Scriptaculous
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has a detailed post on building a Flash-y game with scripty2 where he walks through a memory game. Everything is shown, from game logic all the way to the smooth animations and easings: < View plain text > javascript // animate cards to go to new positions cards.inGroupsOf(4).each(function(group, x) { group.each( function(card, Read the rest…
Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
Category: Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has some new controls and functionality to show us inthis scripty2 preview: Try the scripty2 UI demos! (alpha version, so there are some kinks!) Those controls are written with the super-nice Prototype class system and custom events, so they’re super-tweakable and make it a snap to create extensions and customized versions. More controls Read the rest…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has been working with Nokia on their multi-touch API for Qt/WebKit: scripty2 supports multiple API vendors for Multitouch events, and even provides a desktop emulation (click+drag to pan, shift+click+drag to scale and rotate)– so you can try this out even without having multitouch hardware at your disposal. Currently the scripty2 API abstraction event Read the rest…
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
A couple of quick updates for the Protoscripty crowd: Choose your own CSS selector adventure Fancy changing your selector engine at will? Simply rake dist SELECTOR_ENGINE=nwmatcher to switch to NWMatcher and beyond. What is the perf difference? Thanks to @jdalton you can give some tests a try! Script.aculo.us 1.8.3 is released It aint as sexy Read the rest…
Friday, June 26th, 2009
Category: Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched. It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos: What’s new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts: scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to Read the rest…
Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy are back with another web site, this time Freckle, a new take on time tracking. Thomas posted about it on his site and shared that it uses an early build of scripty2 which lead me to peak around on GitHub. It looks nice indeed. You can see the evidence of Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008
Category: Examples, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
XMG Networks has thrown their hat into the on-line photo sharing ring with the launch of 72photos, an Ajax-heavy site which looks at least partially inspired by Apple’s iPhoto ’08-generated web galleries. We asked 72photos to tell us a bit about how they went about building the site and how it compares to competitors like Read the rest…
Tuesday, April 29th, 2008
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Twistori is a fun little site created by Amy Hoy and Thomas Fuchs. As you would expect, design is a key part of the application, and the Prototype / Script.aculo.us combo pull off the work. The site pulls in live data on various topics (love, hate, think, believe, feel, wish) via the real-time twitter search Read the rest…
Monday, April 21st, 2008
Category: Games, JavaScript
, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
Sometimes you want Monday to be a Friday, so we have ProtoRPG, a role playing game written by Pierre Chassaing in JavaScript using Prototype and Script.aculo.us. Walk around, add to your inventory, and feel like you are playing your first RPG many moons ago, on a Friday.
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
Category: Component, JavaScript
, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
Obaid Ahmed has written a coverflow-like component on top of Prototype and Script.aculo.us called ProtoFlow. It is simple to use: < View plain text > HTML <div id="protoflow"> <img src="imgs/DSCN0940_91360.jpg"/> <img src="imgs/stimme_von_oben_187192.jpg"/> <img src="imgs/Tropfen_1_Kopie_201721.jpg"/> <img src="imgs/farbraum_012_147508.jpg"/> <img src="imgs/IMG_4906_199357.jpg"/> <img src="imgs/Tropfen_1_Kopie_201721.jpg"/> <img Read the rest…
Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Category: Prototype, Ruby
, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
I used to work in the healthcare sector, and was always amazed to see the amount of paperwork that was required. Literally paper work that is. The industry was full of drawers overflowing with paper. I imagine that the legal profession has its fair share of this too, but one company Nextpoint, is trying to Read the rest…
Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
Category: JavaScript, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
We’ve all seen variations on date selection components such as Marc Grabanski’s UI DatePicker and the very unique DateJS library. So it’s refreshing to see new ideas cropping up in this space. Geoffrey McGill, developer of the DateJS library, pointed me to a new date select control that uses a slider bar for choosing dates: Read the rest…
Monday, January 14th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Peter Higgins had a little fun, and created a parody of the script.aculo.us home page: dojo.moj.oe. The site shows off the new easing code that Robert Penner contributed to Dojo: A small change in the Animation system to accommodate the inclusion of the entire set of Robert Penner‘s Flash easing functions to The Dojo Toolkit. Read the rest…
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
NASA has relaunched their site tonight as NASA 5.0, in celebration of their 50th anniversary next year. It is the beginning of many web 2.0 features to come for NASA. Sep Seyedi of Critical Mass told us that “of interest to you is the fact that the new interface fully uses the script.aculo.us and prototype Read the rest…
Friday, November 30th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Scriptaculous
, Showcase
Thomas Fuchs is back in the consulting game and his new site gives us another glimpse of Script.aculo.us 2.0 abilities. The photo zooming? < View plain text > javascript Effect.PhotoZoom = Class.create(Effect.Element, { setup: function() { var currentHeight = $(‘text’).getHeight(); var newHTML = this.element.next(‘div.text’).innerHTML; Read the rest…
Friday, November 9th, 2007
Category: Games, Prototype
, Scriptaculous
Gary Haran wanted to see how well the latest versions of Prototype and Script.aculo.us worked, so he created a game, Same Name. The 179 lines of JavaScript has fun with animations and sound.
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
