Monthly Archives: February 2006

AJAX Amazon Music Search

Posted on February 26, 2006 by kevin

Put together an AJAX demo using Amazon’s webservice API. Basically type in an artist name or song title and it’ll return the first 10 hits from Amazon’s music search. It’s using script.aculo.us for the ‘Grow’ effect when the results return. … Continue reading →

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YubNub Suggest – Reloaded (Dojo)

Posted on February 25, 2006 by kevin

First YubNub Suggest example used script.aculo.us. This time tried Dojo’s autocomplete code. Smoother auto complete, including support for arrow keys, but has a harder time selecting an option. Doesn’t seem to like space as a keystroke selector. You can try … Continue reading →

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Firefox Array.toString() is very slow

Posted on February 23, 2006 by kevin

Ran into an interesting problem with JavaScript’s Array.toString() in Firefox.  It’s extremely slow even for a very small array.  Take an array with a single object and you’d like to call toString() to get the type of the contained object.  … Continue reading →

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AJAX Auto Complete

Posted on February 20, 2006 by kevin

Few sites these days are using AJAX Auto Complete to help users filter known choices or reduce typing.  As more AJAX libraries are released this practice should appear more frequently. Autocomplete generally comes in two flavors; Local Auto Complete and … Continue reading →

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YubNub Suggest

Posted on February 20, 2006 by kevin

YubNub has been around for sometime. I went looking for a Suggest version that would autocomplete common commands. I did a few searches and all I came up with was DashNub which is an OSX Widget.  Using script.aculo.us‘s autocomplete code … Continue reading →

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AJAX Developers Toolbox – Firefox plugins

Posted on February 18, 2006 by kevin

Earlier I wrote about a few developer must have’s for AJAX coders. There are several useful plugins to Firefox that also come to mind.  Venkman, the JavaScript debugger leads the list, but since I covered it here, we don’t need … Continue reading →

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Favicon fun

Posted on February 15, 2006 by kevin

Ever need to create a favicon image?  Not something you do everyday but when you do it sure would be nice to have a tool.  You could always use Photoshop, Microsoft Paint, etc.  I wanted an easier way.  After a … Continue reading →

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Graded Browser Support

Posted on February 13, 2006 by kevin

Nate posted an article which coincided with Yahoo’s launch of their UI Library titled "Graded Browser Support".  It appears he first coined the phrase in 2004.  Subsequent google hits all point to Nate.  I must admit it’s quite novel.  He … Continue reading →

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AJAX Developers Toolbox – Overview

Posted on February 11, 2006 by kevin

AJAX programmers today have many tools available to them. Here’s a quick overview of some popular ones. Debuggers Firefox – Venkman without a doubt is a must have for any serious JavaScript hacker these days. All the functionality you’ve come … Continue reading →

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eval() is evil: window to the rescue

Posted on February 9, 2006 by kevin

In JavaScript eval() has long known to be evil. Take for example: function foo(){} foo["str1"] = “aaaa”; foo["str2"] = “bbbb”; foo["str3"] = “ccccc”; Elsewhere you need to lookup items from this structure. Where both “foo” and “str1″ are pass in … Continue reading →

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