While developing a website for a client, I was tasked with creating text that would fade in and out continuously. I figured that use case would be useful for many websites so I decided to create a class. It turns out the class is useful for cases where any html content has to be shown and hidden. The class is called Marquee.

I wrote several methods for controlling the Marquee class. Although I didn’t implement them for my current use case, I though they would be useful in the future. Methods included are

• load
• append
• start
• stop
• clear
• empty
• next
• previous

Tags: JavaScript Frameworks, Prototype

After a few days work, I am sharing with everyone my first (and surely not the last) prototypejs class. It allows you to easily provide notifications on your website similar to the Growl on the Mac OS.

This exists as a plugin for MooTools and jQuery but I didn’t see one for Prototype so I decided to provide one for the community.

Growler Project Page and Examples

Tags: JavaScript Frameworks, Prototype, UI