Development of Ajax Web Widget
by Roshan Bhattarai |
February 2009 | AJAX
This is a 5 part mini series by Roshan Bhattarai, covering basics of Widget, development of Wiki seek Widget, Pop-up Image Widget, RSS Web Widget, and Delicious Tagometer Widget.
The web is becoming more flexible and dynamic from day to day. The service and functionality provided by a particular website is not limited to itself. We can extend it to other websites by placing a few lines of code in their web pages called Widget.
In this article we will explore the technologies that go behind making a Widget and understand its working.
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Dan Wellman | February 2009 | Open Source PHP Web Development
In the previous part of the article, we learned how to create a basic dialog, work with dialog's properties and callbacks, and add buttons to the dialog.
In this final part of the article by Dan Wellman, we will learn how to enable animations for the dialog and how to control the dialog programmatically.
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Dan Wellman | February 2009 | Content Management Open Source PHP
Traditionally, the way to display a brief message or ask a visitor a question would be to use one of JavaScript's native dialog boxes, such as alert or confirm, or to open a new web page with a predefined size, styled to look like a dialog box. Unfortunately, neither of these methods is particularly flexible or engaging. For each problem they solve, several new problems are usually introduced.
Thankfully, the days of resorting to either of the aforementioned techniques are over. We can now make use of the advanced functionality and rich features of the jQuery UI dialog widget. The dialog widget lets us display a message, supplemental content (like images or text), or even interactive content (like forms). It's also very easy to add buttons, such as simple ok and cancel buttons, to the dialog and define callback functions for them in order to react to their being clicked.
In this first part of the article by Dan Wellman, we will complete the following tasks:
- Create a basic dialog
- Create a custom dialog skin
- Work with dialog's properties
- Enable modality and see an overlay
- Add buttons to the dialog
- Work with dialog's callbacks.
jQuery Embedded in Dojo Accordion Panes
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Jayaram Krishnaswamy | February 2009 | Open Source PHP Web Development
The Dojo Toolkit is an Open source JavaScript toolkit which can be used to develop stunning web pages. I liked it from the very beginning. It is very fast and provides lots of tools to work with DOM, Animations, AJAX etc. The base code is lightweight (~26 KB). jQuery, even lighter, also Open Source, is the write-less, do-more, cross-browser, CSS3 compliant JavaScript library. In this article by Dr. Jayaram Krishnaswamy, we will experiment embedding jQuery in DOJO 123's Accordion widget and try to identify if there exists any cross-code interactions. The code is also tested for cross-browser suitability.
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Darci Hanning | February 2009 | Content Management Open Source Web Development
Essential capabilities of content management are the abilities to view the 'change history' of a content item, to compare various versions with one another, and optionally, to revert to a previous version of a content item.
In this article, Darci Hanning discusses how to use versioning in Plone to examine the history of changes made to a content item, to preview and compare versions, and to revert to a previous version of a content item.
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