Weekend Links – Google Maps API, HeatMap API, googleDrive, MooTools Forms, jQuery Sparklines, Firebug
Density Map Tutorial -- Prototype, Google Maps API, and the HeatMap API
HeatMap allows you to create heat maps on top of Google Analytics. A very impressive script that requires little code from the developer.
http://jeffreybarke.net/2008/07/density-map-tutorial/
googleDrive
googleDrive is a script written by PhatFusion. Why drag the Google Map when you can just drive around it? Grand Theft Google!
http://phatfusion.net/googleDrive/
10 MooTools Scripts For Enhancing Your Web Forms
Web forms can be bland and boring but they don't have to be! Here's a list of MooTools scripts that will make your forms pop!
http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/web-development/10-mootools-scripts-for-enhancing-your-html-forms-28
jQuery Sparklines
Sparklines is a mini chart-building script built with jQuery. The charts aren't anything too special but they're simple and effective.
http://www.omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/
John Resig -- Firebuggin'
John Resig as joined the Firebug team at Firefox! Glorious!
http://ejohn.org/blog/firebuggin/
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Introduction
For quite a long time now websites with the so called "parallax" effect have been really popular.
In case you have not heard of this effect, it basically includes different layers of images that are moving in different directions or with different speed. This leads to a...
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Firefox OS is all over the tech news and for good reason: Mozilla's finally given web developers the platform that they need to create apps the way they've been creating them for years -- with CSS, HTML, and JavaScript. Firefox OS has been rapidly improving...
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As we move toward more true web applications, our JavaScript APIs are doing their best to keep up. One very simple but useful new JavaScript API is the Fullscreen API. The Fullscreen API provides a programmatic way to request fullscreen display from the user, and exit...
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If you troll page markup like me, you've no doubt seen the use of data URI's within image src attributes. Instead of providing a traditional address to the image, the image file data is base64-encoded and stuffed within the src attribute. Doing so saves...