You could be forgiven for thinking that Flash was the only way you can add cool interactive graphs to a website. In this week’s article, Alex shows us just how far this is from the truth, introducing us to the excellent gRaphaël graphing library for JavaScript.

Yahoo’s YUI JavaScript library has a wealth of components that work well together to create impressive user interfaces. In this article, Darrin shows us how easy it is to leverage YUI’s TreeView component, in order to create a dynamic expanding tree control that loads content via Ajax.

As a follow-up to his recent ebook, Build Your Own Firefox Extension, James has assembled this selection of useful tips, tricks, and hacks that he's collected from his experience with building extensions for Firefox.

Ben Galbraith, of Mozilla Labs, is speaking at Web Directions South '09 on The State of Browser Tools. Andrew had the opportunity to interview him about his Web Directions session, the Bespin project, and browser tools in general.

The Yahoo User Interface library has established itself as one of the key JavaScript libraries to use enhancing the user experience on a web page. In this article, Ara previews what's around the corner for the next version: YUI 3.

Displaying non-standard fonts on the Web has always meant either relying on Flash or sacrificing the accessibility of your page. Is utilizing the canvas element the answer we've been looking for?

In this article, Kai demonstrates how to enable two-way communication between Flash and JavaScript. Complete the quiz at the end to be in the running to win a free copy of Adobe CS4 Web Premium and Flex Builder 3 Pro.

It's often handy to append a small icon after a link to a file or an external site, so that users aren't surprised when they follow those links. Toby shows us a nifty way to append those icons automatically with a spot of JavaScript.

In Part 1 of this series, Myles gave us a taste for how to manipulate sprites on the screen. In this fascinating follow-up, he reveals the end product of some extreme JavaScript hacking—recreating the classic Mario Brothers platform game!

No, you can't really multi-thread in JavaScript, but James shows the advantages of simulating a multi-threaded environment when dealing with intensive code. Armed with the techniques in this article, the possibilities for what you can achieve with JavaScript are limitless!