Posted on November 23, 2007
I have been coding JavaScript with YUI for quite a while now. Still, I am consistently confused by various callback functions in YUI. The thing that troubled me the most was the parameters those callback functions take. The API documentation does not provide any information about this. For example, if you go to YAHOO.util.Event, under [...]
Posted on November 20, 2007
When coding JavaScript that requires a lot of DOM manipulations, jQuery no doubt is my favorite JavaScript framework. Surprisingly, with file size of 26KB (packed distribution), it supports Ajax along with many other handy features.
If you've previously used jQuery's Ajax API, you probably noticed that there's a jQuery.getJSON() function call that grabs the server [...]
Posted on September 4, 2007
YUI is a truly amazing framework for those who are writing Ajax applications. Its JavaScript widgets allow programmer to create richly interactive UI components with ease. However, these UI widgets are not very useful unless the end result of the interaction can be saved to the server side. Hence YUI has added Ajax support to [...]
Posted on August 17, 2007
Note: This script has been updaed
In the previous article of YUI based lightbox, I've shown you how easily one can create a lightbox using YUI's Dialog class. Although the lightbox we created in the previous article has the basic skeleton of a lightbox, it still lacks some crucial features and it looks quite ugly. Luckily [...]
Posted on August 1, 2007
Writing JavaScript is easy, but debugging is not due to the very limited debugging functionalities provided by the JavaScript language itself. One of such limitations is that there's no effective way to display debugging message other than embedding a bunch alert boxes or a million lines of document.write in the JavaScript code. Fortunately, external debuggers [...]
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