In part one of this series, we reviewed some of the necessary constructs to use when creating a widget with YUI3. We looked at the static properties we needed to set, the class constructor and namespacing, and briefly looked at the extend() method.
In this part of the tutorial, we’ll review the prototype methods we can override or create in order to make our widget function.
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Maybe you saw that tweet: “jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript addiction. In this episode, we’ll take a tour of Dijit, Dojo’s UI library.
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In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how easy it is to create scalable, robust and portable widgets using the latest version of the Yahoo User Interface library. YUI3 provides a Widget class for us to extend in order to create widgets in a consistent way that leverage the power of the library.
The widget that we’ll create today is a Twitter search client that will query Twitter’s search API and consume the JSON response in order to display tweets that contain the configured search term. We can also add additional functionality such as allowing the visitor to choose another term and do a new search, and viewing paged results. Join me after the jump!
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Sometimes, you don’t require a high-quality templating solution, but still need to keep from mixing lots of nasty HTML into your JavaScript. In these cases, a simple, makeshift templating system can go a long way.
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Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript addiction.
In this second episode, we’ll be discussing loading modules and using some of the DOM-enhancing modules.
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Maybe you saw that tweet: “jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript addiction.
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jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components that features interactions, animation effects and ready-to-use widgets. jQuery UI is based on the jQuery JavaScript library and is themeable, which makes integrating jQuery UI easy for developers of any skill level to integrate into their web pages and applications.
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In this Premium series, we review version four of the JavaScript framework, ExtJS. We’ll cover what it is, how to install it, and then work through a variety of demos that demonstrate how to take full advantage of the framework.
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