Browsing articles from "March, 2011"
Mar
31

Timeglide – an open-source timeline component built in javascript

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript  //  2 Comments

Timeglider is a zooming, panning data-driven timeline — great for history projects, project planning, and much more. This Javascript/jQuery plugin is completely free & open-source [MIT]. Commercial solutions are under development which will complement the timeline viewer: authoring tools, databases, support plans, etc. Our code repository is at github.com/timeglider.

Mar
30

Mobile Boilerplate – A best practice baseline for your mobile web app

By Vinod  //  All, HTML  //  1 Comment

Mobile Boilerplate is your trusted template made custom for creating rich and performant mobile web apps. You get cross-browser consistency among A-grade smartphones, and fallback support for legacy Blackberry, Symbian, and IE Mobile. Mobile Boilerplate is not a framework, but works well with projects like jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Phonegap and Appcelerator. You get an offline caching setup for free, fast button clicks, a media query polyfill, and many common mobile WebKit optimizations waiting for you. Use Mobile Boilerplate to start your mobile webapp quickly and immediately benefit from community best practices

Mar
29

oCanvas – Object-based canvas drawing

By Vinod  //  All, HTML, Javascript  //  1 Comment

oCanvas is a JavaScript library intended to make development with HTML5 Canvas easier. Instead of working with pixels, you work with objects. It’s very straightforward and easy to get started with. Please have a look at the examples to see just how easy it is.

Mar
23

yepnope.js – A Conditional Loader For Your Polyfills!

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript  //  1 Comment
yepnope is an asynchronous conditional resource loader that’s super-fast, and allows you to load only the scripts that your users need.
Mar
22

Tempo – The tiny JSON rendering engine by TwigKit

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript  //  1 Comment

Tempo is a tiny JSON rendering engine that enables you to craft data templates in pure HTML.

Why use Tempo?

  • Clear separation of concerns: no HTML in your JavaScript files
  • It makes AJAX content easier to work with
  • It’s as friendly as a bunny rabbit (which are quite friendly)

Key Features

  • Works in Safari, Chrome, FireFox, Opera, and Internet Explorer 6+
  • Itty-bitty footprint, lightning-fast rendering!
  • No dependencies – Works with or without jQuery
  • Degrades gracefully if JavaScript is not enabled
  • Supports nested and conditional templates
Mar
21

jStat : a JavaScript statistical library

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript  //  1 Comment

jStat is a statistical library written in JavaScript that allows you to perform advanced statistical operations without the need of a dedicated statistical language.

Mar
18

JavaScript Garden – a growing collection of documentation

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript, Tutorials  //  1 Comment

JavaScript Garden is a growing collection of documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language.

JavaScript Garden does not aim to teach you JavaScript. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended in order to understand the topics covered in this guide. In order to learn the basics of the language, please head over to the excellent guide on the Mozilla Developer Network.

Mar
17

CSSWARP – CSS Text to Path Generator

By Vinod  //  All, CSS  //  1 Comment

CSSWarp is a tool for “warping” HTML text directly in the browser. It will apply text transforms to your CSS in a way that you will have native text in an HTML page that looks as if it were created with Illustrators attach to path tool.

 

Mar
16

CSS3 Buttons – Simple CSS3 framework for style button links

By Vinod  //  All, CSS  //  1 Comment

CSS3 Buttons is a simple framework for creating good-looking GitHub style button links.

Mar
15

TinyBox2 – JavaScript Modal Windows

By Vinod  //  All, Javascript  //  1 Comment

This update to the TinyBox modal box script brings a ton of new features and still clocks in under 5KB. The script now supports iframes and images natively. You can POST with Ajax. Clicking ESC will close the window. Callback functions can be passed for load and close events. You can set CSS IDs to override the default styling. CSS position can be toggled between fixed and absolute. The mask opacity can be sent. You have full control over window location. And of course there is now a close button out of the box you can toggle