Posts Tagged ‘server side script

Adapt.js is a tiny (<1kb minified) JavaScript file that can load CSS files according to the width of the web pages. Before the browser renders a page, it checks for the width and decides the CSS file to be used from a given array. This can be easily accomplished with a server-side script, however, Adapt.js [...]

In his seminal article Style Versus Design Jeffrey Zeldman wrote The web used to look like a phone book . What he should have written is: The web used to look like a phone book sitting in a tacky 70s disco. Thanks to the combined garishness of animated GIFs, Java applets and JavaScript, many web [...]

For those that are not familiar with AJAX, the word is an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript + XML. AJAX is not new to the scene. In fact, even the newest advances in AJAX are at least five years old. Yet AJAX is becoming the buzz word in developing. AJAX is a very powerful technology that allows [...]

As the web evolves, new technologies are emerging and uniting in remarkable ways. The combination of Ajax and jQuery, in particular, is one of the most powerful unions to date. The purpose of this article is to give a brief and generalized overview of both Ajax and jQuery, and also discuss how jQuery has made [...]

Compass Datagrid is a jQuery plugin for displaying data within an Ajaxed datagrid. It simply takes an empty table and sends requests to a server-side script via Ajax. The script provides JSON encoded data for the plugin to update the table. The datagrid supports pagination with prev-next + first-last buttons and a listbox to select [...]


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