February, 2008

New Tutorial on Writing Widgets

As the release of Coherent looms nearer, I’ve been encouraged to start writing some documentation. My first effort is up: Writing a Widget. This tutorial takes you through creating a widget using Coherent starting with raw mark up and ending with a functional (if simple) widget. Thanks to some great feedback (and encouragement) from Neil Mix of Pandora, this tutorial doesn’t suck.

Automatic Change Notifications in Coherent

I’ve written a little bit about an exciting new feature in the Coherent library: automatic change notifications. In short, this reduces the amount of code you need to write and if your application only needs to support a Class A browser (like Safari 3 or Firefox), you can rely on JavaScript’s support for property getter/setter methods to further reduce your work.