Archive for 'Framework'
JavaScript frameworks
August 25, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Excellent List of famous JavaScript frameworks,
Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle
August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of it all. I listened to their concerns and came up with a framework for JavaScript applications called
ViewsHandler.
One of …
The lessons of CSS frameworks
August 20, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.
Eric took a look at the most popular CSS frameworks (960, Blueprint, Content With Style, That Standards Guy, YAML, YUI, Elements, Tripoli, WYMStyle) and …
Prefer Ruby syntax? See Red, and your Ruby will convert to JS
August 13, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
I am a fan of Ruby, and when I saw Red the framework that allows you to write Ruby and get JavaScript out the other end I was excited. It allows you to write this:
PLAIN TEXT
RUBY:
class MyClass
@@my_var = 500
def initialize(arg)
@arg = arg
end
def my_method
alert(@arg)…
Faster, cleaner JavaScript applications
August 12, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Components is a high-level javascript framework. It gives you everything you need to write class-driven, unobtrusive, asynchronous applications in less code than ever before.
MockMe: A new JavaScript mocking framework
August 11, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Johannes Link is an Agile fellow who wasn’t 100% happy with the existing JavaScript unit test frameworks, and he explained why. He gives an example:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
testDoubleSpeaker: function() { with(this) {
var actualMsg = null;
var mockSay = function(msg) {
actualMsg = msg;
};
Speaker.say = mockSay;
DoubleSpeaker.say(’oops’);
assertEqual(’oopsoops’, actualMsg);
…
Speed Up Web Application - Gzip Javascripts And Css
August 7, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Bizroof uses prototype and scriptaculous as javascript framework in order to provide desktop-like look and feel. But, the framework itself is big in size and therefore takes quite a while to load. Although it only happens once to download the files, it still annoys the first-time visitors…. …
Adding alternative JavaScript frameworks to your Joomla!
August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
There a number of cool JavaScript frameworks and sometimes you get into situation when you want to use some nice features from them in your Joomla! system. The major JS frameworks that we will talk about are: jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo and Yahoo UI.
Frameworks for Designers
August 6, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
These days, “framework” is quite a buzzword in web development. With JavaScript frameworks like the Yahoo User Interface library, jQuery, and Prototype getting a lot of attention and web application frameworks like Rails and Django getting even more, it seems like everyone is using some kind of framework to build their sites.
GreasePocket: Firefox’s Greasemonkey for the iPhone
August 4, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
GreasePocket is an experimental proof-of-concept framework, similar to Firefox’s Greasemonkey, which lets people customize the way web pages display using JavaScript.
Adobe AMF Support in Zend Framework
July 31, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted on a proposal for AMF support in the Zend Framework, which is being lead by the AMFPHP project leader, Wade Arnold.
This ZF component will allow for client-side applications built with Flex and Adobe AIR to communicate easily and efficiently with PHP on the server-side.
We are excited about this proposal as it is consistent …
Why I don’t use javascript frameworks
July 31, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
In a world where jQuery, Prototype, Mootools rule javascript development is there a place for pure hand made js code? Yes. Read all about why it is still cool to write your own JavaScript.
Light-weight JSON Binding Framework
July 30, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
In my other life as a desktop application developer (which due to a mix of Fluid, AIR, Prism, canvas, SVG, and Flash is threatening to converge on my Ajax life) I’ve long been a fan of data-binding frameworks that make it easy to have a form automatically synchronize with backing data structures, saving you from the tedium of a dozen …
Download Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 + Crack, Serial, Keygen
July 28, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is the best software for making sites as web designing, for� the web development. You can customized all the CSS, HTML, PHP, Javascript and all various server-side scripting languages and frameworks including ASP.NET, JavaServer Pages, ColdFusion, many more through on this webmaster software.
Free Javascript 3D Carousel
July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Carousel.us is a Javascript 3D carousel, using the prototype.js and scriptaculous.js frameworks.
Pondering Support of IE6
July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
If there’s a single experience that bonds all Web developers, it is the incomprehensible joy of wasting hours of our lives supporting IE6. The quasi-palindromic Dionysios Synodinos (alright, it’s pretty far from reversible, but there’s got to be a good anagram in there) over at InfoQ has put together a fun piece discussing wither IE6. From the article:
Since attaining …
ExtJS: Introduzione
July 22, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
ExtJS è un framework in javascript client-side per la realizzazione di applicazioni web.Il cuore di questa libreria è l’ oggetto Element con il quale potremo referenziare un elemento sulla nostra pagina …
Announcement to make!
July 21, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Hello people i have an announcement to make. The next series of posts on this blog we will be creating a javascript framework on one step at at time. We will call this framework “Smallbug” ..It will be a framework based on the module concept, this allows you to quickly develop the module your project needs.
10 Mootools scripts for enhancing your html forms
July 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
You know it: Forms are one of the most important part of a website. But forms also require a lot of work. Happilly, the excellent Javascript framework Mootools is here to help: Here’s 10 scripts to enhance your forms, both visually and functionally.
