I wasn’t all that familiar with Sproutcore, Apple’s JavaScript framework prior to reading this article, but after thinking the arguments over, I think Apple has been flanking the other players in the application marketplace (both online and desktop) for a…
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SproutCore: Apple’s Flanking Move?
6/16/2008 – 10:46 am
Debugging Safari
6/12/2007 – 9:01 am
Check out this post by rakaz, which provides a quick walk-through on enabling the debug menu in Safari for Windows, which provides the ability to access JavaScript exceptions, show the JS console, enable a runaway JavaScript timer and turn off “Site-Specific…
Firebug Beta 1 Released
12/5/2006 – 9:38 am
The beta of Firebug 1.0 has been released and comes with some amazingly useful features. For those unfamiliar with this Firefox extension, Firebug provides a wealth of tools for developers to debug, monitor or edit portions of a site. Portions of…
Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS
9/21/2006 – 7:48 am
Automatic pullquotes with JavaScript and CSS provides “a way to add pullquotes without having to duplicate text in the markup“.
Mmmm Code Snippets
5/8/2006 – 9:00 am
Code Snippets is an online resource, providing a central user-writable repository for chunks of reusable code. A stroll through the language-agnostic site provides a plethora of tasty bits and bytes from many programming languages and frameworks. Each snippet can be tagged…
FlashObject
3/27/2006 – 4:02 pm
FlashObject “is a small Javascript file used for embedding Macromedia Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.”
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Nifty Corners Cube
3/22/2006 – 1:32 pm
Nifty Corners Cube is an image-free way of building rounded corners!
Docking boxes
3/19/2006 – 9:52 am
Docking boxes (dbx) “adds animated drag ‘n’ drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements. And … in what might be another world-first for brothercake - dbx is fully accessible to the keyboard as well as the mouse, an action…
Animated Live Search
2/17/2006 – 9:35 am
Animated Live Search is a great tutorial written by Steve Smith, which discusses how he has built his site-search. The cool thing is that the search presents its results immediately in a handy container within the current page instead of a…
JavaScript Libraries and Patterns
2/17/2006 – 9:23 am
Over at SitePoint, Kevin Yank discusses JavaScript Libraries and Patterns, running through packages offered up by Yahoo and others. While a bit short on details, it is a good overview and an ideal point form which to dive into the…