Category Archives: Framework

ExtJS ComboBox Hidden Field Issues

Despite looking like a typical select box, Ext.form.ComboBox does not behave exactly as you would expect. It submits the display text instead of the selected option’s value. This post provides a solution to this problem. Continue reading

Introduction to Ext.Direct

Evan Trimboli of the Ext-JS team just published an article describing Ext.Direct, a remoting API that is part of Ext 3.0. Continue reading

Thesis 1.5 is Now Available

Thesis 1.5 is available now, and it boasts completely rebuilt options pages as well as some new design options that are quite literally going to revolutionize the way we build websites. Continue reading

FREE Thesis Template: Strange Little Town

This template is based on a WordPress theme by Minmin. Unfortunately the original theme doesn’t behave uniformly across multiple browsers. Don’t worry, that’s where Thesis comes in. Continue reading

Ext-JS to Provide Free CDN Hosting for its Framework

This is great news for the Ext-JS community. Here is why you should take advantage of a content delivery network. We are pleased to announce that Ext has partnered with CacheFly, a global content network, to provide free CDN hosting … Continue reading

Intro to jQuery by John Resig

Here is John Resig’s presentation of jQuery from this year’s The Ajax Experience. Learn how to develop a number of common-case widgets, handle DOM, event, animations and Ajax interactions.

Ext-JS 3.0 Showcases Visual Designer, Updates Roadmap

Jack Slocum has posted a screencast of the visual designer tool that will be part of upcoming release of Ext. The roadmap for version 3, due out in the first quarter of 2009, has also been updated. Here is what … Continue reading

Build Your First Ext-JS in Under an Hour

The Visual Ajax User Group is hosting a webinar with Aaron Conran, Sr. Architect Ext-JS on Thursday, October 16th, 2008. Sign up now. Continue reading

Yahoo! Releases YUI 2.6.0

2.6.0 introduces a new Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable), includes more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, graduates eight components out of “beta,” and now ships with more than 290 functional examples. Continue reading