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Flot: What’s the point!?

Posted on: Thursday, March 20th, 2008 in: JavaScript, User Interfaces

Here’s a screen shot:

What the hell is the point.  You can do this in flash and have more interactive graphs.  Granted it’s pretty, but so would any custom flash chart, or if you’re not the custom kind, there’s Open Flash Chart.
Seriously people.  jQuery is great for making the client side more interactive, but Flash has […]

Securing JavaScript Applications

Posted on: Monday, November 12th, 2007 in: JavaScript, Security

One big problem with using JavaScript as the basis for your application is that if a hacker gets clever they can insert their own JavaScript into your trusted page and execute it as though it were yours (XSS).
You could curtail a hacker by modifying the DOM so that the objects they would typically use to […]

Online Graph Editor

Posted on: Friday, October 5th, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming

I got this working today I’d share it.
It’s definitely a work in progress, but I figured I’d get it out there so that it could illicit some feedback.
Until I can sit down infront of a windows box to fix it, it only works in firefox.
http://graph.machete.ca/

Machete Mice

Posted on: Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming, User Interfaces

An alternate user interface for a plain old Chat System.
http://mice.machete.ca

TheBrain Clone

Posted on: Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007 in: JavaScript, Programming, User Interfaces

I’ve coded this website to demonstrate that web interaction need not be boring. It’s based on “TheBrain” which when I wrote this page was only a desktop application.
http://www.machete.ca/slips/

Fisheye Calendar

Posted on: Friday, September 28th, 2007 in: JavaScript, PHP, Programming, User Interfaces

As yet another proof of concept I’ve implemented a **zooming calendar system**.
It’s an attempt to retain user context even when drilling down into the details of an arbitrary interface. Calendar just happens to be a slick demo.
Thoughts?
http://calendar.machete.ca/test/2007/11/

Modeless Webpage Editor

Posted on: Thursday, September 27th, 2007 in: JavaScript, Programming, User Interfaces

Here’s my prototype for a modeless website WYSIWYG.
http://www.machete.ca/mui/
It doesn’t persist, it doesn’t have many commands, and it’s not exactly pretty. But what it does have is something I haven’t seen online before.
I’m hoping to turn it into a “muscle memory editor”. This is so beyond thought through that I’m not even sure if […]