Ajax Goodies

1. Ajax Goodies

   #1

   I have lists all over. The ones I *really* like but won't necessarily use. Feel free to post Ajax goodness here and comment on any that are posted.
   
   Shrink Extend text
   http://jmar777.blogspot.com/2008/02/jtruncate-in-action.html
   http://plugins.learningjquery.com/expander/index.html
   
   (using this shadow one on test site now)
   http://eyebulb.com/dropshadow/
   
   Can't help but think this might be useful
   http://flesler.webs.com/jQuery.SerialScroll/
   http://www.ndoherty.com/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/
   
   simple and small - it calls me. If I can get the autosave feature working with it, otherwise will stay with TinyMCE
   http://projects.bundleweb.com.ar/jWYSIWYG/
   http://www.jaysalvat.com/jquery/jtageditor/
   
   for manfred: extends text box as you type so you can always see your entire post. (demo is the comment box at the bottom of the page)
   http://www.no-margin-for-errors.com/2008/02/01/pretty-comments/
   
   Pagination
   http://d-scribe.de/webtools/jquery-pagination/demo.htm
   
   Everybody likes curvy corners
   http://blue-anvil.com/archives/anti-aliased-rounded-corners-with-jquery
   http://www.html.it/articoli/niftycube/index.html
   http://15daysofjquery.com/wrap-it-up-pretty-corners/13/
   
   Once we create the Settings page, a link order organizer
   http://www.bernardopadua.com/nestedSortables/test/widget/
   
   A newbie helping device or possibly a new way to submit something? I don't know....
   http://worcesterwideweb.com/jquery/wizard/
   
   Autosave method
   http://ideamill.synaptrixgroup.com/?p=3
   
   For Scras // Spoilers
   http://wanderinghorse.net/computing/javascript/jquery/spoilers/demo.html
   
   allows multiple updates after a action
   http://malsup.com/jquery/taconite/
   
   Inline text editor (like in the forum)
   http://www.appelsiini.net/projects/jeditable/default.html
   http://www.dyve.net/jquery/?editable
   
   CSS Style switcher on the fly
   http://www.kelvinluck.com/assets/jquery/styleswitch/
   
   Voting - with nice degrade
   http://www.phpletter.com/Demo/Jquery-Star-Rating-Plugin/#
   
   Submissions - to keep all the selects on one page. First combo-box decides what is show in next
   http://remysharp.com/2007/01/20/auto-populating-select-boxes-using-jquery-ajax/
   
   

2. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #2

   Ajax degradability:
   
   http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
   
   http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/January/javas.php
   http://www.thecounter.com/stats/2008/January/browser.php
   
   Not sure if it is going to be a primary concern. Stuff will still work, but it might be inconvenient to have javascript disabled.
   
   From the stats, I should be more worried about the horribleness of IE6 and how it will render the pages. I don't have a test version 6 to even look at it and everybody knows v6 sucks bad at compliance.
   
   True, can't trust statistics all the way, but I think it is a pretty good guage. I should be more worried about IE6 rendering issues than people not using javascript.
   
   
   
   

3. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #3

   For intra-browser compatibility issues, and tons of JavaScript/CSS/HTML/browser information, consult quirksmode. Very recommended.
   
   
   I have IE6 installed on my Linux, so I might be able to help out some. (If you want it yourself, get IEs4Linux, which smoothly gives you any of IE5.0, IE5.5, IE6.0 and even a beta of IE7, all in one instal. Very nifty for playing with dynamic functionality.)

4. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #4

   http://www.webdesignerwall.com/demo/jquery/
   
   A few cool things. Specifically the wordpress accepting/deleting of posts, and the actual deleting of posts. Other cool stuff too.

5. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #5

   Moon, here is your codex page. :)
   
   http://roshanbh.com.np/examples/content-move/index.html
   
   Needs to be dynamically loaded but it is still there in principle.

6. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #6

   This is almost like manfred's manifesto
   
   Progressive Enhancement are the keywords I have been reading about lately.
   
   In a nutshell: Get the site working with no javascript. Introduce javascript for only those that have it enabled and leave the function of the site as it is originally created for the rest. Let the browser and javascript recode the portions you want the javascript on and treat javascript like a css file, separated. Techniques are sound and easy to implement.
   
   http://simonwillison.net/static/2008/xtech/
   http://icant.co.uk/articles/pragmatic-progressive-enhancement/
   
   

7. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #7

   Yah! That is music for my ears!
   Good keywords.
   
   
   Also found another interesting site through them: http://24ways.org/
   Has a few interesting ideas strewn in it, mainly on design. Liked the one about respect in particular.

8. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #8

   http://vikjavev.no/highslide/
   
   That is a sweet little piece of code!

9. Re: Ajax Goodies

   #9

   Is that the new gallery?

10. Re: Ajax Goodies

    #10

    Very much thinking the gallery way.
    
    I also really like the "Scrolling HTML content". Combine that with the ajax. That might be the solution to the monster codex that we have thought about before which I haven't implemented. Instead of the entire codex and text being downloaded, we show the king codex with the index. The index can open each codex in that window and it is readable/commentable/voteable and then you can return to the main codex by closing it. I wasn't happy with the basic ajax way of doing it but think I like this approach.

11. Re: Ajax Goodies

    #11

    http://isotope.metafizzy.co/
    
    Please tell me a way to figure out how to use this!
    
    :)

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