javascript fun
(( this is a crosspost from plix.org ))
As of late I've been working on a JavaScript library similar to prototype and I've been working first and foremost on various HTML widgets. This past afternoon the first was completed (Lambda demo -- note that the opacity demo is currently broken), a tab interface. Nothing revolutionary functionally, but implementation-wise it is the first that I know of that degrades perfectly if the client has JavaScript disabled or is using a browser that doesn't support the DOM. Furthermore, all styling is handled through CSS. The only issue that it doesn't address is the so-called "AJAX Effect" which renders the browser back button useless. I don't foresee this as an issue, though, as the tab metaphor doesn't map to the back button paradigm anyway (there exists no need as the user can simply go back to the previous tab).
As of late I've been working on a JavaScript library similar to prototype and I've been working first and foremost on various HTML widgets. This past afternoon the first was completed (Lambda demo -- note that the opacity demo is currently broken), a tab interface. Nothing revolutionary functionally, but implementation-wise it is the first that I know of that degrades perfectly if the client has JavaScript disabled or is using a browser that doesn't support the DOM. Furthermore, all styling is handled through CSS. The only issue that it doesn't address is the so-called "AJAX Effect" which renders the browser back button useless. I don't foresee this as an issue, though, as the tab metaphor doesn't map to the back button paradigm anyway (there exists no need as the user can simply go back to the previous tab).