Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

Here are a few screenshots of my Complex Example rendering on an iPhone.

I have been working on some more AIR apps with YUI and figured I would share them here. The first one is a port of my YUI CSS GridBuilder. The addition to this little app is the ability to save the layout to a file.

The second app, is an offline doc browser for the YUI docs.

Hope you enjoy them

With the release of Adobe AIR 1.0 today, I figured I should package a sample AIR app using the latest YUI release. And what better example of showing YUI 2.5.0 in all it’s glory than to convert my Complex Application example.

This example contains a patched version of the YUI Editor that makes the Editor render inside of AIR. The Editor contained in this app is not a fully functional version of the Editor Control (I am still working on that).

You can download and install the AIR app from here.

So you can see what I have done, I have included the source for the AIR app here.

It seems that my CSS Grid Builder has hit the news again. Dion Almaer over at Ajaxian has posted an article linking to an article that Jeremy Zawodny did about my Grid Builder

Who would have thought that it’s still getting all this love when I wrote it back in Nov of 2006.

I just updated my YUI Rich Text Editor plugin for the 2.4.0 release. I have fixed a couple of issues and checked to make sure the plugin works on WordPress 2.3x as well as the 2.2x version.

I also changed out the comments Editor with the new SimpleEditor Control. It will help with those concerned about page weight.

Enjoy

Kent Brewster has released a nifty little hack to let you build something like this:

Link to this Ransomiz

This thing is awesome!!

I’ve been a bit busy lately and have neglected my site, so I have upgraded WordPress to the latest release.. Plus I have changed up come colors, changed the Twitter badge and added MyAvatar support to my comment pages..

Drop me a note if you see any funky after effects of the changes..

Dav

Hey all –

I started playing with Apples DashCode beta and I thought it would be handy to port my GridBuilder to it.. So download it, play around with it & shoot me your thoughts/comments/curses

Check it out the screen shots here
Download the widget here.

This is my first attempt at a Dashboard widget, so please be gentle

Notes: Right now it doesn’t support the custom doc type for dynamic doc sizing, it only supports the built in #doc, #doc2 & #doc3.

It also defaults to a full view of the Widget. I would like to change it so that you have to click a button to expand the full widget, as it is it takes up a fair bit of screen real estate.

The Yahoo! Developer Network released a new set of API’s today. They opened up the “Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs“. This set of API’s is possibly the best set to ever be released..

Back in Dec I posted about my latest win at Hack Day (you can read about that here). Well, now that the API’s have been released, I can show you my winning hack

Note: This hack was built in around 12 hours and it has not been tested! The code is messy and could have been done better, but I wanted to get as much done as possible so I hacked it quite a bit!

So now on to the hack…

My hack was called “CandyGram Lite” and it was an attempt to rebuild the new Yahoo! Mail Beta with semantic markup and using the YUI tools. Not only to make it faster, but to make it work in all Grade A Browsers.

Enough of the yapping, here’s the link:
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/cglite/

You will need a Yahoo! Mail account in order to use it. If you don’t have one, get one here.

Please be gentle on my server

Hey All –

I have uploaded the examples that I talked about in my presentation at the Yahoo! F2E Summit on Wed.

If you want to dive in, you can see the examples here:
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/

Now I’ll try to explain them a little here:

1. Panel Tricks
This is a simple mouseover example with a panel.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example1/

Using the same technique, we use it to build more info bubbles for form inputs.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example1/solution2.php

2. AutoComplete Trickery
This example shows “another way to look” at the AutoComplete widget.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example2/

3. TabView Hacks
This example shows how to make an animated TabView in about 10 minutes.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example3/

This example takes the code from the previous and turns a normal TabView widget into a nifty “Accordion” widget.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example3/solution2.php

4. Animation Hacks
These are just too kewl, you really need to see them. So take a look, read the source and see if you can tell what’s going on
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example4/
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example4/solution.php

The purpose of my talk was to let everyone know that:
“You can’t judge a Widget by it’s name”

It’s a hard point to get across, I may write more about it later (if people want to know).

Hope you enjoy the examples..