at that point it all began. It didn’t take long for Mozilla’s Firefox to emerge from Netscape Navigator’s ashes, and over time, Firefox would win over enthusiasts with a potent combination of speed, security, and an unprecedented level of customization.

What started as a two-man battle is quickly growing into all-out warfare. Prepare to be overwhelmed by an onslaught of new browser releases in the coming months as Microsoft, Mozilla, Apple, Opera Software, and Google all vie to provide your vehicle for navigating the web. Each one brings something new to the table, whether it be blazing fast performance or a unique feature-set. Don’t worry if you haven’t been paying attention – we jump in the trenches with whole lot of them and get to know each one on a personal basis.

Source: MaximPC

Source: AKSturgeon

In Chrome, FireFox, Google, Tech, Web Life Browsers, Chrome, Google Chrome, internet explorer

Microsoft Facebook – Finally a good Facebook app for Windows Mobile

Paul Spoerry — March 5, 2009 — 3 Comments

XDA Developers have ripped the new Facebook application that comes with Windows Mobile 6.5. All I can say is… FINALLY. The fact is there are other Facebook apps for Windows Mobile but in my opinion they all suck. Their interfaces are wonky and they just don’t seem to work right. In a surprise move, Microsoft has finally jumped in and is building a Facebook application for Windows Mobile 6.5. As said above, the crafty guys are XDA have ripped the cab and made it available. It runs just fine on Windows Mobile 6.1 and has been reported to work on WVGA, VGA and QVGA devices. It gives you the ability to view photos, track your news feed, send messages, view friends’ profiles, and even dial or SMS your friends directly from the call tab.

You need to download and install the application to you phone (and install it on the device, NOT the storage card). The first run takes a while as it downloads everything, I suggest being hooked up to ActiveSync or Wifi the first time you run it.

One issue reported is that if you “log out” it won’t save your login info. However, if you just click the X and stop it that way it will in fact save your login.

Check out the video from PocketNow:

Download the cab from XDA here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=489379.

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Browser Battle: Nine Browsers Compared

Microsoft Facebook – Finally a good Facebook app for Windows Mobile