GeoSuggester JS – A pure JavaScript Autocomplete plugin for geo input forms
GeoSuggester let you obtain full geographic data from a single input string provided by user, thanks to geocoding functionalities offered by Google Maps API services.
Category Archives: Web Development
Into PhoneGap: an example of API-aware native iPhone app with HTML5 and SQL local database
These days I had the opportunity to test PhoneGap, an open source framework for creating native mobile apps with web standards. So, first things came to mind when you think about HTML5, is that even if mobile browsers are very fast to implement new features, you cannot truly count on “standards” but on “drafts”. The [...]
No need to jQuery: managing events
A very important topic in web development it’s about Events. jQuery offers a nice syntax with functions like element.click(), MooTools -instead- tries to remain closer to natural JavaScript implementation with element.addEvent(‘onclick’, fn). Modern browsers have really no problem with this, the syntax is simple: el.addEventListener(“click”, eventTriggered, false); function eventTriggered() { //do your stuff }
No need to jQuery: element selectors
I’m going to write some premise-posts to my recent experience with a native app for iPhone wrapped with PhoneGap. Before to reach that point, I would like to focus on how, in certain circumstances (E.g., mobile development), there is no need to include heavy libraries like jQuery, causing often poor performance especially on less recent [...]
Advanced Placeholder with Javascript: hide on first key pressed
MooTools Quick DemojQuery Quick Demo Common design patterns about Placeholder hide labels on focus event, so when user select the input box. Another technique hides the label after user’s focus, precisely it does on first letter typed (it’s the case of new twitter welcome-page).
GeoSuggester Goes 0.4
Updates to GeoSuggester was really needed, specially from the code-cleaning point of view. This has been one of my first plugin; so I think it’s a good practice, as a developer grows, to put some of this experience gained in his older (but still actual) projects in order to enhance code and overall quality. Here’s [...]
From Classic Approach (PHP) to Framework-Oriented Development (Rails3)
Italian version The answer I would like to had some time ago. Less than a year ago, coming from front-end development and classical PHP approach, I asked – on a related discussion on FriendFeed – the reasons and gains taken from using a development framework.
HTML5.Projectile – A Simple projectile-motion implementation
Quick Demo Last weeks i’ve been working a lot with Ogre 3D engine and by consequence i couldn’t bring something, even little, here on my blog. The topic is the classic projectile motion (not considering air drag) re-adapted to HTML5 implementation.
Released GeoSuggester 0.2: A Way to improve forms user experience
After 4 month from the first prototype i’m happy to release the actual version of GeoSuggester. GeoSuggester is a MooTools class that aims to improve the experience when filling geographic data into web forms.
Effetti grafici con Javascript: semplice comparsa e scomparsa con animazione
In un esempio recente su questo blog ho mostrato come ottenere un’effetto slide verticale (simulando un’illusione di movimento grazie ad alcune immagini ad-hoc). Qualcuno mi chiede se è possibile realizzarlo anche con un’interpolazione orizzontale: niente di più facile, MooTools mette a disposizione delle classi che facilitano il lavoro (Fx.Slide, invece del semplice tween utilizzato nell’esempio [...]