Entries Tagged 'JavaScript' ↓

Shea Frederick has a post on the ExtJs blog on how to integrate Google Maps with your ExtJs application. Very cool stuff. I can’t wait to see mapping play a bigger and bigger part on websites. You can go directly to the demo or check out the code to see how easy it is to put a map into your app.

Yahoo! has released YUI version 2.5.2. This is a bug-fix release that adds support for the upcoming Firefox 3 and Opera 9.5 browser updates. There are fixes for better Adobe AIR support as well. Be sure to check out the release notes and then grab it from the YUI page.

Ext has released version 2.1 of their JavaScript framework. Changes include performance improvements, a new slider control, and a new status bar component. Another major change is the move from an LGPL license to a GPLv3 license. The licensing change has quite a few people up in arms, but personally, I think it is a good move. I like the GPL and its viral nature. If you look at it from the Ext developers point of view, it guarantees that the same freedoms they give to users in their free version are in turn passed along to the users of your software. If you don’t like it, buy a license

Spket IDE version 1.6.11 has been released. Looks like a bug-fix-mostly release with the addition of a new Theme Builder for Ext. Rey Bango, of Ext, has more information about this new feature on the Ext Blog. This should make integration of Ext-based widgets into your website much easier now that you can skin it easily to match your design.

via Ajaxian.

Version 1.1 of the Dojo JavaScript Toolkit has been released. The team not only fixed over 800 bugs but added many new features as well. For more information, check out the release notes.

Eric Miraglia posts on the YUI Blog today about the recent exploits of Douglas Crockford. A synopsis of Mr. Crockford’s keynote from the AjaxWorld East 2008 Conference is available along with the slides from his talk. Most of his complaints about the current state of the web revolve around the insecurities inherent in web browsers and JavaScript.

The post also mentions an interview with Douglas Crockford, Alex Russell, and Joseph Smarr on Microsoft’s Channel 9.

The Yahoo! developer network blog has posted slides from a talk Stoyan Stefanov made at the PHP Quebec Conference. In the talk there are twenty tips for maximizing the performance of your web pages. These tips are in addition to the regular ones you can get from YSlow.

Google has launched a new visualization API for generating graphs, charts, and other types of visualization widgets. You can see some examples of what you can do at their gallery. Documentation for the API can be found here.

The YUI team released version 2.5.1today. This is mostly a bug-fix release, but does contain improved support for Adobe AIR as well as a new YUI Dependency Configurator for getting only the specific YUI  components you need for your application.

Daniel Saxil-Nielsen has a nice Scriptaculous tutorial showing off Effect.ScrollTo(). Short and sweet  tutorial that will give you a nice little effect to add to your toolbox.