4 widgets Entries
- 03-05-2009 Gracefully Degrading Widgets, Part 2: Navbars & jQuery Plugins I recently met up with a friend and former coworker to help him ramp up his jQuery skills quickly. In the process I got to play with a few things I hadn’t bothered to pick up previously myself! First of these was Google’s Ajax Libraries API. While worthless for when you need to be offline [...]
- 02-14-2008 Gracefully Degrading Widgets, Part 1: Tabs Over the next few posts here on thyncology, I’ll describe how to create the front-end code (XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript) for a set of reusable, effects-laden widgets. The tutorials are aimed at developers/designers who are well-versed enough to understand the CSS/XHTML used here, but programmers of any level (including beginners) can benefit from the JavaScript [...]
- 10-03-2007 Hooyip Choices, Poppy’s Passing So we’ve got the basic schema and business logic behind validation of and connection between models in Hooyip. After a few more minor details we’ll be ready to build the front-end in earnest. Those choices are basically regarding ID3 handling and file uploads. Aside from picking from the numerous .swf-based JavaScript uploader widgets (see here, [...]
- 04-24-2007 Cricket Widget Update So, per Yahoo! Widgets user hulmem’s suggestion, I’ve added a size preference to the CricketChirp widget, as well as adding a custom dock icon. (the cricket, of course) Enjoy! CricketChirp (link directs to Yahoo! Widgets now)