XBL 2: The component model is coming to WebKit and Gecko
July 15, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Wouldn’t it be nice if we actually had a decent component model? Instead of making JavaScript frameworks have to mess around and try to create one on top of the crud they have to deal with?
This is what XBL 2.0 is all about. I talked about XBL in one of my Web Archeology posts, and how Jonas Sicking …
Interview with the Gears on Rails team
July 14, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
With my Google hat on, I got to interview Michael Marcus and Rui Ma, two recent graduates from a masters program at NYU. They joined me to discuss Gears on Rails, their open source framework that makes it easier than ever to take a Rails code-base offline.
They take the approach of giving you a high level Ruby-ish way …
MooTools Typewriter Effect Class
July 8, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Last week, I read an article in which the author created a typewriter effect using the jQuery javascript framework. I was impressed with the idea and execution of the code so I decided to port the effect to MooTools.
What’s Bizroof Made?
July 6, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
The application is made with PHP and javascript, and we use a MySQL database. Amazon’s S3 is used for storage of files upload by users. Prototype and script.aculo.us provides us with easy-to-use and sexy user interface. We use Zend Framework APIs to support web services (such as Google, Flickr, Yahoo and Amazon).
IE8 showing how serious it is about security
July 3, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
The IE8 team has created a blitz on its blog with a slew of posts on security. There is a ton of great stuff here, and is well worth going into detail on each post:
IE8 and Trustworthy Browsing
At first they set the scene:
This blog post frames our approach in IE8 for delivering trustworthy browsing. The topic is complicated enough …
ratproxy: Rat out those security issues in your Web app
July 3, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Michal Zalewski, of Google, has released ratproxy, a tool to test your Web application against attacks such as XSS and XSRF:
Ratproxy is a semi-automated, largely passive web application security audit tool. It is meant to complement active crawlers and manual proxies more commonly used for this task, and is optimized specifically for an accurate and sensitive detection, and automatic …
Shrinking frameworks; Dojo in 6k
July 3, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Dojo is a framework that you can bend for your needs. You have very fine grained control on what you want in your base dojo.js, how other components are loaded, and a final custom JavaScript file.
Brad Neuberg showed a project, SearchTools, that added local search via Gears, and had a custom Dojo that wasn’t Dojo in a very small package.
Alex …
Evaluating JavaScript Frameworks:Best Cross-section of Links
July 2, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Here’s a cross-section of helpful links for anyone choosing a Javascript framework.
Loom: Annotation based Java framework
July 2, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Ignacio Coloma has announced Loom 1.0 RC 1. Loom is an annotation-based java web framework that includes a ton of new features in this release. After some selective process, these are the bits that could be of most interest for Ajax developers:
Generates HTML 5 markup (with data-* fields), including CSS classes
with the property type.
Based on prototype
An ever-growing list …
TCPSocket: Sockets in the browser
July 1, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Michael Carter of Orbited has written about how he now likes to call Comet sockets in the browser, and has an implementation available that looks like this:
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JAVASCRIPT:
var conn = new TCPSocket(hostname, port)
conn.onopen = function() { alert(’connection opened!’) }
conn.onread = function(data) { alert(’RECEIVE: ‘ + data) }
conn.onclose = function(data) { alert(’connection closed!’) }
conn.send(’Hello World’);
The above code code …
The fight for cross domain XMLHttpRequest
June 27, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
There is a thread going on secure cross domain requests. Microsoft came out with a paper saying that the W3C standard isn’t secure, and pushing the Microsoft XDR spec:
A few proposals and implementations exist like XDomainRequest in IE8, JSONRequest and the W3C’s Web Applications Working Group’s Cross Site XMLHttpRequest (CS-XHR) draft specification, which combines an Access control framework …
CodeIgniter: Extend HTML Helper, script_tag(); added
June 27, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Code to extend one of the basic helpers that CodeIgniter, a PHP framework, includes. With this script you can easily add JavaScript files at your views.
Cocoa on the web: 280 North, Objective-J, and Cappuccino
June 26, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
SproutCore is but one complete, pure JavaScript framework for building web-based applications. In developing its presentation app called Slides, 280 North wanted to make creating web apps as easy as creating desktop apps in Cocoa. So, the company did the logical thing: ported Cocoa to JavaScript.
LightWindow JavaScript Framework Review | Webmasters by Desi
June 25, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
LightWindow is a JavaScript framework based on Prototype and Scriptaculous. If you aren’t familiar with these two amazing resources, it is definitely worth your time to become familiar with them. They are two of the most useful resources available for Web 2.0 developing.
JUNE JavaScript Framework Exclusive
June 24, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
The all anticipated JUNE JS Framework has now been released! It was well worth the wait, I wont say much about it and let you go check it out for yourselves. So you know, JUNE is flexible, AJAX compatible, simple and yet powerful!
