May 17, 2012

Mootools beats jQuery and Ext for AIR

When I recently updated an Adobe AIR app I’d written for AIR Beta 1, I found that I had to go to enormous lengths to continue being able to use ExtJs as a selection & effects library for it. This is due to “eval()” being prohibited in the base Javascript on any AIR app.

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Blueprint CSS Grid Tool for Adobe Air

I’m a big fan of the Blueprint CSS framework. In the process of using it to develop the base template for Banjo, the blog app I'm writing, I realized I need a tool to help me keep page elements lined up on the grid, both vertically and horizontally.

Blueprint comes with a background grid image to use for this, but it only works as a background, and it is not that useful when you are working with colors and final tweaks. So, I made a little (tiny) AIR app which will show a floating grid, sized at 18px and with Blueprint-sized columns.

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