Monday, May 9th, 2005
Category: Ajax
Adaptive Path, one of the hosts, has some “lessons learned” for their product world (“What? Adaptive Path is doing product?”). Unfortunately the red light is going to come on soon. Some core topics: Progressive Engagement: We can see that Jeff gets UI design, and the psyche of web based users. The application that is being Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Iain is an Oddpost old boy, which sold out for copious amounts of $ to Yahoo! Halfbrain In 1999, Iain worked on a spreadsheet that ran in a browser (Halfbrain). Remember the days of “Office will be on the web!”. Remember Corel’s vision? IE was easy to develop for, but Netscape 4? Ouch. Then there Read the rest…
The Rails flow continues. Sam Stephenson wrote Prototype, which is the JavaScript library that Rails uses to get its Ajax work done. (Although, it isn’t just for Rails, DHH says that there is even a CPAN module to spit out the same Prototype code). It is a very pragmatic approach, that doesn’t try to add Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
David HH is presenting on how he built Backpack using Rails. Rails isn’t all about creating Ajax components so to speak. It works at a lower level of abstraction, and makes it easy to do Ajaxian things. innerHTML vs. createNode createNode and its ilk is what made programmers hate JavaScript in the first place. E.g. Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Luke is the lead UI designer for the platform group at eBay. He starts off trying to set the continuum of the web, from HTML, to Flash, to Java Applets, and Ajax. He will talk about the key factors on why a decision was made, and when to use, or NOT use Ajax. Kijiji: Craigslist Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Bill comes at us from the corporate environment of Sabre (Travelocity, Airline Solutions, and more). Scalability Challenge Rich table with inline editing, but what about if you have 10,000 flights in there? What about paging? Page Load Page/Data Refresh Scrolling 20 sec real time Paging 3 sec 2 sec Ajax+Paging 3 sec milli-seconds Sable Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Douglas Crockford is well known for JSON.org, “The fat-free alternative to XML”. He “discovered” JSON, which Doug explains is a “Data Interchange” format, versus a document format. Being Well Formed and Valid, doesn’t mean “Relevant and Correct”, so Douglas focuses on the sender and the receiver, and semantic knowledge between them. This presentation was the Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
“I am Kevin Lynch and I work on the much beloved Flash player” Before working on Flash itself, Kevin worked on Dreamweaver, so he has been there before. He starts off showing us an old article that he wrote. Then, he shows us a feed report which demonstrates having the HTML layer talking through to Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Eric Costello is a UI guru at Flickr, who groks Flash as well as this Ajax stuff ;) Flickr is getting rid of Flash and is actually moving towards Ajax. He starts out by showing issues when you dynamically change the DOM, and having the browser moving things around, forcing the user to have to Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Derek is going to show us the most humble implementation that you are doing to see in the next two days. It is a smart part of the Technorati redesign. Derek is an HTML/CSS guy who “has friends who write JavaScript, and knows people who write PHP” :) RED LIGHT ALERT Unfortunately, if a presenter Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Brent Ashley is known for Remote Scripting Resources at http://www.ashleyit.com/rs, and is an independant consultant. He also has a bunch of fun R&D side projects such as: blogchat.com: browser-based chat simplefilter.com: spam-id via SMTP proxy Brent jumps into the Remote Scripting world of Microsoft, and talks about how this stuff was done a long, long Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
I am sitting at the begining of an Ajax Summit, hosted by O’Reilly and Adaptive Path (who coined the Ajax term). This is a two day event, and day one is a set of presentations by people who want to share Ajaxian experiences. The tribe that has been assembled is impressive: Rael Dornfest, O’Reilly Marc Read the rest…
Friday, May 6th, 2005
We were just talking to a UI/information architect, who was complaining about handling users who have JavaScript turned off, and how Ajax has a barrier, in that he can’t get budget to “write the application twice”. The problem with “working without JavaScript turned on” is interesting. However, these days I think that this problem is Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005
Category: Java
CyberXP.NET AjaxFaces offers Ajax integration to the JavaServer Faces web framework. This solution makes any JavaServer Faces UI component Ajaxable: either trigger Ajax process or change user interface using the output from Ajax process. The CyberXP.NET AjaxFaces Components also provide various user-interface components with built-in functionality – such as trees, and calendars – that can Read the rest…
Category: .NET, Ajax
, Java
, JavaScript
, Ruby
, XmlHttpRequest
Currently, Ben and I get asked: Ok, I am sold on this Ajax thing. So, how do I do it? There is no great answer out there. The problem is that currently Ajax is an architecture, not a technology!. This means that to help people out we point them too something like: .NET: Check out Read the rest…
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IE 8 Crashing Problem
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JQuery Function Not Defined?
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