AlphaControl

AlphaControl extends JavaScript and the DOM from the ECMAScript and W3C standards. This is different from AlphaCore which shims and polyfills respecting the afore mentioned standards.

Any modern browser is supported, which means IE8+. AlphaCore is required until browsers are up to date with the current DOM draft.

Support

Extends native objects and prototypes to add methods like Object.extend(), RegExp.escape() and String.prototype.camelize().

Also gives access to new objects like Inflector and I18n, plus some others made to extend your objects and prototypes, like Eventable and Optional. Eventable for instance, allows you to listen and dispatch events in your objects.

UI

UI objects for building dialogs, pickers, to sort objects, etc.

In constrast to jQuery UI and consors, all the UI in AlphaControl are JavaScript constructs, which means that you won't mess with HTML to manipulate UI components, but will instead instanciate a dialog, set its title and contents and eventually display it.

For example here is how you'd handle an alert dialog:

var dialog = UI.createWarningAlert();
dialog.setMessageText("Error: lost connection");
dialog.seInformativeText("The connection to the remote server has been cut. " +
    "Please check your Internet connection, or wait until we're back online.");

dialog.addEventListener('validate', function (e) {
    // do something when the user clicked the OK button
    // call e.preventDefault() to prevent the dialog from being closed
}, false);

dialog.display();

Rails

Provides support for Rails' UJS. Also provides a Rails.Request object, which mimics the XMLHttpRequest2 interface (with events), transparently taking care of the X-CSRF-Token header.

Authors

• Julien Portalier julien@portalier.com