Posts by Duilen

I’ve used basecamp a lot but it just seems like everything out there is designed with the intent to make you hate life. Well maybe that is going extreme but why is it so painful to use this stuff? I wish something would come out with game mechanics built in to make you feel good about your accomplishments instead of focusing on the perpetual task list in front of you.

Nice. I was just thinking about doing a choose your own adventure or something along those lines. Now there is suddenly an HTML5 category with a game subcategory

jQuery ftw. Libraries rule because they are free. On videohive when the plugins are commercial it’s nothing new that prerendered, no plugins required or no plugins used at all files may sell better. But here using “plugins”: libraries it’s on behalf the better end result and as long as they are free no one cares if you are able to make a file natively or with a certain library, but only as long as it does not interfere with another library they are already using on their site. I prefer jQuery because it’s popular and I’ve worked with it when mootools was already in use and jQuery was working well in noConflict mode.

I have nothing wrong with libraries but as a user I’d really prefer not to load multiple libraries with tons of overlapping functionality just to support all my features. Ideally if I’m already using Prototype on my site then I want to get snippets written in Prototype and vice versa.

So that’s my concern. I don’t want to write a small feature in Prototype and have users say “wow, I’d really like to put that on my site but I’m already using jQuery and I’m not willing to load Prototype as well just to get this new feature.”

Yep, I was just reading up on it. I’m not too excited about another scriptaculous-like library to be honest. CSS3 /HTML5 is going to start taking over on the transitions/animations side so the only role js needs to play in that game is dom manipulation for adding/removing/modifying elements.

Going forward I plan to start focusing more on CSS3 transitions with Modernizr to test for browser support. Then I’ll fallback on js animations.

What is Scripty?

I would like to assume that an app written in purely native JS outperforms Prototype and jQuery in the marketplace because it doesn’t have any dependencies but something tells me that isn’t the case.

People likely buy snippets because they don’t have the skill set to quickly add the functionality they need on their own. This means they are likely already leaning on one of the 2 most popular libraries. They probably don’t want to mix libraries or venture out and use something native for fear of not being able to customize to the level they need.

So, which library, if any, should we support? Is it acceptable to write 2 different versions of an app to support different libraries or should optional library support be bundled in a single app?

I’ve been in Prototype land for a while but I kind of feel that jQuery is taking the lead in popularity. Is there a way to see how many jQuery/Prototype apps have been sold to make a comparison?

You know, this might make for an interesting web app idea but I don’t think image maps are used enough to really make it worth while.

I rarely run into situations where I need to use an image map so I don’t really know of a good way to zoom in an get the coords precise. I would probably plug the image into photoshop, zoom in and get the coords then transfer to my editor. Definitely not ideal but at least you could zoom in and pan.

Looks good. I would tighten up the coords and possibly try to make the fillColor rgba() and fall back on hex to make it semitransparent and allow the text to bleed through on CSS3 compliant browsers.

You could have a large png sprite but that doesn’t sound like very much fun to develop or maintain. Does the mapHighlight(?) method make use of the canvas tag? It would be helpful if you could link to your implementation when it’s ready.