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- jQuery.com redesigned with a Rock StarYesterday
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When I was doing an interview with John Resig for the Open Web Podcast, he mentioned that the redesign of jQuery.com had a lot of people talking, and it seems like people have strong feelings about the Rock Star for whatever reason.
Ignoring the style, the redesign is more than just that:
The entirety of the site has a new layout. With drastically improved multi-layer navigation and a standardized sidebar it should become much easier to navigate the individual portions of the site.
You should probably wear a hard hat while exploring the interior pages - font sizes, spacing, and colors are all in need of tweaking, which will be handled over the upcoming week (it’s fun working against Trac, Wordpress, Drupal, and Mediawiki simultaneously). - GWT 1.5 final release is shipped and out the doorYesterday
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I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete:
GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you’re counting. We’re also happy that one of those is issue 168, our most-requested feature, Support for Java 5.
The high level new feature sets are:
- Java 5 language support and enhanced JRE emulation
- Performance optimizations and easier JavaScript interop
- Prettier widgets, better DOM, accessibility, and bi-di
You can see a lot of this at work in the showcase area. There you will see all of the widgets and examples that come out of the box, and the community has developed even more for you. In particular, Ray Cromwell has some great real world examples that he shares in his book and talk.
Download GWT and take a look.
- qooxdoo 0.8: new GUI toolkit and tool chainYesterday
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qooxdoo 0.8 has been released and it appears to have a lot of big changes. Andreas Ecker told us a little about it:
While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version number
over the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular the
UI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were improved
substantially.qooxdoo 0.8 features a complete rewrite of the GUI toolkit. It is state-of-the-art and supports all major browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, Opera). The GUI toolkit has a layered architecture: on-top of a low-level DOM-oriented layer (that might be used as a separate library), it includes a large set of widgets and layout managers (perfect for building RIAs). Online demos are available.
Users can very easily implement additional custom widgets or layouts to fit their individual needs. Theming of widgets continues to be independent from the widget code itself, and now allows for virtually
unlimited styling possibilities, e.g. rounded borders, gradients, shadows. While qooxdoo comes with two new attractive themes, it is also easy to create custom themes, without any CSS knowledge required.Besides the exciting changes in the
- Degrading script tags for fun and profitYesterday
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John Resig posted on degrading script tags and adding functionality to <script> so you can add a src attribute and a body of code that will be executed one the external script loaded error free:
JAVASCRIPT:-
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<script src="some-lib.js">
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var foo = use_some_lib();
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foo.do.stuff();
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</script>
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To make this all work, John shows us a jquery aware version that detects loading and such:
JAVASCRIPT:-
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(function(){
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var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName("script");
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var curScript = scripts[ scripts.length - 1 ];
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if ( curScript.executed )
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return;
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- The Ajax Experience Framework SummitYesterday
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We talked a few months ago about something new we're doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the "Framework Summit." Basically, we're providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public.
Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have created their agendas for their events for their events:
Dojo Developer Day:
- Welcome, Introductions (Alex Russell, Dylan Schiemann)
- Tutorial - Progressive Dojo (Peter Higgins)
- Presentation - DojoX GFX and FX (Matthew Russell)
- Presentation - Secrets of DojoX (Tom Trenka)
- Tutorial - Getting going ... Zend + Dojo (Matthew O'Phinney)
- Tutorial - Dijit Layouts In and Out (Nikolai Onken)
- Tutorial - Reusable code, Widgeting (Peter Higgins)
- Community - Getting Involved (Peter Higgins, Nikolai Onken)
- Lightning Demos - What do you have? Show us.Prototype Developer Day
- Welcome, Introductions (Prototype Core members)
- Contributing docs (Christophe Porteneuve)
- Contributing code (Andrew Dupont)
- Prototype & Performance
- Extended Q&A (Prototype Core members)jQuery Developer Day
- State of jQuery (Rey Bango)
- Progressively Enhancing the User Experience Using jQuery (Karl Swedberg)
- An In-Depth Look at jQuery UI (Paul B