Friday, November 18th, 2005
Category: Articles, ColdFusion
Rob Gonda has written a series of Ajax articles in the ColdFusion Developer Journal. He starts at the beginning, with So what is AJAX? and by the end of the article you’ll be able to set up AJAX, a ColdFusion model, make basic calls, and exchange simple data. As the applications grow and become more Read the rest…
Thursday, November 17th, 2005
Category: Editorial
The W3C is kicking into gear and trying to create standards around the de-facto standards of items such as XMLHttpRequest. They have created a new Web APIs Working Group, that mirrors a lot of the WhatWG, with the mission of: The mission of the W3C Web API Working Group is to develop specifications that enable Read the rest…
Category: .NET, Examples
, Presentation
, Screencast
Atlas is Microsoft’s big push into the Ajax space for the .NET platform (read our past posts or read Scott Guthrie’s “Atlas Unleashed” for more info). Well, XML for ASP posted the strangely named “Using Atlas to View Customers”. It has sample code and a video presentation of a demo app using Atlas to retrieve Read the rest…
Category: Accessibility, JavaScript
, Prototype
, Ruby
Encytemedia has a series of articles discussing graceful degradation with Ajax and how to handle the issues with Rails, Prototype, and Scriptaculous. Part one deals with the problem of degrading when the user has Javascript disabled, and illustrates with a couple simple examples. Part two looks at some possible solutions using Behaviour and the author’s Read the rest…
Jonathan Boutelle has written Flash: what is it good for?, and many people have options on Ajax, Flash, Ajax with Flash, and more. There are a few things that I would love to see improved in Flash, to make me like it more: Integrate with my browsers saved fields. When I go to a site Read the rest…
Mercury Tide has written a mini-paper on Issues when working with Ajax. They cover basic items to do with working with XMLHttpRequest, focusing on cross-browser issues. Getting the XMLHttpRequest Object They start with how to get the object itself: function getNewXMLHttpRequest() { var obj; try { // For Internet Explorer. obj = new ActiveXObject(‘Microsoft.XMLHTTP’); } Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 16th, 2005
Category: Editorial
James Strachan has written some flame bait with Is Ajax gonna kill the web frameworks? :) His contention is that: The Java eco system has zillions of web frameworks from JSF, Tapestry, Struts, WebWork, Spring WebFlow to things like JSP/JSTL/Velocity etc. There’s probably a new web framework born every day in Java some place. However Read the rest…
Category: Examples
The Meatball wiki has added ajax functionality to its RecentChanges page and the history view of diffs for a page. You can read the reasoning and some implementaton details for this at the AsynchronousAutorefresh page on Meatball: Therefore, add asynchronous auto-refreshing to RecentChanges for those browsers that support it. Highlight new information, both graphically and Read the rest…
Category: Podcasts
We had the pleasure of interviewing Joe Walker of the Direct Web Remoting (DWR) project. Show Notes Introducing Joe and DWR How does DWR work? How does DWR differ from JSON-RPC? How can you get access to Java classes? What are your thoughts on issues using Ajax? What are some of the issues with the Read the rest…
Arve Bersvendsen has been working away in silence for the last few months at Opera. His team has been working on Opera Platform: Opera Software released a beta version of Opera Platform SDK, a software development kit for developing and running Web applications on mobile phones. With Opera Platform SDK, developers can rapidly develop Web Read the rest…
Category: Library
Stephan Strittmatter has written about adopting Log4J in JavaScript, and came up with log4js. There are already three appenders to get the output of logging: Write out the logs to a additional popup window in browser with WindowAppender. I was also inspired by Dan Allen Logging via Meta and added an appender using his idea Read the rest…
Tuesday, November 15th, 2005
Category: Examples
One of the meme’s of Web 2.0 seems to be the tag rolls that you see on sites like del.icio.us. They give you the instant cue to “what is hot” on the site, in a fun way. Del.icio.us just gave us a way to add these tagrolls to our sites, and what is fun about Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
It seems quite apt to post about Measure Map the day after Urchin got re-released as Google Analytics. Adaptive Path (I think you have heard of them ;) saw that the web statistics out there were focused on the world of pages, and that bloggers wanted to think of a world in posts, comments, links Read the rest…
One of the definite patterns in Ajax is the activity indicator, the tool that we use to let a user know that we are talking back to the server, at that point. Thomas Fuchs of script.aculo.us has written up how to simply do this in a Rails-based application: Create an element on the page that Read the rest…
Category: Accessibility, Toolkit
, UI
, Usability
Are you tired of wondering if your finely crafted interface will look correct in Safarai or the latest Konqueror on Linux? If so, check out browsershots. Just enter the URL you want screenshots for and it gets added to the queue. Check back (the delay is around a 12 hours lately) and you’re screenshots will Read the rest…
Monday, November 14th, 2005
Category: Component, Examples
, JavaScript
Veerendra Shivhare has made an interesting “live tree” view of Amazon’s entire product catalog. He expanded upon the JSCookTree component so that each level of the tree retrieves Amazon product data in the background. Its an interesting way to view Amazon’s catalog, and illustrates what you can do by extending a plain javascript component with Read the rest…
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...
JQuery Function Not Defined?
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