Category Archives: AJAX

Firebug 1.0 Beta

Posted on November 30, 2006 by kevin

I’ve been playing with the Firebug 1.0 private beta for the last few days and it’s quite a tool. v0.4 the last release of Firebug had already combined the most popular features Venkman, Console2, and the DOM inspector. 1.0 adds … Continue reading →

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Faster DOM Queries

Posted on March 28, 2006 by kevin

Dean Edwards has posted a demo with a cross browser way of super quick DOM queries. Limitations * As described earlier, speed improvements only apply on page load for IE. Further DOM queries will use the original getElementsBySelector function * … Continue reading →

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Gmail Whoas

Posted on March 15, 2006 by kevin

Gmail and Talk have been having some trouble again. It’s been slow more often than not and I captured a few more *error modes*. Today I saw Gmail chat recover with this little gem. Hey at least they recognized they … Continue reading →

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500 Mashups

Posted on March 12, 2006 by kevin

ProgrammableWeb.com now has over 500 mashups listed. As shown on Mashup Feed the average new mashups per day is up to 2.81. And that is just those added to the database here. This is up from 2.6 or so just … Continue reading →

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JSONRequest

Posted on March 12, 2006 by kevin

JSONRequest has been proposed by Douglas Crockford as a new native method for web browsers to exchange data with servers. The biggest notable difference with XMLHttpRequest is that it doesn’t prevent requests to multiple domains. JSONRequest can make requests to … Continue reading →

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Gmail chat problems

Posted on March 2, 2006 by kevin

I’ve noticed a few errors in gmail’s new chat interface. The gmail quick contacts are not always up-to-date. Just yesterday I got this this error message: It’s a new service, so not too surprised that chat is seeing a few … Continue reading →

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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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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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