Thursday, November 24th, 2005
Category: JavaScript
Some of us have been developing in an environment where JavaScript 1.5 is available. One of the small but cool features that you really miss when you get back to the real world of supporting legacy browsers, is getter and setters. Getters and Setters are all about encapsulating field access. They are similar to .NET Read the rest…
Category: Java, JavaScript
, Toolkit
A new Ajax/XUL framework named ZK has been released. ZK is designed to enable Web applications to have both the rich user experiences and the simple programming model. ZK includes an AJAX-based event-driven engine to automate interactivity, and a rich set of XUL-based components. With ZK, you represent your application in feature-rich XUL components, and Read the rest…
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2005
Category: Usability
Over at AjaxInfo, Alexei White is discussing the risks of Ajax on the public web. The second of three postings looks at several cultural risks: Heterogenous culture and expectations. Users are not very trainable. Short attention span. A few of the solutions include: Do affordance testing. Keep it lightweight. Ajax as value-added functionality. Liberal use Read the rest…
Category: Examples, Mapping
, UI
Panoramio.com is a new photo service/Google Maps mash up. Although there are similiar mashups, this one stands out because of its simple, well designed interface. You upload a photo just by clicking on the location on the map and filling out the pop up form, without any need to log in. There is a nice Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
There is the theory of a platform, and there is the practicality of an implementation of that platform. In our world, we need to deal with the implementations of JavaScript in the browsers we are targetting. Quirksmode is talking about memory leaks and a thread on Dojo jumped in on one of the issues too. Read the rest…
Opera came out with their Mobile SDK last week, allowing us to think about the Ajax development model on the mobile phone. Does IE Mobile Support AJAX? … YES We’ve recently been getting questions regarding whether IE Mobile (aka Pocket IE, PIE, IEMO) supports AJAX. The answer: Yes, PocketPC and Smartphone devices 2003 and later, Read the rest…
Category: UI
ColorBlender utilizes components that talk to eachother to give the layman a nice color match for any work that they are doing. A color slider, patchwork of colors, and mini variations hexagon all talk to eachother.
Tuesday, November 22nd, 2005
Category: Builds, Flash
, JavaScript
haXe is an open-source programming language supporting portable code across the different web platforms: Ajax, Flash, and server-side. Developer Nicolas Cannasse lists its capabilities: create Flash SWF files using Flash APIs for Players 6,7,8 and soon 8.5. generate Javascript code using Browser DHTML API, so you can create AJAX web applications. generate Neko sourcecode that Read the rest…
Category: Podcasts
In our eigth show, we discuss the state of ajax for the week November 14th. This includes discusing new framework news for Script.aculo.us and MochiKit, gotchas with the XHR object, the place for modal dialogs on the web, the W3C working groups, Ajax on the mobile, and much more. Show Notes JavaScript UNIX emulation. Is Read the rest…
Paul Graham’s latest essay on Web 2.0 is worth a read. He talks about the three componenents of web 2.0 – Ajax, democracy, and being good to your users. On Ajax: Basically, what “Ajax” means is “Javascript now works.” And on Microsoft’s slow reaction to the rise of Ajax and the resulting “leaked” memos: …the Read the rest…
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…
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...
IE 8 Crashing Problem
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two iSeries boxes - Dev and Prod both V5R4M0
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JQuery Function Not Defined?
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