Archive for the ‘AJAX, DOM, JavaScript, CSS, XML, XHTML’ Category

Look Ma, All App and No Code!

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

YUI simply rocks! Yahoo also serves up code for FREE! ( But err…. if you use code directly from Yahoo’s servers, you are likely to encounter some latency) Here’s a wierd idea on what Yahoo can do next with YUI… Come up with http://designer.yahoo.com/yui Build an WYSIWYG IDE (could be web ...

Hide UnHide Divs using Display

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Now that a simple layout using divs is created, its time to play hide and seek. See Example >> Defined a variable “var = east” and assigned to “Div Id= east” using document.getElementById.” The entire layout is split into multiple Divs like North, East, West and South. And then the Plot thickens…. See another ...

Simple Layout using CSS

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007

Here’s a simple layout designed using div tags. See Example >> I split up the entire layout into Divs and named them as North, East, West and South. Used ‘North’ as a “Class” and the rest as “IDs”. Realized that for “Overflow” to work, height of the div needs to ...

Dojo Toolkit

Tuesday, May 15th, 2007

Here’s some basic info about Dojo Toolkit. Demos | Docs | Dojo Toolkit - Set of JavaScript Libraries - Client side technology , works with any Server side technology - Supports AJAX - Hides XMLHttpRequest processing - Handle browser incompatibilities - Handles Asynchronous communication through XMLHttpRequest - Invokes “Event Handles” before and after an event occurs - Provides ...

Analysis of Application States

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

Keeping the Web in Web 2.0 An HCI approach to designing web applications Analysis of application state and its representation in browser historyand bookmarks. One of the disadvantages of AJAX is that browser history and bookmarks of classic web applications are broken if not implemented specifically Only some elements of interaction state are recorded ...