Cabel Sasser, co-founder of Panic Inc., just announced the release of FancyZoom v1.1. FanzyZoom is a very cool “lightbox-esque” library that zooms, fades in and out, in the same way that Quick Look works on Mac OS X.
Django Templates in Javascript
Posted on February 07, 2008
Neil Roberts implemented the Django template language in JavaScript. Pretty cool stuff. Find out more at Ajaxian
Javascript Code Highlighter
Posted on January 03, 2008
I’ve had a lot of people ask me about the syntax highlighting used on this blog site. When I was setting up this blog there were a couple of different solutions that involved plugins to Mephisto. Instead of going that route I figured there must be a javascript based solution. I found this javascript based highlighter and began to use it effortlessly. It’s not the most efficient thing but it does work well. The only modifications I made was to to the syntax coloring file to make it look more like the Vibrant Ink theme in Textmate.
YUI 2.4.0 Released
Posted on December 06, 2007
I was very excited to see that Yahoo! released version 2.4.0 of the YUI javascript framework. I’m especially excited about the selector stuff as well as the Get Utility. Get Utility is something I’ve been waiting for a long time.
I began working with YUI very early on in the release cycle. For me it was most attractive because t seemed very stable and polished and the docs have just been tremendous every step of the way. There were other frameworks at the time but they were either horribly lacking in good documentation or seemed to be a collection point for everything and anything without any real focus on stability.
The past few months I’ve been really getting into JQuery because it’s simple and intuitive interface, lightweight footprint, and excellent documentation. Although, with these recent additions to YUI I may just have to consider going back for the development of my largish, yet to be named, project I’m working on.
Yahoo! Hosts YUI Files
Posted on February 28, 2007
To coincide with the new release of Yahoo YUI Javascript library, and one year anniversary, Yahoo! has decided to provide hosting of all the YUI files, include old versions of the Javascript libraries. This means high reliability and increased speed from serving up compressed versions of the files to all users.
