Javascript

Ajax Tabs Content Tutorial

Jan 8, 2007Comments

Dynamic Drive has a great tutorial to help you learn how to create a tabbed section on your website that uses Ajax to update the content.

The tutorial and script will show you how to:

Fetch and display an external page (from the same domain) inside a container when a tab is clicked on.
Add a “default” content [...]

Script.aculo.us Cheat Sheet

Jan 3, 2007Comments

I love cheat sheets, I’ve got quite a few pinned up in my office by my workstation. Here’s one for regular and new users of Script.aculo.us. It’s a great sheet that shows the different effects as well as how to code them in. Unfortunately, the cheat sheet doesn’t cover the various options [...]

CSS Dropdown Menu Comparisons

Jan 2, 2007Comments

Looking to do a CSS dropdown menu? Tyssen Design has published a great article detailing the Pros and Cons of 18 different implementations of CSS dropdown menus.
This is a great list and covers every version of a CSS dropdown menu (and other types like Java) that I’ve come across. Each method discussed also has [...]

Ajax Image Map Creator

Dec 22, 2006Comments

Simon Brüchner has created a great Ajax powered image map creator. This is a great online tool that lets you build an image map as you would in a program like Dreamweaver. As you click to build the hotspots, the HTML is generated on the fly.
Simon uses Prototype, Script.aculo.us, Javscript Vectorgraphics Library, dp.SyntaxHighlighter, [...]

Awesome Box a Replacement for Lightbox

Dec 12, 2006Comments

Paul Armstrong introduced Awesome Box on to the scene today. Awesome Box is basically a rewrite of Lightbox that uses YUI instead of Scriptaculous. Unfortunately, Awesome Box in its current state doesn’t work on IE6. Of course, Paul says he’ll work on that very soon.
Aside from that, Awesome Box looks to be [...]

SWFUpload - A Better Upload

Nov 16, 2006Comments

Over on Ajaxian Dion Almaer posted about SWFUpload, which is a small Javascript/Flash library that is a great improvement in the way file uploads work online.
Created by Lars Huring and his team, SWFUpload recplaces the contents of a div with a small transparent flash file that takes care of all the upload and frontend, Javascript [...]