Monthly Archives: April 2007

YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 30, 2007
The DataTable/Grid Component, the ball and chain of GUI components. It doesn’t let you go out and instantiate beers to create a inebriated subclass of yourself with your friends on Friday night. It makes you do household garbage collection during the last minute of your favorite sporting event. And you’d think it [...]
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I-Frame Shims or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 24, 2007
So again, I show up late to the party. IE7 is already out, but my target customers are still using IE6. So today, boys and girls, we’re going to discover the magical world of using I-Frame shims to hide those bleeding heart select boxes from showing through our layered elements. Typically, when creating an [...]
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Twitter is Polluting the Search Space.

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 23, 2007
I don’t have a problem with Twitter. I can ignore the “internet enthusiasts” that go crazy over a simple CRUD/database entertainment website, thinly veild as the next big social evolution of the internet. I can’t help but feel that this is just a text-based version of the web-cam phase that the internet went [...]
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JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 18, 2007
Download FirebugCodeCoverage-0.1.xpi Recently, I’ve become interested in client side automated testing tools. When I found the Selenium plug-in for Firefox, I was blown away. I can record actions in my browser and play them back! No more manual testing of JavaScript code! Researching a little bit more about automated testing tools led to the [...]
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Google Using YUI Grids CSS

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 5, 2007
Head over to the Google Homepage. Log In using your Google Account. Make sure you’re at your Personalized Homepage. Take a look at the source CSS file ig.css included on the page. There are a few peculiar lines of code that I recognized from another source, the Yahoo User Interface Grids [...]
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Problems with YUI DataTable

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 4, 2007
If you have read anything I’ve written before or know me at all, you know that my go-to JavaScript library is the one and only YUI. So obviously, when I was looking around for a Grid (or as YUI jargon goes, a DataTable), naturally I’m going to turn to YUI compatible components. First, [...]
Posted in CSS, Interface Design, JavaScript, Reviews | Tagged , , , | 27 Comments