Tag Archives: ExtJS

Rethinking JavaScript Grids and DataTables

By Zach Leatherman | Published: April 13, 2008
In the world of front end engineering, one must consider the end-user of the interface first, and above all other things. The priorities should not start with development ease, nor external library preference. The priorities should start with the needs of the consumer of your end product. Evolution of your engineering skill is also a [...]
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Write More Efficient Javascript in YUI with CSS Selectors

By Zach Leatherman | Published: September 3, 2007
This is an updated version of a previous article entitled Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI for the new version of YAHOO.util.Dom included with YUI 2.3.0 as well as including support for passing context nodes into Dom functions. Here we are again. I just love those CSS Selectors. If you haven’t read Part One of [...]
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Using DOM Query Libraries in YUI

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 30, 2007
Recently, I posted the top 8 things I thought the YUI Library needed to be a top tier JavaScript library again. One of those things included a CSS Selector DOM Querying class. Use one of these babies for awhile, and you’ll never be able to code without it again. They’re amazingly useful and will shorten [...]
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JavaScript Frameworks and JSF

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 10, 2007
You’re programming a new web application using JSF, maybe with Facelets, maybe without. Which client-side JavaScript framework is going to work with it’s unstandardized method of assigning ID attributes to it’s elements? Here is an example of a JSF file: <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" prefix="h" %> <%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" prefix="f" %> <html> <body> <f:view> <h:form id="myForm"> [...]
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DOMDom, easy DOM Element Creation

By Zach Leatherman | Published: July 7, 2007
Generally when approaching a complex problem involving web programming in JavaScript, the first question I ask myself is ‘What would Jesus do?’ As much as I am entertained by a mental picture of Mr. Jesus himself sitting on his Jesux Distro appending children (and parents) into his DOM, I am instead distracted by an intense [...]
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Wake up to YouTube on my Internet Alarm Clock

By Zach Leatherman | Published: June 18, 2007
Update: Try the new ALARMd 2 Beta, with Google Calendar integration and offline Youtube caching. Did you take your contacts out last night and you can’t see the time on your alarm clock from all the way across the room? I’m here to calm your fears. Enter ALARMD, the Internet Alarm Clock. Wake up to [...]
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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, I looked [...]
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Namespaces in Ext DomQuery

By Zach Leatherman | Published: March 6, 2007
Do you want to use custom attributes in your XHTML? Do you use the YUI Library and Jack Slocum’s wonderful DomQuery selector engine? If you want to select attribute nodes with a namespace in your XHTML, DomQuery does not support namespaces as an option to do so. But by adding a small snippet of code [...]
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