Although I have been somewhat under-impressed by the ASP.NET AJAX library, I have been pleasantly surprised by the ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit, and especially with the masked edit boxes.
The idea behind the masked edit boxes is to provide a visual queue to the user as to how their input should look. This visual queue […]
New version that they have re-designated to be in line with their internal version numbers. New features include Browser History Manager (ajax back button support), a new DataTable class (not quite the Ext Grid, but still pretty good - example here), and some new YUI button controls (examples here). Some pretty cool stuff to […]
I just finished a new theme for my Wordpress blog that uses alot of the YUI libraries. The theme uses the Animation, Connection Manager, Container, DOM, Event, Tabview, Treeview, CSS Grid Layouts, and the CSS Reset libraries. Total development time, about 16 hours.
First, a hat’s off to the YUI and Wordpress teams who […]
After a week of nose down development in the Sharepoint 2007 environment, I came away with a greater appreciation for how similar Domino and Sharepoint are in their mechanics, and a certain fondness of the simplicity behind the facade of Sharepoint complexity.
As I mentioned in a previous article, the Sharepoint lists, views, and document libraries […]
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 […]
If you use the YUI calendar object, you may want to know that the URL’s for some of the images that are used are hard coded!! A big thanks to Firebug for making it easy to track that down, and for someone at Yahoo who added a configuration variable that makes the solution alot […]
With the successful launch of a benefits enrollment application at my office, I wanted to put some thoughts down on the use of the Yahoo User Interface javascript libraries in that application. All in all, the libraries were excellent, except for two bugs which remind me of the value of writing your own libraries.
The primary […]
Many applications we use every day us the F1 key to access the online help for that application. Many applications provide methods to override the default help prompt with your own, including browsers. So whay not provide our users with online help in a consistent method? Here is a (so far) cross browser […]
What is Sharepoint? Alot more than I thought when I started down the path of learning about Sharepoint products in support of our enterprise content management project. There is alot to learn, so I’ll only be scratching the surface but I wanted to try and show what this product is all about while avoiding the […]
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. […]