December 3rd, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
Most of us are familiar with Firebug, the powerful & straightforward debugging extension for firefox. You may not be familiar with it’s little brother, Firebug lite.
Firebug lite is exactly as it sounds, a light-weight firebug console for any browser. Simply include the firebug script tag in any page and you’re console.log(); operations will work on any browser (IE, Safari, Firefox & More). What’s more, if Firebug is installed in Firefox, it logs to the full Firebug console. You can pull up the console by hitting F12 or CTRL + SHIFT + L at any time.
Don’t want to bother with hitting F12 every time you reload? Just attach a debug=”true” attribute to the html element (<html debug=”true”> ).
But wait, There’s more.
Firebug Lite has an even littler sibling called Firebugx. Replace the call to firebug.js with a call to firebugx.js and you neutralize any console calls in your code without having to hunt them down or find / replace. Something that would have saved me a whole heap of trouble with the last BLT deployment.
Download Firebug Lite at:
http://www.getfirebug.com/lite.html
November 27th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
What is it:
FastInit is a small JS file to create a Faster window.onload. It implements a powerful onload function queue that fires once teh dom is ready and before all images have been downloaded. Ideally, this results in a dramatic decrease in a pages initialization time.
How it Works
You any functions to the queue by using the FastInit.addOnLoad( function 1, function 2, …); function. All functions are fired in the order in which they were added to the queue. addOnLoad can be called as many times as is necessary. It fails gracefully to standard handlers if the browser doesn’t support the faster methods.
Requirements
As of version 1.4.1 the need for Prototype has been removed freeing the code for use in any project where a speedy onload method is needed.
Check it out here:
http://tetlaw.id.au/view/javascript/fastinit
November 15th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
Following in his tradition of delivering, simple, easy to use widgets for beautiful design driven development, Brian McAllister has released this spectacular table widget.
Here are some of the key features:
- Unobtrusive and nameSpace friendly
- Powerful Zebra Striping Support
- Supports row hover and column hover effects
- The “current” cell can be highlighted
- Multiple Rows can be selected / highlighted
- Intelligently deals with rowSpans and ColSpans
- Table rows can be selected “onclick” with callback support
- Extremely fast & responsive
Check it out at http://www.frequency-decoder.com/2007/11/15/unobtrusive-table-actions-script
November 8th, 2007 Posted by Don Albrecht
The SmartClient library is based on databinding & presentation widgets (Similar to Spry). And is being released as an OpenSource LGPL product.
The LGPL Version is feature complete for client side development but lacks the presentation server & visual IDE included in the full premium version.
Check it out online here:
http://www.smartclient.com/product/download.jsp
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