Web Info & Tutorials

February 21st, 2007

AUTOMATED JAVASCRIPT VERTICAL FLIP IMAGE REFLECTION

Automated JavaScript Vertical Flip Image Reflection

Ara Pehlivanian has created a simple reflect.js script that allows you to add reflection to your images using simple JS that adds just one DOM element.

Using Ara's API you can get as simple as:

JAVASCRIPT:
  1.  
  2. var reflections = new ARA.effects.Reflection();
  3. reflections.addImage("myImageID");
  4. reflections.reflect();
  5.  

or more advanced:

JAVASCRIPT:
  1.  
  2. var reflections = new ARA.effects.Reflection();
  3. reflections.addImage("me");
  4. var imgs = [];
  5.         imgs.push(document.getElementById("csarvenWLGreen"));
  6.         imgs.push(document.getElementById("microformats"));
  7. reflections.addImagesRaw(imgs);
  8. reflections.addImagesByClassName("reflect");
  9. reflections.addImagesByClassName("reflect1", {startPoint:"group",alpha:.75,depth:
  10. reflections.reflect();
  11.  

There are a set of examples for you to play with too.

February 21st, 2007

ADOBE ASKS AJAXIANS TO BETA TEST APOLLO

Adobe wants to make Apollo a great environment for Ajax developers.

They were looking to find a bunch of smart JavaScript hackers in the know to get involved in a private Beta of Adobe Apollo, and realised that the Ajaxian community was a great place for them to reach out.

Therefore, if you have an interest in trying out Apollo, and giving honest feedback to the team at Adobe simply send an email to apollobeta@adobe.com with the following information:

  • Your name
  • Email address
  • Why you are interesting in Apollo
February 21st, 2007

AJFORM AND REJAX RELOADED

Brendon Crawford has updated both of his products, AJForm and ReJax.

AJForm:

AJFORM is a JavaScript toolkit which simply submits data from any
given form in an HTML page, then sends the data to any specified
JavaScript function. AJFORM degrades gracefully in every aspect. In
other words, if the browser doesn't support it, the data will be sent
through the form as normal.

New Features:

  • Improved performance support. Able to handle many simulateous
    requests without problem.
  • Added a powerful event handler library for standardizing mouse
    event properties

Rejax

As the first online Regular Expression tester to offer realtime
highlighting and offering more languages than any other online
tester, ReJax continues to be the coolest and easiest to use Regular
Expression tester on the web.

New Features

  • Support for 6 different Regular Expression engines
    1. Javascript
    2. PHP 5 PCRE
    3. PHP 5 POSIX
    4. Ruby
    5. PERL 5
    6. UNIX Shell Patterns
  • Instantaneous realtime pattern matching
  • Global matching support
  • Improved easy to use interface