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Filed under: Design, Developer, Internet

MiniAjax.com: Showroom for DHTML and AJAX scripts

miniajax.com: dhtml and javascript showroomEach day sees more and more Ajax tools, tricks, demos, and libraries come online. MiniAjax.com is a place that collects, on a very fluid and easy to browse page, all of the latest and greatest Ajax scripts that you can download and implement on your website.

There is a lot of good stuff to explore here such as:
  • GreyBox - a simple window you can use to launch another webpage within your website
  • Reflection.js - create cool image reflection effects
  • Heatmap - a hot (pun intended) utility to let you see where users click on your website
  • AjaxIM - a browser based IM client.
  • and many many more.
The author says he'll add links to 60 more scripts in March. Better add this baby to your bookmarks!

Filed under: Developer, Internet, Yahoo!, Open Source

Yahoo User Interface gets a big update

Tuesday the good folks from the Yahoo User Interface team released version 2.2.0 of their much loved JavaScript framework. The exciting changes this time around include a browser history manager, a data table control, and advanced button control. These additions are all still considered beta and extend the huge number of components currently available in the YUI library.

The Yahoo User Interface, if you haven't played with it, is a massive open source JavaScript framework along the lines of Prototype or Dojo. The library is heavily documented and supported (featuring examples, forums, cheatsheets, and videos) and lets you easily bundle Ajax, calendar, tab, drag and drop, auto complete, and all manner of other cool functionality into your web applications.

More on the new version (including examples) after the jump.

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Filed under: Photo, Text, Utilities, Web services, Open Source, Social Software

Tabblo your pictures

TabbloTabblo is a site that will import your pictures and help you arrange and resize pix until they make up a poster, so you can print them out. It is a social site, allowing you to share pictures and Tabblos with your peeps. The site features a sort of wiki interface, with AJAX-looking editing tools, though it claims to use DHTML instead. I was pretty happy with the editing and caption adding process. If you are looking for an alternative to normal photo layouts or just another neat thing to do with your pix, try out Tabblo, where you don't even have to sign-in to use it, which is my favorite feature of Tabblo.

[Via TechCrunch]

Filed under: Design, OS Updates, Web services

How many Web OS's are there?

web osAt this point web-based "operating systems" have to fight seemingly insurmountable odds to really work well. There are limits in the codebase (choosing JavaScript versus Flash, or a combo of both, results in a few compromises). There are limits within the browser itself (can't save if the window gets closed, or if the connection goes south). But that's not stopping people from trying. Webby's World has a little blurb about some of these attempts, and mentions a relative newcomer: XIN. I've been playing with Goowy for a while now and find it amusing and useful, not to mention getting better all the time. It's only a matter of time and maturity before the best of these are either acquired or get swept up in a MySpace-esque social vector. Anyone got a particular favorite in this race of could be's? To me they are like fancy cars- nice to look at, but not practical for driving to work every day.

Filed under: Developer, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Mozilla, Freeware, Browser Tips

FireBug: AJAX debugging for Firefox - Today's Browser Tip

FireBugHere's one for the Web 2.0 developers: FireBug. It's an extension for Firefox to aid in debugging JavaScript/DHTML/AJAX web apps. In the words of its developer Joe Hewitt, it's "like a combination of the Javascript Console, DOM Inspector, and a command line Javascript interpreter." Looks like a great tool for the discriminating developer.

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