Category Archives: AJAX

MetaWrap TimeConverter, Build 8

Posted on March 22, 2007 by James McParlane

There Is A New Version Available – Click Here   Update: I just fixed 2 bugs – one handle leak and a bug that could stop it from scanning serial ports. Seems I left in some debug code on both … Continue reading →

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Scrybe – Yet Another Calendar Application – But Its A Very Good Looking One

Posted on October 25, 2006 by James McParlane

http://www.iscrybe.com/cal/index.html The video alone is worth watching just to get an idea of what its possible to do in a browser nowadays. I was hoping to be first to launch something with the “work offline now, sync to server later” … Continue reading →

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Dynamic Resolution Dependent Layout Using JavaScript

Posted on January 28, 2006 by James McParlane

Its a few vowels short of a buzzword, but don’t hold that against it. There is a strong trend at the moment towards dynamic resolution dependent layout via JavaScript, that is the page rearranges the layout of its content via element-wise x,y positioning … Continue reading →

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Why I Still Won't Use The prototype.js JavaScript Library

Posted on January 7, 2006 by James McParlane

I was not prepared for the amount of responses I got to my last article. There really are two camps – and they sit around fires making pointy sticks. The most constructive was from Rob Sanheim with this post, which got me … Continue reading →

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The Latest In The World Of JavaScript – "AJAX, Web 2.0 and the World Of Tomorrow"

Posted on October 12, 2005 by James McParlane

This Is Not The JavaScript Our Parents Would Know In the bad old days JavaScript was not compatible across browsers. JavaScript development was painful, frustrating and costly. More recently JavaScript has become the poster-child for effective web programing and the … Continue reading →

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