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Improve the design of GUI/website

So i am using visual studio 2008, asp.net 3.5, with the basic toolkit provided. Now i have made the gui which a lot of functionality but the design is very basic. and looks too old. I need to give it a new look, a new feeling new designs.... like the gridview, the buttons the textboxes, the menus look basic... this is not working for...

Performance tuning a client-side heavy webapp & analyzing browser memory usage effectively?

I have a site - http://www.tubeloop.com/ -- that creates YouTube playlists in a loop. The codebase utilizes 3 jQuery plugins i've created - a youtube api wrapper, a youtube player wrapper and a radial menu. The site is a mashup and its extremely heavy on the client-side, as all requests made to YouTube, Facebook and Meebo are all made th...

How do I make my div IDs variable in rails?

I feel like there should be a simple way to do this, but I just don't know what it is. I have a list of data to display, and I want to include an AJAX "Read More" function to expand information at the bottom of each segment. To do this, I need unique div IDs within each segment. I have this code: <% for choice in @student_choices %> ...

Does SproutCore's "Binding" feature let widgets initiate a call to the server to obtain data?

My team is tasked with quickly evaluating SproutCore and a couple of other alternatives. There's not really enough time for a deep dive, but our findings might let us convince the powers that be to allow for a deeper dive. (Right now, we're just taking a quick glance to see "what's out there"). So me and a teammate have started looking ...

How can I pass data from an ajax request to a global variable?

Ok. I'm totally baffled. Here's the code: $(document).ready(function(){ var newToken = 1; $.get("junk.php", function(newToken) { alert(newToken); // alerts "junk" }); alert(newToken); // alerts "1" }); As per my comments, the first alert of newToken is "junk" (the only output of junk.php). Once outside the .get, ne...

Sending ajax form reloads page instead of sending request

I'm struggling to create a shoutbox for django. Everything works fine now concerning reading data from the database, but when I want to add a new shout the whole page is being reloaded, and from what I was able to check - form's action remains the same, and there is no request sent to function under specified url. What am I doing wrong h...

ms ajax $find('clientID') keeps coming up with error

Hi. I have a modal extender called modal2 and when I call $find('modal2').show(); It comes up with a classic error saying 'null' is null or not an object; I searched google a bit and made all the related controls to be visible for testing purpose but it has not made any difference. Any suggestions please? Thanks. ...

Enabling the Back button to act as an 'undo' button in an Ajax app

Hello everyone. I have a problem with an Ajax app that I'm trying to get working with the browser's Back and Forward buttons. I am using the jQuery History plugin to enable the browser history. The app consists of a page of products. There is a sort bar that enables the user to sort products by various values. The user may select a prod...

How to return and use an array of strings from a jQuery ajax call?

I'm using Google App Engine (Python) along with jQuery for Ajax calls to the server. I have a page where I want to load up a list of strings in Javascript from an Ajax call to the server. The server method I want to invoke: class BrowseObjects(webapp.RequestHandler): def get(self): ids_to_return = get_ids_to_return() ...

How to change link without reload (MVC2 / AJAX problem)

Hello everyone, I have been following this example http://demos.telerik.com/aspnet-mvc/grid/selectionclientside?theme=webblue, and have finished it for my spec. In my spec, the top table lists the name of a number of different database tables, and then the bottom displays the data of whichever specific table name was clicked. Now I hav...

MVC2 JQuery Syntax not working

Hi, newby here in MVC2, so please excuse my stupidity, But I really need help. I am trying to do the following : <script src="Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script> <script src="Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min-vsdoc.js" type="text/javascript"></scri...

Google Chrome display JSON AJAX response as tree and not as a plain text

I cannot find an answer to this one: My AJAX calls return JSON data. In Google Chrome Developer Tools > Resources > XHR when I click on the resource on the left and then on the Content tab I see the JSON string as a string and not as a tree as Firebug and Firebug Lite do. How do I force Chrome to diplay it as a tree. Is there a Content...

How Do I Create a JSON Feed from a MongoDB Collection

I'm creating a CMS for my client to work with his photographs and to sell them on his site. For the CMS end as well as the front end, which both will be all AJAX, it'd be nice to get a JSON feed setup so that I can just use the same feed to generate new "pages" and "views" with JS. So this example feed would have like {[name:'A Photo',d...

How to use jQuery with in xhtml?

i am using facelets,richfaces,and ajax, in XHTML i am facing error while creating datepicker! What is the solution for my problem? the code is: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; <html xmlns="http:...

JQuery Cross-Domain .load() (self-constructing widget)

I'm creating a widget for people to use on their websites, however to keep the widget future-proof, i want it to be self constructing using an external javascript. So the widget code i would ask people to put on their websites would be something like: <div id="my_widget"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.external-do...

Pass value to another page using jquery

Hi, this is my first time to post here. I have a problem on my jquery script. My goal is, I need to send values of a certain link to another page, so that the other page can use the value. I think using ajax post can do the job but I cant get any result. Here is my code: $(function() { var myLink = $('#link'); $('.class').click...

ModalPopupExtender stops working in GridView

Hi, I have an Ajax ModalPopupExtender inside a GridView with AllowPaging="true". On the first page it works fine, when you cycle through the other pages this stops working. Can anyone point me in the right direction please? Code as follows: Settings for GridView: <asp:GridView ID="gvwComments" runat="server" AllowPaging="True" ...

JQuery: How to extract elements from one page using AJAX, manipulate them and insert them in the DOM of the current page?

Hi, I'm new to JQuery. I'm not looking necessarily for code -- just someone to point me in the right direction or advise me on the best approach. Here's the scenario: When someone clicks a link on pageA.html, I want to display the entire contents of a DIV with an ID of "sampleId" which exists on pageB.html into a DIV on page A called...

i am trying to call back a string in PHP JQUERY

I am trying to call back the value of content_columns to jquery. PHP CODE: if($act=="getcol"){ $pid=$_GET['pid']; $domain_id = 1; $PAGEresult = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM pages WHERE domain_id='$domain_id' AND id='$pid' ORDER BY id DESC"); $PAGErow = mysql_fetch_array($PAGEresult); echo json_encode($PAGErow['content_columns']); } jQ...

how to create real-time collaborative (multi-user) text editor in ajax

I have to to create an Ajax based live text editor. The specifications are following; • User logs in on the website • User sees the list of logged in users • User selects one of the logged in users let’s say B, if the user B is available (not communicating with any other user), it gets a connection request. If user B accepts the reque...