Showing posts with label javascript. Show all posts
Showing posts with label javascript. Show all posts

January 28, 2008

JavaScript Interactive online book - Test and modify the code examples from the book

As we know JavaScript is a scripting language designed to be easy to learn and use even by novices. Nowadays it is extensively used in composing various parts of web applications. We should have some basic idea regarding JavaScript coding techniques to customize certain aspects of JavaScript based components used in our web site or standalone programs.
In order to learn JavaScript or to solve a specific coding related problem, there are many resources available over the Internet for free, like tutorials, books, code examples and complete applications with full source code.

Here is an interactive online book titled “Eloquent JavaScript” - allows users to test and modify the code examples from the book itself or to create new ones.

The content of the book provides many JavaScript examples that come to demonstrate various definitions of concepts regarding variables flow control, data structures (objects and arrays), errors handling, OOP (object oriented programming) and more.
License: Free
Track - Softpedia

September 4, 2007

MooPix for Flickr API

Flickr allows programmers to access certain functionality from outside. That is, by creating an Application Programming Interface (API), Flickr has enabled all kinds of cool-kid; buzzword-compliant ways to show photos without actually going to Flickr.

Most of the Flickr API Kits is that they require you to have your own server running such as PHP, Ruby, Java, or Cold Fusion or a copy of Flash.

With MooPix you can build a simple DHTML page without server dependencies. Instead of server-side code, MooPix uses JavaScript to talk to Flickr in the language of JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). MooPix itself basically just formats your request creates the request, and then it's up to you to decide what to do with the response.

Requirement - Mootools 1.1+

Run - an easy way to animate web content

Run (Universal animation framework) is a JavaScript based animation framework that is working in any current browser.

In opposite to other frameworks, Run is the easy and basic way to animate web content.

Following are some facts which make it standing out from other frameworks - Easy and intelligent CSS support, Event listeners, Easy syntax, Well-documented, Compatible to all current browsers (Firefox 1+, Opera 8+, Internet Explorer 5.5+, Safari 2+ and Konqueror).

August 7, 2007

Add masks to images on your Web Pages

Edge.js allows you to add individual masks to images on your Web Pages. You don’t need to spend time in an image editor creating an image effect. Download edge.js and include it into your webpage. just add a class="edges" to the image to get the masked picture edges on your web page.

It works in all the major browsers - Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+, Safari and IE6+ (Opera do not support printing of canvas). In older browsers, the script degrades and your visitors won't notice a thing.

For detailed information visit at: www. netzgesta.de/edge/

August 5, 2007

A drawing tool for your forms

InputDraw is a cross-browser, fast, simple to integrate widget to use in your forms as a drawing tool. It allows your users draw in a form field and enable a new and fun ways of interaction with sites and new creative ideas. It can be used in funny websites and medical web applications.

It uses SVG as a describing language of drawing. Being a standard, SVG can afterwards be use be a large number of applications, widgets and libraries.

In order to use this widget, you don’t need to be a programmer or even know any web programming language like PHP, Ruby, Python, .net, Java, Smalltalk, etc. you only need to know some html, what a form is and JavaScript command to make it work.

InputDraw uses flash technology so almost everyone can use it and lets you saving the results as SVG for you to include in a form field.

For more and download visit InputDraw