JavaScript

The latest release of ShieldUI widgets included the Calendar control. This was a component, requested by many of our customers, and it was not long before our data visualization team started working on it. We set out to build the component with three main goals in mind - performance, flexibility and consistent API. Below you can find an outline of the main characteristics of the component, and see how it meets the requirements of your project.

One of the valuable things that HTML5 conveys to developers is technology for doing rich visualizations directly in the browser. For years, web developers had to do one of the below mentioned scenarios if they want to present a visually rich element (for example a chart):

a. Conduct a round-trip to the server
The server fetches the needed image data and channels the results back to the browser. Works everywhere, but the results are usually static. Any changes to the image require more trips to the server.

ShieldUI recently announced the addition of a new set of tools to its Web Development Suite. The company rolled out a set of twelve new controls, which aim to boost the component offering and complement the flagship of the suite – the chart and grid controls.

Native HTML elements used in web pages do not always provide the experience intended by developers and needed by the end-users. This article describes how Shield UI JavaScript widgets can be used to solve common and not-so-common UI problems of the modern web development world.

In this blog post entry, we will review in greater detail the ShieldUI JavaScript DataSource component - a versatile data component that aims to simplify data retrieval and manipulation.
It provides out-of-the-box binding to various data sources: