Jack rocks as-usual

Jack rocks as-usual

I’ve been following Jack’s Javascript UI work and it’s been quite impressive. Jack Slocum popularly known as a man behind flexing Yahoo UI to the max. You can find how famous he's in comment section of his blog.

Recently he released a DOM helper utility which provides 'more optimized insertion methods such as HTML fragments and template building'. As Jack points out 'DomHelper' clearly have benchmark performance benefits comparable to any utilities in other libraries.

"If you are doing JavaScript development, then at some point or another you have probably had to use DOM to create elements. Like everything else with DOM, creating elements can be extremely verbose, leading to bloated code and spending too much time doing something that should be simple. The DomHelper class in the 0.32.2 release provides a layer of abstraction from DOM and transparently supports creating elements via DOM or using HTML fragments. It also has the ability to create HTML fragment templates from your DOM building code."

I found Jack’s dragablelayout script kind of interesting & design-provocative. I'm currently trying to implement this interface technique in one of the offshore project. This is the way where the intuitive interface is heading towards. This surely beats the conventional way of thinking inside frames set & hacking around div's to resemble frameset interface. The draggable feature is worth checking it.

"This resize script applies drag handles to an element to make it resizable. The drag handles are inserted into the element and positioned absolute."