Ajax DHTML 3d Spinner Using GWT (Google Web Toolkit)

I have made a 3D spinner effect in flash before, but i really surprised when Dietrich Kappe the author of pathfinder agileajax announce the same effect in pure DHTML format.

The widget uses projection geometry (a view point and calculating image size and position based on where lines pass through the z=0 plane) and a little bit of trigonometry for the circle. Also, zIndex is set based on an object’s z coordinate. At this stage the implementation definitely performs differently based on machine horsepower and browser platform. It performs pretty well on IE7 and Safari 3, less well on Firefox.

This effect done using GWT (Google Web Toolkit) 1.5, look at the demo here. Dietrich still working on this library to add more functionality on this effect like drag and drop, response to clicks on images, the ability to spin arbitrary DOM elements, also to have CSS to control the style.

ajax auto suggest class with CSS, JSON, XML Support

ajax auto suggest class from brandspankingnew with customizable CSS to control the visualization, JSON, XML, Callback function, supported, able to add custom information, and custom message for no result returned.

The AutoSuggest class adds a popdown menu of suggested values to a text field. The user can either click directly on a suggestion to enter it into the field, or navigate the list using the up and down arrow keys, selecting a value using the tab key. The values for the suggestion list are to provided as XML (by a PHP script, or similar).

JSloader ondemand library new way of organizing javascript library

Jsloader was developed by Dov Katz, Imran Ahmad and Aaron Satlow as part of a hosted Enterprise AJAX solution, but what the hell is jsloader? is it just like other hundreds javascript library? well the developer themselves explained what actually jsloader “the on demand javascript library” is.

JSLoader is a dead-simple, non-intrusive “Javascript-on-demand” packaging convention which helps developers and the internet community rapidly develop and prototype applications without the headache of figuring out the witches’ brew of files that need to be copied, included, etc.

It is more about re-organizing AJAX libraries in a consistent and predictable manner, so we can load the library programmaticaly
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Flickr Hack The JSON Way get flickr photo without flickr API

Christian Heilmann has written an article about how to get Flickr photos into JavaScript solutions without having to resort to using the full API. This article was part of his presentation at the Open Hack Day in India and has been featured in ajaxian, but christian has put a note in using this method

As this is a hack you will only get the latest 20 photos, if you need more detailed data like restricted to sets or more at once you’ll need to resort to the flickr API.

Here are the code snippets:
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