About

BTM-JS is a JavaScript library which provides extensions to native objects, utility methods, and pre-defined widgets/UI elements.

BTM-JS is a work-in-progress, and is currently developing at quite a rapid rate. Once the initial feature-set is stable across supported browsers, I will make the Library available for download. In the meantime, you can check out my progress by viewing the BTM-JS API Reference or Examples.

Features

• Compatibility
  • Library support: (one of these is required for emulated querySelector support in legacy browsers, and CSS3 querySelector support in MSIE8)
    • cssQuery
    • jQuery
    • Prototype (Experimental)
  • Supported Browsers:
    • Mozilla Firefox 2.0+
    • Safari 3+ Safari 2.0 support coming soon
    • Opera 9.x Not fully tested yet
    • Internet Explorer 6+ May be unstable under MSIE6
• Native Object extensions
  • Array extras
    • All methods introduced in JavaScript 1.6 for legacy browsers
    • Collect the same property from every Array element
    • Method to remove duplicate elements
  • Date extras
    • Template String output
    • Multilingual Days of the Week
    • Multilingual Months of the Year
    • Days in the Month
    • Leap-year detection
    • Week of the Year
  • String extras
    • URL & Query String parsing
    • Character/Whitespace trimming
    • Camel-Case/dashed conversion
    • HTML / XML tag removal
  • Number extras
    • Conversion to padding string
  • Function extras
    • Class inheritance as demonstrated by Shelby H. Moore III
    • Method binding & currying
• Events
  • Simplified API for adding, removing and prioritising event listeners
  • Support for DOMContentLoaded in legacy browsers
  • Custom events
  • Manually firing events (any event logged through BTM.Event API)
  • Cancelling Event propogation
• JSON - using json2.js from http://www.json.org/
• DOM Manipulation
  • Various helper methods for DOM element/attribute reading/writing/manipulation
• Mappings (unobtrusive JavaScript helper)
  • Run a function on every element matching a certain selector.
• Forms
  • Placeholder Text
  • Select Elements
    • Dependant Drop Lists
    • Adding/Removing Options
    • Sorting
    • Moving/Copying all/selected Options
  • Branded Buttons
  • Validation
    • Built-in common checks
    • Easy to implement custom field checking
    • Nested checking (if a==b, c must equal d)
• Tables (Record Lists)
• Dynamic Tables
  • Sorting
  • Filtering
• (De)Select All
• Click-to-Select on Rows
• Automatic "zebra striping"
• UI Components
  • Image Viewer
    • CSS styled
    • Keyboard control
    • Auto-fit scaling of large images
    • Title & Description display
  • Date Picker
  • Tabs
    • Support for in-page and AJAX tabs
    • Bookmarkable current tab (including AJAX tabs)
    • AJAX Tabs
      • Pre-Loading
      • Basic always/never re-load rules
  • Tree View
• AJAX
  • AJAX Requester
  • AJAX Updater - update element with response of AJAX call