JavaScript
The main piece of news for day 2 in the Firefox Summit 2008 is that everyone is now trapped in the small town of Whistler after a rock slide cut off the highway that connects Whistler to Vancouver. Fortunately, nobody was injured because of this. However, clearing the massive boulders that are blocking the highway will take 5 days according to official sources. Since the summit ends this Thursday, most attendants need to go to the Vancouver Airport on Friday to catch flights to their home countries. The cause of this rock slide is unclear at the moment, but there are people in the summit who are speculating whether a company whose name starts with an 'M' is behind all of this. A bug was filed in Bugzilla to track the issue, and some of the currently-proposed solutions involve riding bears, taking boats, or taking helicopters. In reality however, we will most likely end up going through a different route that takes around 8 hours in bus.
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Submitted by Ayman on Thu, 2008/07/31 - 4:13pm
The Firefox Summit 2008 started today in the city of Whistler, BC, Canada. Around 400 contributors to the Mozilla project gathered to meet, share thoughts and discuss the 3.0 release of Firefox and plan for the next releases. I'm attending the summit as the Arabic localizer. I will post a daily highlight of the summit on my blog, so let's start with day one.
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Submitted by Ayman on Wed, 2008/07/30 - 8:54am
A couple of weeks ago I posted an article on creating a drag/drop portal interface with Drupal and Script.aculo.us. Many comments were interested in a jQuery port for Drupal 5.0, and Mark recommended building such a module on top of the brilliant Panels module. I finally had time to continue working on this, so I created an initial drag/drop module built on top of jQuery and Panels. It's far from complete (doesn't save user settings for example), but it's step in the right direction. I also posted an issue to Panels' tracker, pinging merlinofchaos (author of panels), so let's take the discussion there.
I really am looking forward to polishing this module, as I believe it'll be a timely addition to Drupal's arsenal of modules, now that jQuery is part of Core and Drupal 5.0 is around the corner.
You may download the module here. It's only meant to demonstrate functionality. It's for Drupal 4.7 (because Panels hasn't been ported to 5.0 yet), and requires Panels module. To use it, try to add a new panel and you will find a new type called "three column with drag-and-drop". I tested it with bluemarine; it may not work with other themes for reasons outlined in the issue I posted.
Submitted by Ayman on Mon, 2006/10/02 - 11:32pm
JavaScript is a fully-featured Object-Oriented programming language. On the surface, it shares syntactical similarities with Java and C, but the mentality is quite different. At its core, JavaScript is more similar to functional languages. Inside is a list of JavaScript tips, some offer techniques to simulate features found in C-like languages (such as assertions or static variables). Others are meant to improve performance and explore some of the more obscure parts of the web scripting language.
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Submitted by Ayman on Wed, 2006/09/27 - 6:26pm
Update: I posted some news on this here.
Ever wondered how to create an interface like Google Personalized Home? In the first section of this article I'll demonstrate how to create a drag/drop portal in a few lines of JavaScript code, using the excellent Prototype and Scriptaculous JavaScript libraries. In the second section, I'll explain how to integrate this code into Drupal as a server backend for storing user settings. You may check the frontend here (tested with Firefox 1.5, IE6, and Opera 8.5), and download a reusable JavaScript Portal class and Drupal module for the backend at the bottom of this post.
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Submitted by Ayman on Mon, 2006/09/04 - 12:23am
