Weekend Links – Google Maps API, HeatMap API, googleDrive, MooTools Forms, jQuery Sparklines, Firebug

By David Walsh on July 19, 2008

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.

googleDrive is a script written by PhatFusion. Why drag the Google Map when you can just drive around it? Grand Theft Google!

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!

Sparklines is a mini chart-building script built with jQuery. The charts aren't anything too special but they're simple and effective.

John Resig as joined the Firebug team at Firefox! Glorious!

By David WalshJune 11, 2013
Serving Fonts from CDN
For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
By David WalshAugust 29, 2011
Create Namespaced Classes with MooTools
MooTools has always gotten a bit of grief for not inherently using and standardizing namespaced-based JavaScript classes like the Dojo Toolkit does. Many developers create their classes as globals which is generally frowned up. I mostly disagree with that stance, but each to their own. In any event...

By David WalshDecember 23, 2013
Fullscreen API
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...
By David WalshMay 20, 2010
Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...