It is time for the perennial “try-out-linux” experience, and this year I decided to not waste the effort on a crappy machine, but to try it out in a virtual environment on my more up to date laptop.
So the first decision is what distribution to test. This time I found a Linux […]
I gave it a chance, but my patience wore out. Vista is no more on my laptop, back to XP pro, but the trip was bumpy and filled with alot of pinched foreheads.
In my scenario, I had an XP Pro ISO which when I made bootable, and attempted to boot and install, was missing […]
Hats off to the YUI team for that a fast turnaround. As I had reported in this post, the YUI panel class would sometimes not allow a user to click the drop-down arrow in a select box in Firefox. With the release of YUI 0.12.2, that bug has been squashed. How about that […]
One of the best browser application debugging tools out there has just become better and has new features as part of a public beta. Although Firebug has always been Firefox only, there are now lite versions for IE and safari. Get to work!!
A pretty big list of generators for CSS, Ascii Art, Color schemes, FavIcons, Forms, images, pdf’s and even passwords.
Ever wondered how your AJAX applications would perform under a load test, but can’t/won’t buy an expensive load testing tool? I got tired of wondering so I figured out how I could create an AJAX application to test my AJAX applications. Nothing professional grade, but it can answer some of my performance questions. […]
I have always felt that the default Wordpress search was enemic and inaccurate at best, so I finally got around to changing the default search, and returning the results in a more “Web 2.0″ fashion. It could be easily adapted to any blog template since it only requires some YUI includes and a single […]
Jack Slocum is fast approaching deity status with this last project. He has created a YUI extension library for some kick-butt Web 2.0 layouts. The toolkit allows you to create collapsible sections, multiple (even nested) splitter bars, even automatic content tabs when you place two divs on top of each other. This […]
DavGlass has created an effects library for the YUI libraries to match those of Scriptaculous. The example page can be found here, the JS source code is here.
I applied this library to an existing application to show/hide the online Help with a Blind Up/Blind Down effect:
function toggleHelp(){
var d = YAHOO.util.Dom.get(’divHelp’);
if(d.style.display == ‘none’){
YAHOO.widget.Effects.BlindDown(d,{duration:1});
}else{
YAHOO.widget.Effects.BlindUp(d,{duration:1});
}
}
I have not had a chance to really play with this one, but simple, client side graphics without a plug-in or browser limitations looks too cool to not try.
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