Roy's musings

This page provides you a list of top 5 JavaScript frameworks. Though I am not sure if they are the top 5, which is always arguable, I am very sure that those frameworks are good and useful.

I am experimenting with PlotKit tool. So far I am liking the simplicity of the library and the good documentation. I was making use of the SweetCanvasRenderer to draw a line graph, as I was strictly following the quick start example. I wanted to draw two line graphs in the same canvas, each with different colors. But with the SweetCanvasRenderer it is not possible to change the line color, as it always overrides the strokeStyle property in the Context with white color. See the code below from SweetCanvas.js: context.strokeStyle = Color.whiteColor().toRGBString(); If you would like to make use of SweetCanvasRenderer, still would like to have different colors for each of the lines, you will have to do it with little changes to the SweetCanvas.js file. Or you can consider making use of the BasicCanvasRenderer.

By JavaScript generated page I mean a page that is mostly constructed using JavaScript's document.write(...) statements. This is mostly the case when you make use of UI frameworks like YUI. Recently one of my friends approached me to help him with trouble shooting a page which was developed using YUI. We spent some time trying to figure out how to view the source of the page that we were viewing. When we did a right click and "View source" in Firefox, all we saw was a bunch of JavaScript sources being included. Nothing more. So here is how you can easily view the source. Install "Execute JS" plug in. Then load the page you would like to view source. Then you click on "Tools -> Open Execute JS". Then check the "Content Window" and choose the title of the window that you would like to view the source for. Now in the "JS-Code to execute", just type the following: document.documentElement.innerHTML Then click on "Execute"...

There are times when you would like to have a text area in your web site that resembles like a word processor's page, with a lot of controls to format your text. If you have worked with any content management system (CMS) or a wiki, you have most likely come across one. I was looking for a WYSIWYG editor and came across a few of them. Thought I sould share the list with everyone so that you don't have to waste your precious time. The list below is not in any particular order. FCKEditor . Looked like the editor that had the most features. This site provides a demo and a very good documentation as well. TinyMCE . Wherever people talk about WYSIWYG editor, they invariably mention both FCKEditor and TinyMCE. Provides a demo and by looking at the source of demo you can find how easy it is to integrate this editor. Xinha .They have an excellent demo page that allows you to customize the editor on the fly and see. Kupu . Kupu is from Open Source Content Management team. I could not ...