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Weekend Links – PHP / CSS Graphs, Ext 2.0 Preview, YUI Image Loader, Firefox, and Goodbye Netscape

By David Walsh on September 8, 2007

It was a pretty exciting week in the coding world.

Vertical Bar Graph Using PHP and CSS

This is an impressive system of building 3D graphs using simple CSS and PHP.
http://www.terrill.ca/design/vertical_bar_graphs/

Ext 2.0: A Preview

Version 2 of the Ext JavaScript framework looks very impressive. Examples include Scrolling Tabs, Column Tree, and Web Desktop. I've never used this framework but it looks intriguing.
http://extjs.com/blog/2007/09/06/ext-20-a-preview/

Yahoo YUI Image Loader Utility

I think this is one of the most ingenious bandwidth and load-time saving ideas I've heard in a long time. Essentially, this quick JavaScript script prevents images from being loaded until they are in/near the viewport. This should be a browser feature but Yahoo does a great job with this JavaScript.
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/imageloader/

Four Hundred Million Firefox Downloads

Unfortunately Internet Explorer still has too much of a grip.
http://www.spreadfirefox.com/node/28337

Netscape's Digg Clone is Kaput

Netscape's social news portal never picked up any steam. It was poorly designed and feuded publicly with Digg from the start.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/netscape-digg-clone-is-kaput/

Recent Features

By David WalshFebruary 6, 2013
6 Things You Didn’t Know About Firefox OS
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...
By David WalshSeptember 19, 2011
Introducing MooTools Templated
One major problem with creating UI components with the MooTools JavaScript framework is that there isn't a great way of allowing customization of template and ease of node creation. As of today, there are two ways of creating: new Element Madness The first way to create UI-driven...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshDecember 4, 2008
MooTools dwCheckboxes Plugin
Update / Fix: The checkboxes will no longer toggle when the "mouseup" event doesn't occur on a checkbox. Every morning I wake up to a bunch of emails in my Gmail inbox that I delete without reading. I end up clicking so many damn checkboxes...
By David WalshJune 15, 2009
Adding Events to Adding Events in MooTools
Note: This post has been updated. One of my huge web peeves is when an element has click events attached to it but the element doesn't sport the "pointer" cursor. I mean how the hell is the user supposed to know they can/should click on...

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