So another day at work was destroyed by IE6, what else is new.

Google announced a while back that Wave won’t be supported on IE without the use of “Chrome frame”. This is basically the chrome browser injected into IE. So at Microsoft, they’re probably working hard on an IE6-frame to get some market shares back. This hypothetical addin would allow you to get the nice IE6 unexpectable rendering we all love so much in any non IE-browser. But why wait, I’ve just created a beta version of the IE6-frame. Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

Here’s the code:

$(function() {
	$('body *').each(function(i, el) {
       ie6ize(el);
    });

    /*
        Emulate IE-6 rendering
        @param node, the poor node to get "the treatment"
    */
    function ie6ize(node){
        switch (Math.floor(Math.random()*11)) {
            case 0:
                $(node).css('float', 'left');
            break;

            case 1:
                $(node).css('margin-left', '10px');
            break;

            case 2:
                $(node).css('width', '102%');
            break;

            case 3:
                $(node).css('height', '110%');
            break;

            case 4:
                $(node).css('position', 'absolute');
            break;

            case 5:
                $(node).css('display', 'inline');
            break;

            case 6:
                $(node).css('color', '#fff');
            break;
        }
    }
});

So what does this do for me you ask? See the before and after images below.

Ajaxian before:

Ajaxian IE6-ized:

Twitter before:

Twitter IE6-ized:

If you want to use this in a commercial application, please contact me at ……. no not really

Just signed up for the free version of uservoice.com which is a very cool idea. You may have seen this kind of forum at stackoverflow.com where users can vote on each answer to a question. They have a pretty solid “Who’s using uservoice” page with customers like Sun, MySpace and so on.

The price ranges from free to not free . I chose the free version to be able to evaluate the service. If you have feature ideas for the Ext Scheduler, why not input them at http://scheduler.uservoice.com.

Packt publishing recently announced the new Ext JS 3.0 Cookbook. They provided me with a copy and asked me to do a review which I happily agreed to. Check back in a week or two to read my full review. Here’s some of the good stuff covered in the book:

• Master the Ext JS widgets and learn to create custom components to suit your needs
• Build striking native and custom layouts, forms, grids, listviews, treeviews, charts, tab panels, menus, toolbars and much more for your real-world user interfaces
• Packed with easy-to-follow examples to exercise all of the features of the Ext JS library
• Part of Packt’s Cookbook series: Each recipe is a carefully organized sequence of instructions to complete the task as efficiently as possible

So far there has only been a few books released about ExtJS so this book is definitely good news! It looks like a very interesting read judging from the TOC, click the image to learn more!

Here’s another short webcast showing how you can turn the scheduler into a simple Gantt chart easily.

Enjoy!

Just finished another webcast showing how to add some basic business rules into the scheduler. I’m currently working on a longer behind-the-scenes video that will explain how to implement and style the grid.

Enjoy!

I’ve been working on a project for a while and now I feel it’s stable enough to go public with it. It’s a javascript based scheduler built upon the lovely ExtJS framework. I’ll be posting updates and implementation details in upcoming posts.

Check out the forum thread or go directly to the webcast.

Project homepage

Feedback or ideas welcome!

Updated my bookmarklet which does syntax highlighting and coloring (based on 2 other scripts). It now supports coloring of selected text which should come in handy, for example in forum posts like these:

Try it out yourself on these posts, just select the code text and fire the bookmarklet:

http://www.codetoad.com/forum/15_28462.asp
http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=392611#post392611

The source for the bookmarklet can be found in the Ext forums:

http://www.extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?p=393025#post393025

Enjoy!

As read here

What’s new and how to use it – Ext JS 3.0

Ext JS and Adobe Air

Optimizing Performance

Ext GWT Layouts

Refactoring

The google image search has changed a lot lately. A while back they added the feature to search by type (icon/photo/face) and colors. Now you can even specify exact size of your icon, which is very useful when you need to *cough* borrow *cough* icons to a demo UI for instance.

Just found this link in an Ext forum thread, slides from a session introducing Ext Core. A pretty nice informative read on the basics of Ext Core. According to Abe, more is on the way which sounds very promising!