javascript-framework

How good is jQuery at coexisting with other Javascript libraries?

I am working on a server-side framework. Here and there I have been adding hand-crafted javascript to do things on the client side. However this is becoming more and more painful and from what I heard I think jQuery can be of help. The issue is that as this is essentially server side stuff, I don't want to obligate my users (assuming ...

How do hosted services like UserVoice embed their content on other web sites?

Hi, How do hosted services like UserVoice embed their content on other web sites? I see that it is via including a JavaScript file from the service provider on your own page, however, what I'm interested in are the building blocks for creating a service like that. For example, do they use a library like jQuery, mooTools, or prototypej...

Which javaScript framework for cross-domain?

Hi All, I am building a web service that will make heavy use of cross-domain GET and POST data, and then update some lightbox or similar windows on the client. Is there one JavaScript framework that is better at this, or more importantly, a framework which I should avoid? I want to be able to put controls in the boxes. Really sexy bo...

Existing Drag-and-Drop Application/Framework in Javascript

Does anyone here know of a Javascript application (something similar to Lightbox, only not for images) for drag-and-drop, preferably running on the Prototype Javascript Framework? Alternatively, I'm open to using jQuery or something else that's supported by the major browsers. ...

Visual effects in Javascript.

I am looking for a book, tutorial or something like where I can learn to Create visual effects like Scriptaculous for example http://wiki.github.com/madrobby/scriptaculous/effect-fold Thanks in advance. ...

How to Limit DOM interaction to an element and its children?

I am building a modular frame work for a PHP MVC site. I am using Jquery. I have a registerModule('module_name') method that when called creates an instance of a module object with this name. These module objects are functions that return an object they are contained within individual script files example of test_module.js core.modou...

Why is it important to load a JS framework from Google's AJAX Libraries API ?

I remember reading somewhere that it is a lot better to load a JS framework from Google's AJAX Libraries API, rather than using a locally hosted one. This means that instead of : <script src="jquery.js"></script> You load the framework from Google: <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;...

Web 2.0 & JavaScript Framework

We are designing an ASP.NET website. The client asked us to have the website with Web 2.0 features. Would you please provide any good reference material links to achieve this Web 2.0? I need one more clarification please. May I know out of JQuery / Prototype / Other which one is the latest JavaScript framework that designers are using i...

hiding a span in mootools

hi geeks!!! i'va simple code in mootools which shows hides a span tag..but by default, it sows the text which i want to be shown only upon clicking a show button.. can anyone tell me how to hide a span tag in mootools? Element.implement({ fancyShow: function(){this.fade('in');},fancyHide: function() {this.fade('out');}}); ...

Selecting an entry in a grid view table using java/javascript

Hi all, I am automating a an application written in C#. i dont have its code. in application there is a grid view table containing list of templates. i want to select a particular template by its name and not its row index. for example: consider the grid view table consisting list of months. Now i want to select "May" month in the li...

How to design a Javascipt Library?

Hello guys, We have just started our new assignment - web-based project. Before I get directly on to the question it would be necessary to explain about the project. We are actually moving a product from desktop to web. This is it. All backend services are web services. Our choice of server technology will be .NET. As we are good with ...

Drawbacks of KSS

Has anyone here used KSS? KSS is an AJAX framework. KSS has both a client-side Javascript library and server-side support. The client-side Javascript library needs to be included in your page. It fetches Kinetic style sheets from the server, parses them and binds a set of action to browser events and/or page elements. It is...

Is this scoping possible in javascript?

I am working on a javascript framework. I have several independent scripts that look like this: core.modules.example_module = function(sandbox){ console.log('wot from constructor ==', wot); return{ init : function(){ console.log('wot from init ==', wot); } }; }; this function is called from another external scri...

Promising alternatives for javascript framework?

Popular JavaScript frameworks/libraries like jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, and YUI (to name a few of the most popular JavaScript frameworks out there) definitely have a solid foothold in the JavaScript framework arena. But for the more adventurous developers looking for new or alternative frameworks/libraries, there are options like: S...

Possible JavaScript framework version conflicts when using site-wide vs local page scripts.

I assume this would be an issue with any JavaScript framework. I use MooTools on allot of the pages on my site. On some pages the scripts are 2 years old. When a new page needs MooTools I usually download the latest version to avoid any possible hang-ups with past bugs and to make use of any new features. This has worked fine as my old...

Is there any Javascript library that provides drag'n'drop creation/editing of form elements?

I am writing a web application that lets a user create their own forms by dragging and dropping input elements (textfields, textareas, etc.). Currently, the user is able to add / reorder (up or down) / remove form elements, but I need to make them freely draggable. Some time ago I have seen a tool written in Javascript that lets a user...

Textbox value to filter databound ListBox items using Javascript ?

Hi Guys, I have a ListBox which is bound to a list of data items. Now I want the user to be able to filter the items shown in the ListBox based on the search expression typed in the TextBox. For each character typed in the TextBox, the ListBox items should change to show only the items matching the search expression. using Javascript...

Comparing YUI and Ext JS

I've been using Ext JS as my rich-widget toolkit for a while, but I'm thinking of moving to YUI, partly because of the less restrictive license. The component-oriented model used in YUI seems quite similar to the one that I've enjoyed so much in Ext JS, but I'm interested in how deep those similarities are. So I'm interested in feedbac...

How to create a variadic (with variable length argument list) function wrapper in JavaScript

The intention is to build a wrapper to provide a consistent method of calling native functions with variable arity on various script hosts - so that the script could be executed in a browser as well as in the Windows Script Host or other script engines. I am aware of 3 methods of which each one has its own drawbacks. eval() method: fu...

Making a non-trivial Image and Video Gallery with a really nice interface

Short part: I'm starting to build an Image and Video Gallery for our intranet. It's pretty much like an image gallery with video thumbnails that play on click. It's just good to keep that in mind because caching and streaming happen in very different ways there. It will serve to browse our reference database, which will also contain s...