Tutorials Page 149

• By David WalshApril 28, 2011

  Better onChange with Dijit’s intermediateChanges

  One of the things I love about Dojo's UI framework, Dijit, is that its widgets provide loads of functionality within one property that would take a bit of Javascript jousting to create on its own.  One of those widget properties is intermediateChanges.  intermediateChanges is a boolean...

• By David WalshApril 27, 2011

  Google PageRank PHP Class

  While developers and designers can debate about the important of different search engine optimizations strategies, one metric that simply can't be argued is a website's Google PageRank, or its importance in driving traffic to the site.  Achieving a better PageRank was a consideration when redesigning this...

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• By David WalshApril 25, 2011

  Background Animations Using MooTools

  One of the sweet effects made easy by JavaScript frameworks like MooTools and jQuery is animation. I ran across this great jQuery tutorial that walks you through animating a background image of a page. Here's a quick MooTools code snippet that...

• By David WalshApril 25, 2011

  Facebook Open Graph META Tags

  It's no secret that Facebook has become a major traffic driver for all types of websites.  Nowadays even large corporations steer consumers toward their Facebook pages instead of the corporate websites directly.  And of course there are Facebook "Like" and "Recommend" widgets on every website.  One...

• By David WalshApril 20, 2011

  Creating Mobile Web Applications with dojox.mobile

  I recently was asked to study the Dojo Toolkit's budding mobile solution, dojox.mobile, and create a basic web application using the tools provided.  I hadn't heard of dojox.mobile before but was very excited at the prospect of becoming a skilled mobile developer and maybe...

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• By David WalshApril 18, 2011

  Create a Clearable TextBox with the Dojo Toolkit

  Usability is a key feature when creating user interfaces;  it's all in the details.  I was recently using my iPhone and it dawned on my how awesome the "x" icon is in its input elements.  No holding the delete key down.  No pressing it a...

• By David WalshApril 5, 2011

  iPhone-Style Password Inputs with Appcelerator Titanium

  Most mobile applications ask you for your credential so that they may verify your account and pull information via an API.  My mobile application is no different.  The problem I ran into was that I couldn't find the method by which to emulate the iPhone's password...

• By David WalshApril 4, 2011

  Convert XML to JSON with JavaScript

  If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I've been working on a super top secret mobile application using Appcelerator Titanium.  The experience has been great:  using JavaScript to create easy to write, easy to test, native mobile apps has been fun.  My...

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• By David WalshMarch 30, 2011

  Hide the Address Bar within Mobile Web Applications

  With both iOS and Android-driven devices using WebKit as their browser's rendering engine, web developers have many advantages: A rendering engine with capable of flawless CSS animations A rendering engine that's fast...very fast A rendering engine that's modern and forward-thinking These advantages allow us to create web apps within that...

• By David WalshMarch 28, 2011

  Create a Spinning, Zooming Effect with CSS3

  In case you weren't aware, CSS animations are awesome.  They're smooth, less taxing than JavaScript, and are the future of node animation within browsers.  Dojo's mobile solution, dojox.mobile, uses CSS animations instead of JavaScript to lighten the application's JavaScript footprint.  One of my favorite effects...