David Ehlers » JavaScript

JavaScript Processing

David Ehlers — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 18:42:57 +0000

“Processing.js is an open programming language for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions for the web without using Flash or Java applets. Processing.js uses Javascript to draw shapes and manipulate images on the HTML5 Canvas element. The code is light-weight, simple to learn and makes an ideal tool for visualizing data, creating user-interfaces and developing web-based games.”

Yahoo’s Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site

David Ehlers — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:09:28 +0000

Nicely written and useful:

Yahoo’s Exceptional Performance team has identified a number of best practices for making web pages fast. The list includes 34 best practices divided into 7 categories.

http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html

YUI Library 3

David Ehlers — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:26:15 +0000

Yahoo has released a pr1 of their revised YUI Library.

The YUI team is pleased to announce YUI 3.0 Preview Release 1. This preview is an early look at what we’re working on for the next generation of YUI Library. Pleasereview the API, play with the examples, and read the documentation on this site for details; download YUI 3.0 PR1 on the YUI project area on SourceForge; you can find us with questions or comments on the YUI 3.x discussion group.

This YUI 3.x is part of the broader YUI Library project, which is a coherent collection of JavaScript and CSS resources that make it easier to build richly interactive applications in web browsers. They have been released as open source under aBSD license and are free for all uses.

JavaScript Info Visualization Toolkit

David Ehlers — Thu, 08 May 2008 04:26:36 +0000

The JIT is an advanced JavaScript infovis toolkit that was based on 5 papers regarding different information visualization techniques. The JIT implements advanced features of information visualization like Treemaps (with theslice and dice and squarified methods), an adapted visualization of trees based on theSpacetree, a focus+context technique to lay Hyperbolic Trees, and a radial layout of trees with advanced animations (RGraph).

Some very nifty tools here:http://blog.thejit.org/?page_id=14

In particular, check out the spacetree demo

Also a nice bibliography.

Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

David Ehlers — Tue, 06 May 2008 23:35:44 +0000

I’ve been in drupal world again, which happens to use the jQuery JS libraries. Simon Willison has some great resources and links here: Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery

The latest jQuery. jQuery is a fast, concise, JavaScript Library that simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.

Mootools Mocha UI

David Ehlers — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:09:03 +0000

I LOVE Mootools and here is another reason why - Mocha : “Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework. The Mocha GUI components are made with canvas tag graphics.”