The 2nd part of the script.aculo.us library course. Today about its strongest point — visual effects. Getting to know more possibilities of script.aculo.us Visual effects Effects have their own options, but everywhere we can use Core Effect properties. The general form: Let’s see how it looks in practice. Example — use effects: Example #2 — […]

The script.aculo.us library Delving into the JavaScript frameworks, we would like to present the essence of script.aculo.us library. As we mentioned in JS Frameworks introduction, Prototype JS and script.aculo.us libraries are often seen together. The library, which now referred to, is like an extension of Prototype JS of visual effects, animation, Drag and Drop, creating […]

It’s time for the last, 3rd part of basic Prototype JS course, where we focus on the use of forms, associative arrays, strings and others, but this time on the rules of Prototype JS. Further delving into the Prototype JS framework Let’s start with the forms. Form Prototype JS encapsulates and / or extends to […]

We have JavaScript, we have also the April Fools’ Day, and that is a good opportunity to get away for the ordinary code and have some fun (I know, I know, JavaScript code by itself can sometimes give a lot of entertainment). April Fools’ Day in JavaScript First of all — an implementation for today: […]

Welcome to the second part of the Prototype JS course. Today we will focus on the elements of the document and performing operations on them. Prototype JS — further steps In this part of the course we will work with the DOM, but using Prototype JS approach. So let’s move ahead to discuss further elements […]

Here is the first part of the short courses, describing JavaScript frameworks. The first of these will be Prototype JS. Prototype JS Framework — from scratch A little bit of preliminary information appears in the article JavaScript Frameworks — foreword. The purpose of this article is not to replace the documentation, but the description of […]

Welcome to the new article. We touch various topics, and now we feel obliged to write about JSON (JavaScript Object Notation). It is a lightweight computer data interchange format. JSON is a text format, and you can treat it as a subset of JavaScript. JSON format in JavaScript The MIME type for JSON format is […]

Debug it! In this article we will take a look on testing the code and error handling in JavaScript. Handling errors in JavaScript At the beginning would have to say a few words about the need for testing. We need to test everything! Preferably at each stage of creating the code. And we must take […]

Update 09-2014 : note — this article has been originally created several years ago, so maybe a little different from today’s standards of good and recommended solutions. Welcome to the next part about practical examples and solutions in JavaScript. We’ll focus mainly on issues of validation (validator elements implementation). It’s just continuation of the previous […]

Update 09-2014 : note — this article has been originally created several years ago, so maybe a little different from today’s standards of good and recommended solutions. Today we recommend the first part of best practices and solutions in JavaScript. It is purely practical. We present tips and simple tricks. Best solutions in JavaScript An […]