Friday, October 7th, 2005
Google announced Google Reader, an ajaxian RSS reader application. There have been a number of attempts at online readers, and this is a nice one. There are a couple of features that really make it interesting: Keyboard shortcuts Like GMail, the shortcuts matter. Hitting J and K especially to scroll through the feeds looks so Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Num Sum is a new ajaxian web spreadsheet in the “Ajax Office” vein, brought to us by TrimPath. You can simply create spreadsheets on the fly and name them if you want to keep and share for awhile, or just have one use and move on. Since this is the participation web 2.0: You can Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
I just went to Brightcove, a new Web 2.0 company (of course), founded by Mr. Jeremy Allaire (good guy). When you go to the home page, you have this weird feeling where it looks like a normal webpage, but something is wrong. But, then you try to use it like a normal web page, and Read the rest…
Category: Books, Pragmatic Ajax
The Beta Book of Pragmatic Ajax has been published and made available at the Pragmatic Programmers home of the book. We are really excited about getting this out there. For those that are not familiar with the Beta Book process: A Beta Book is a book that’s still in development. Buy it, and you’ll be Read the rest…
Thursday, October 6th, 2005
Category: RichTextWidget
SynchroEdit is another editor on the block: SynchroEdit is an open-source browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. It allows multiple users to edit a single web-based document at the same time, and it continuously synchronizes all changes so that users always have the same version. SynchroEdit’s main editor is fully WYSIWYG, Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Dean Edwards has been discussing the issues with the onload handler and an issue with it: The window.onload event is used by programmers to kick-start their web applications. This could be something trivial like animating a menu or something complex like initialising a mail application. The problem is that the onload event fires after all Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Alexander Kirk has been writing about Ajax performance via entries such as Bloated Ajax Applications Due to Libraries, Rise of slow AJAX applications, and Code downloading with AJAX. Alex tends to like lean libraries such as SACK. Although, we have to keep down the code in an environment such as browser-based, there is a reason Read the rest…
Wednesday, October 5th, 2005
Category: Showcase
Tim Broddin has developed twofifty.org, a web application that allows its users to keep track of which movies from the IMDb Top 250 they’ve seen. He developed this because he saw a lot of fellow webloggers who kept a list like this but they all struggled keeping it up to date. twofifty.org uses a clean Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Kendall Clark got a little kiddy thinking about how Ajax and SPARQL can fit together: “SPARQL over AJAX just by itself is so cool it gives me a headache!”. SPARQL could be the begining of the merge of Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. Currently the idea of mash-ups is a big one. How many Read the rest…
Category: Pragmatic Ajax
Here at planet ajaxian, we have been hard at work on a book on Ajax, Pragmatic Ajax: Now there’s no need for you to choose between the ease of deployment of a web page and the interactive features of a rich desktop application. Ajax redefines the user experience for web applications. Your application can provide Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Ilkka Huotari opened his doors to his latest web venture: Editsite. Editsite is CMS as a service. It goes above and beyond a simple blog, in that you can build any kind of site using very interesting in-browser tools. Editing You have editor widgets, and live editing. Choosing Layouts Picking layouts is simple. Creating Forms Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Category: Showcase
A nice chap in Prague has created a WWW SQL Designer, that gives you a cool graphical, dragable, view of your database schema. One fun part is the bottom right corner of the application. This area shows you the entire canvas of your tables, and allows you to move the red square around to view Read the rest…
Category: Podcasts
Ben and I got together just after the Microsoft PDC event and chatted about the recent news in Ajax. We wish that we had got this out a little earlier, but the editors got extremely busy! Show Notes Ben discusses his Microsoft trip The Avalon/WPF and WPF/E announcement IE 7 Native XMLHttpRequest Microsoft going after Read the rest…
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Category: Articles
Ajax is geting everywhere. C|Net News.com has just published Ajax gives software a fresh look, where they delve into the world and promise of Ajax: An emerging Web development technique promises to shake up the status quo in PC software and blur the line between desktop and Web applications. Over the years, desktop applications tied Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Gap.com has gone through a recent relaunch. The big changes are that they have gone XHTML Strict, and no tables are to be seen. They also have added subtle UI changes, many using Ajax. These include: QuickLook: When you mouseover some clothing, a QuickLook icon appears that you can click on. This opens a new Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Thierry Nivelet, and his team at Abaque have worked on an Ajax-based catalog (in french for now). It looks and feels like an old school rich application (buttons etc) :) View the Demo:
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
