Dajax ajax library for django

Dajax is an easy to use ajax library for django inspired by php xajax library. Dajax allow django developers to integrate ajax functionality directly from their django application. The client side part is rely on prototype js library but intend to have support for other javascipts library in the future . Lincensed under new BSD License.

Check out the links: download, installation instructions, available settings.

Prism Firefox Extension, bring your web apps to the desktop

We have tweetdeck, twhirl and few more other out there to bring our favourite social network functionality to the desktop, but do you want to bring any of your favourite website into your desktop like gmail or youtube? if you do, this news is for you. Mozilla has released the version 1.0 of prism firefox extension. It is an extension for firefox which allow you to transform your favourite web application to the desktop ones.

• Access web apps from system taskbar or dock, Prism apps run directly on your desktop and can be accessed just like any other application
• Rock solid web app stability, Prism apps run separately from the browser, so they stay upeven if your browser doesn’t
• System tray icon and dock badges, On Windows, the system tray icon can be changed to give information about application

There are two ways to use Prism, A Firefox extension or a standalone application. For Prism Firefox Extension, Once you have installed the extension and restarted the browser, you can turn any web site into a Prism application by choosing “Create Application for this Website” in the Tools menu. Standalone Prism Application, download and running the app, then simply fiill out the URL of the website you want to turn into an application, give it a name and select where you want the shortcut to be created, then click OK, and you done

Cufon text replacement with canvas and VML

For web designers among you who have been using sIFR, facelift or other image replacement techniques, and has facing problems in particular browser then you may need to try Cufon, a fast text replacement with canvas and VML.

Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set and have been met:

1. No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client
2. Compatibility – it has to work on every major browser on the market
3. Ease of use – no or near-zero configuration needed for standard use cases
4. Speed – it has to be fast, even for sufficiently large amounts of text

Cufón consists of two individual parts – a font generator, which converts fonts to a proprietary format and a rendering engine written in JavaScript. Cufon has been tested in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Safari 3+, Opera 9.5+ & Google Chrome.

Cufón has been designed with developers in mind. Therefore the API is simple and configuration is usually not needed at all, as most of the needed information is provided by CSS style sheets.

The Implementation is pretty easy:

1. Download Cufon (recommended the YUI-compressed version)
2. Generate your personalized font
3. Replacing the text:

   <script src="cufon-yui.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <script src="Frutiger_LT_Std_400.font.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
   <script type="text/javascript">
   	Cufon.replace('h1'); // replace as necessary
   </script>
   

4. Avoid delay display in IE by adding this line just before body closing tag:

   <script type="text/javascript"> Cufon.now(); </script>

And you are done. Try some demos before you try it yourself

Preview Rico 3.0 Alpha, Now Run Multiple Libraries

Spreading out news from Dion Almaer of Ajaxian about the preview of new Rico 3.0 (alpha version). If you haven’t heard about Rico (officially called OpenRico), Rico is an open source javaScript framework used to create rich, highly interactive web applications. It includes grids, calendar & tree controls, drag & drop, ajax, and more.

Read the rest →

ierange: Implementing W3C DOM ranges for IE

Published at ajaxian a script made by Tim Cameron Ryan a full, feature complete version of W3C DOM Ranges that adds support to IE, ierange.

Ranges:

• document.createRange()
• startContainer, startOffset, endContainer, endOffset, commonAncestorContainer, collapsed
• setStart(), setEnd(), setStartBefore(), setStartAfter(), setEndBefore(), setEndAfter(), selectNode(), selectNodeContents(), collapse()
• insertNode(), surroundContents()
• extractContents(), cloneContents(), deleteContents()
• compareBoundaryPoints(), cloneRange(), createContextualFragment(), toString()

Selection:

• Range support (Webkit-style)
• window.getSelection()
• addRange(), removeAllRanges(), getRangeAt(), toString()

Not yet implemented:

• DOM Exception throwing
• detach()
• Live range support (Mozilla-style), removeRange()

Finally test it out in IE