Archive for the ‘JavaScript Solutions’ Category

A Mac OS X-style Dock In JavaScript April 29th, 2009
by Munazza

Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is renowned for its fluid graphical effects. One impressive feature is the dock’s ‘fish-eye’ effect, whereby icons expand and contract as the mouse moves over them. Achieving this effect in JavaScript is difficult, but the MacStyleDock function allows this feature to be implemented easily. An example is shown below [...]

BarackSlideshow – Lightweight slideshow script April 29th, 2009
by Munazza

I guess pretty much everyone has seen Barack Obama’s website by now, which is clearly one of the prettiest of all candidates we’ve heard of so far. Not only is it an example of state-of-the-art design, but it’s also nice to navigate and interact with. The creation I took my previous class (SlideList), and made [...]

AJAX powered shopping cart April 28th, 2009
by Munazza

One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and [...]

Better Zebra Tables March 15th, 2009
by Munazza

In large tables it’s often hard to focus on one row, making it hard to extract data from the table. There are various scripts (client–side as well as server–side) floating around the net that provide the ability to style odd/even table–rows to aid readability of tabular data. If you’re not interested in how this works [...]