Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Category: Component, RichTextWidget
We recently covered the Dojo Rich Text Editor. Here’s FCKEditor, another widget that aims to be easy for users to work with and easy for developers to install and customise. Support for keyboard shortcuts is impressive, but the browser gets in the way sometimes. I got burned a couple of times with Cmd-Left, which in Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Neo CMS is rich CMS tool that allows you to do WYSIWYG editing on your website directly. When you are logged into your site, you will see a toolbar above it, that allows you to make changes to your site. These changes can be as simple as changing content and design on the fly, or Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
We are proud to announce that Michael Mahemoff of the popular AjaxPatterns.org has joined the Ajaxian.com team. Together, Ajaxian.com and Ajax Patterns is going to offer even more information for users of Ajax technology. Expect to see cross pollination between the sites, and in the podcasts. And, if there is anything that you wish to Read the rest…
Monday, November 21st, 2005
Category: Examples
AOL takes a cautious step towards Ajax with its rebranded image manager,AOL Pictures (login required). It’s not exactly Ajax as we know it: Most tools, including those used for photo editing and batch uploading, are not AJAX, but are Active X controls, meaning only users of Internet Explorer will be able to use them. And Read the rest…
Over at Binary Bonsai, they have a nice example of Live Archives. The archive refreshes asynchronously, and you are able to view the content via date (chronological), tagging, and categories. As well as the obligatory Tag Cloud, they also have a graph representation of the popularity of their tags, which is actually easier to view. Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
The Search Engine Experiment is a great idea. It searches Google, Yahoo!, and MSN in parallel, for the purpose of having you rank relevance (not to use it as a multiple search engine, there are plenty of those). You get the results back, not knowing which match to a particular engine, and you select which Read the rest…
Category: .NET
Brian Goldfarb is a Microsoft Product Manager, and he answered questions on Microsoft’s plans for tools to make Ajax development easier by Infomation Week. What will you see in this Q&A? He has to put in “its roots in what Microsoft invented almost 8 years ago with IE4 (DHTML) and IE5 (XMLHttp).” :) What is Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Why the lucky stiff is talking about the JSON and YAML camps coming together. Why made the linkage that JSON and YAML are quite similar, and an amazing thing happened. Normally if tech X and tech Y were similar what would happen? Leader A would want to make it more different to distinguish it! And, Read the rest…
Sunday, November 20th, 2005
Category: Articles
Ajax is truly a worldwide phenomenon, so here is a collection of links in languages that I can’t read. Since I can’t provide commentary, I’ll just link to them with some offhand remarks: Three German articles: one at ZDNet.de, one that probably has “next generation” in the title: Ajax: die nächste Generation der Web-Anwendungen, and Read the rest…
Category: Fun, JavaScript
, Library
We recently mentioned a log4js logging toolkit on the site. There is another version of this at log4js.sourceforge.net. And, others quickly mentioned their favorite logging engine for JavaScript (e.g. Safari lets you talk to the console via an api). Enter: ACAL The Ajaxian team has seen this kind of thing before, on the Java side. Read the rest…
Category: Java, Screencast
Sun has created a flash screencast that aims to show off Java Studio Creator. Java Studio Creator is a JavaServer Faces-based IDE, that happens to contain a bunch of Ajax components that you can use. This means that you can do some drag and drop Ajax development. The screencast has the following sections: Introduction Production Read the rest…
Saturday, November 19th, 2005
Why are you covering an RC5 build?, I hear you ask. Well, because Thomas (and a growing team) tends to put cool features into every build :) The latest build does more than fix a few bugs here and there, before we get to 1.5 final. It also adds: Update lib/prototype.js to Prototype 1.4.0_rc3 Support Read the rest…
Category: Fun, JavaScript
I know it. You were sitting there on the weekend thinking that you wish you had a JavaScript OS to play with. You are in luck, as it exists :) JS/UIX JS/UIX is an UN*X-like OS for standard web-browsers, written entirely in JavaScript (no plug-ins used). It comprises a vir- tual machine, shell, virtual file-system, Read the rest…
Friday, November 18th, 2005
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Screencast
, Toolkit
MochiKit, a lightweight JavaScript library, has a new 1.1 release. As well as the typical myriad of bug fixes, the new features are: MochiKit.DOM.currentWindow and currentDocument allow you to change the global window and/or document object used by all MochiKit.DOM functions, which allows you to use mock DOM objects (great for testing), deal in a Read the rest…
Luke Wroblewski, a usability guy, has written about Ajax Dialog Windows. He analyzes the new world of poping up dialog windows, rather than having to send people to new pages for those tasks. This technique makes perfect sense when: You only need to capture a little content You don’t want to end up on a Read the rest…
Friday fun is here. llor.nu has a fun simple game written using Rails, that feels like a board game (e.g. monopoly). Check out llor.nu for some time wasting
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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