The GXT Slider is beautiful and fun to use, it can even be passed to a SliderField and used as an input widget in forms (FormPanel), there is however one twist to its API that I think should be looked into in GXT3 and its the fact the you have very little control over the formatting of the tooltip message shown as you drag the slider's thumb back and forth.

Some months ago the First Public Working Draft of Web Notifications was published. The idea behind this specification is to let web applications integrate with the notification system of the operating system. Or with a third-party system (e.g. Growl on Mac OS X). As there has been some confusion in the past I should stress that this is solely an API for showing a message to the user that e.g. a new email or instant message has arrived. This is not push technology; it is not for streaming data over the network.

The DevFest 2010 Lagos event has come and gone, but we are still brainstorming on some of the ideas still brewing in our minds. With just a fews days (hours actually) before the deadline for the submission of our fully formed "prototypes", I can't help but remember the bug I had during the conference while building my map app.

At the JsConf 2010 (JavaScript Conference 2010), Nigeria's own Makinde Adeagbo gave a talk on the recent optimizations for facebook ...

This has been said because Ext is a very high level language for Web development. It is almost DSL like versus offering low level functions that you can sprinkle in your code. If you buy into the Ext way then you can build UIs in a very simple manner through JSON. This is all perfectly setup for a design tool, and with Ext Designer, they have it.

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