A Webkit-based Platform?
June 23, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Last week’s news of Apple’s adoption of the SproutCore Javascript framework was met with a shrug of the shoulders by some web developers. Indeed, SproutCore itself is just the packaging together of existing web technologies into a developer-friendly package. No brand new capabilites were introduce…
Nuclear Explosion Simulator
June 22, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Have you ever wondered what would happen if a nuclear bomb goes off in your city? With Google’s Maps framework and a bit of Javascript, you can see the outcome. And it does not look good.
Macworld | iPhone Central | Adobe works on Flash for iPhone,
June 19, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
While Adobe is working with the iPhone SDK to bring Flash to the iPhone, Apple is working with SproutCore, an open source JavaScript framework the company reportedly used to build MobileMe. Some have even called SproutCore a “Flash Killer,” which may explain Apple’s reluctance to include the technology on the iPhone.
SproutCore Raises the Bar for Client-Side Programming
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Client-side Web developers work mainly in JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, displaying and manipulating data within a Web browser, while retrieving and storing that data on the server. A new exciting entry on this front is SproutCore, a new JavaScript framework that brings a full model-view-controller (MVC) approach to client-side programming. Learn how!
Apple finally goes RIA
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
I shouldn’t say finally. The writing has been on the wall forever but most people couldn’t figure out what the writing said. It turns out it has a name, SproutCore, an open source Javascript framework that has been getting some buzz because it may be powering the Mobile Me suite of applications from Apple soon.
Apple wants SproutCore for Web Applications
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
AppleInsider said that Apple detailed their use of a JavaScript framework named SproutCore at WWDC last week.
Apple adopts SproutCore web framework
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Apple formally adopted a new web design framework at the end of last week’s WWDC conference, accounts say. Although the session was guarded with high security and a non-disclosure agreement, information has reportedly emerged on Apple’s announced development for SproutCore, an existing, open-source JavaScript framework based on Cocoa.
Apple Adopting SproutCore for Web Applications
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
AppleInsider reports that Apple detailed their use of a JavaScript framework called SproutCore at WWDC last week.
Apple’s SproutCore, OSS Javascript-Based Web Apps
June 17, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
AppleInsider is running an article about Apple’s new SproutCore Web application development framework, utilizing Javascript and some nifty HTML 5 to offer a ‘Cocoa-inspired’ way to create powerful Web applications. Apple built on the OSS SproutIt framework developed for an online e-mail manager called ‘Mailroom.’
Apple thinks SproutCore is the foundation of the future web
June 16, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
SproutCore is an open source, platform-independent, Cocoa-inspired JavaScript framework for creating web applications that look and feel like desktop applications. And it’s the basis of the Apple’s MobileMe apps.
SproutCore: Being talked of as a Flash killer? Really?
June 16, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
It may be going a little far to hype up Cocoa for Windows + Flash Killer = SproutCore.
The post goes into a lot of history, including going back to NeXT days, to try to setup a case to match the title. It could all be a lot simpler though. They get to the meat:
The SproutCore JavaScript …
Bringing MVC to JavaScript - SproutCore
June 15, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
SproutCore is a JavaScript framework that runs entirely in the browser. It’s designed to be run against any server back-end setup. At Jolley’s company, SproutIt, they use Rails as the backend; they facilitate the connection through a custom Rails plug-in that’s included with the SproutCore framework. Apple runs SproutCore runs against WebObjects.
Pingdom checks on JavaScript usage on top sites
June 13, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Pingdom, the service that has gotten popular telling us when Twitter is down, has just released stats on which Javascript frameworks are the most common.
The websites were collected from the Alexa US Top 100 and the Webware Top 100 Web Apps. The frameworks we looked for were Prototype, JQuery, MooTools, Yahoo! UI Library, Dojo, ExtJS and MochiKit.
They talk about …
Pivot: Swing++ as New Java-based RIA Platform?
June 13, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
And now for something a little bit different on a Friday. Greg Brown from VMWare pointed us to the fruition of nearly a year’s worth of R&D: Pivot, a new GUI toolkit for Java.
While traditionally Java Applets and the Web have mixed together about as well as concrete and peanut butter, the upcoming …
MooTools 1.2 Released
June 13, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Many people wrote in to tell us about the recent MooTools 1.2 release and updated MooTools website. Coming nearly a year to the day after their last production release (1.11), Moo differentiates itself from other popular frameworks by cramming Prototype-inspired helpers and smooth effects into a small download. Weighing in at 90KB …
Javascript framework usage among top websites
June 11, 2008 | Filed under: Framework
Here is a great post from Royal Pingdom. This post answer for the question “Which Javascript frameworks are the most common?”. Ok, read it :)To answer that question, we here at Pingdom have examined a set of almost 200 popular websites to see if they use a Javascript framework, and in that case which framework they have chosen.

