Web page performance is critical to keeping customers and visitors moving along on your site. Slow responses typically result in frustrated users, unhappy customers and worse, abandoned orders. It is important to reduce the number of requests generated by a web page in order to increase its actual and perceived performance. Continue reading
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
This grease monkey script enables HD, when available, for any links on the YouTube Homepage, My Videos & My Favorites. Continue reading
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
Steve “Cutters” Blades’ book on Ext-JS is out. By using a series of straightforward examples backed by screenshots, Learning Ext JS will help you create web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users. Continue reading
Steve “Cutter” Blades has created a custom JSON Data Reader for ColdFusion, CFQueryReader. It allows Ext-JS developers to populate GridPanels using serialized ColdFusion queries in their native format or formatted for grid. CFQueryReader is designed to accommodate either format automatically.
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
Bjørn Sandvik, a project manager at the United Nations Association of Norway has created an Ext-JS user extension for Google Earth. The code and examples are here.
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.
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
