Safari gets JavaScript debugger

The WebKit nightly builds now sport Drosera, which allows for debugging JavaScript code in web sites and applications.

And it even has a cool name. Eat those bugs!

Happy first birthday, script.aculo.us!

Today marks the first birthday of script.aculo.us, which was launched on June 22, 2005.

Since it’s humble beginnings as an effects add-on to Prototype and coming directly out of what we at wollzelle needed for fluxiom, it’s seen many uses on high- and not-so-high-level web sites, plus it’s covered in many articles all over the web and the blogosphere and all kinds of books.

Conservative estimates are that script.aculo.us has had more than a million downloads (counting the packages from the script.aculo.us download site, and the inclusions within frameworks, first and foremost Ruby on Rails).

script.aculo.us was an enormous success (it ranks #4 in the del.icio.us all-time popular sites!) and personally I’m very proud of it (and all the people that contributed to it!).

A big thanks at all the contributors—let’s see if we can make the second year as exciting as the first.

The Web is still changing.

ASCII World Cup

Tune your telnet to telnet ascii-wm.net 2006

Or read about it here (also has mirrors).

Judgment (Rails) Day

Along with fellow core team members and other railsers, I’m going to be one of the Judges for Rails Day 2006.

With lots of cool prizes around, we’re probably going to have a tough time on deciding what’s best (and I do hope some serious freakin’ hot stuff will be developed!).

I’m going to hang out at the campfire tomorrow, and maybe I can even answer a question or two if you’re using script.aculo.us (or just hit #prototype on freenode.net).

Solving the onload woe

Dean Edwards, with help from Matthias Miller and John Resig has come up with a cross-browser solution for the onload problem (that is, onload only fires after all binary assets of a page are completely loaded, and not after the HTML document is complete).

The problem prevents using libraries like behaviour.js in a complete no-inline-javascript way in many situations, as users have to wait for all things being loaded before the page becomes usable.

Nice to see this issue finally being tackled.

(via The Hero Dies in This One)

Rails Day 2006 – June 17

Rails Day 2006 is coming soon and we here at wollzelle will add some cool stuff to the already very nice prize list.

I’ll give a quick update here, as soon as it’s official on the Rails Day site. Update: We’re giving away 5 fluxiom Pro accounts to Rails Day winners, read more on that at the offical Rails Day blog.

And for you Rails developers: I want to see some cool uses of script.aculo.us, so please don’t let me down! 🙂