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YQL Toolbox

Chris Heilmann hat in der Hackday Toolbox code samples zusammengestellt die unter anderem auf folgende Fragen Antwort geben:

• How do I use YQL from JavaScript or PHP?
• How do I display information I received from YQL with PHP or JavaScript?
• How do I get the location of the user and how do I analyse content for geographical locations?
• How do I access oAuth authenticated information of Yahoo?

Slide Out Boxes

Diese Slide Out Boxes sind hübsch:

The main idea is to show a fixed list at the right side of the screen with some thumbnails sticking out. When the user hovers over the items, they slide out, revealing the title and two links, one for the related article itself and one for the demo.

Nett ist auch das CSS3 Minimalistic Navigation Menu. Nix wirklich neues, aber hier als reine CSS3 Lösung umgesetzt.

JavaScript Minification

Nicholas C. Zakas gibt Tips wie man JavaScript schreiben sollte um das meiste aus dem YUI Compressor zu holen.

This article emphasizes what you should do to take advantage of YUI Compressor’s best feature for minification: local variable name replacement. (…) When deploying JavaScript out into production, your only consumer is the browser, and the browser couldn’t care less about variable names. For that reason, the YUI Compressor replaces these variable names with shorter versions. (…) While the YUI Compressor can perform variable replacement on local variables, there is nothing it can do about properties. Since property names are defined on the object itself, there is no way to safely detect or replace them. That means code that accesses many properties will end up larger than code that doesn’t.

jQuery: Cloud Carousel

Das ist mal ein sehr schickes Carousel:

The above carousel features optional auto-reflections, and the information contained in the Alt and Title tags of the images can optionally be displayed as you hover over each image.

There are some benefits to doing this kind of thing in JavaScript rather than Flash, not least of which is the ease of integration, small file size, SEO, and inherent degradability/accessibility. Not having another dev-tool in the workflow is another plus.

The carousel features realistic perspective. Many 3d carousels only apply perspective scaling to the size of the images, not their positions. This results in disproportionate gaps appearing between items as they shrink in the distance which looks odd.

gefunden bei ajaxline

Joomla mit MooTools 1.2.4

Yea, Joomla 1.5.19 bringt MooTools 1.2.4 mit! Aktiviert wird die neue Version über das Mootools 1.2.4 System plug-in.

There will be a compatibility layer included in the 1.2.4 version of mootools.js. This means that the the layer patches the old functions with the new ones, in turn meaning that developers don’t have to support both versions in their code. If the compatibility layer works as promised, this will make it easier for developers to transition their extensions.