Friday, March 30th, 2007
Category: Office, Presentation
Kevin Henrikson of Zimbra gave a presentation on Ajax Unplugged at ETech. The presentation discusses the various options for offline that are out there, the approach Zimbra has taken, and the challenges for the developer: Selecting *what* to take offline Security risks Does the user need it? Can they use it offline? Sync is hard Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Security
Clipperz is an online password system that contains a JavaScript library to provide web developers with an extensive and efficient set of cryptographic functions. It is released under a BSD license. Clipperz include portions of code from few third party libraries, such as: MochiKit, YUI and Ext to allows smoother and quicker coding. In order Read the rest…
InfiView is a mapping development tool that empowers engineers to build infinite-sized Web 2.0 mind maps, network topologies, organization charts, LDAP tools and technical diagrams. InfiView uses Ajax technology and its own unique dynamic memory management to enable developers to systematically create graphical web applications using any amount of data (from very small all the Read the rest…
Thursday, March 29th, 2007
Joe Walker has discussed the progress of the OpenAjax Hub. He has participated in a demo of using the OpenAjax Hub with DWR or Lightstreamer. TIBCO GI is the UI side, and it plugs into either backends with no code changes. With a traditional request/response model, DWR (and Lightstreamer) would be calling GI routines to Read the rest…
Dylan Schiemann has posted his presentations on dojo.gfx which are themselves written in dojo.gfx instead of Powerpoint/Keynote/S5. Web Vector Graphics and Dojo – Draw This! Web Vector Graphics: Myth or Reality? Vector Graphics and Comet with Dojo It would be nice if you some key bindings were put into the presentations :)
Category: Canvas, Conferences
, IE
, Microsoft
Microsoft made some interesting statements at their Microsoft Technical Summit event (MTS07) this week. Pete LePage, a Product Manager on the IE team, gathered a small swath of the academic, business, and open-source community constituents in a room, chatted about the future of IE, and asked for feedback. Some interested bits: It turns out Microsoft Read the rest…
Victor Morales was inspired by the ADO.NET disconnected data model, and it's "Dataview" which led him to implement something similar for YUI. He created a subclass of DataTable that allows the user to filter rows in the datatable, without the need to make another XHR call. Row Filtering The class YAHOO.dpu.widget.DataTable adds the "defaultView" property, Read the rest...
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Category: Offline
Zimbra has had a local proxy solution for a long time, so it only made sense that they would innovate quickly to come up with Zimbra Desktop: Zimbra Desktop is the next generation leap forward for Web 2.0 applications- now you can have Zimbra's Ajax-based collaboration experience online and offline. That means when you are Read the rest...
Category: JavaScript, Library
Franky Braem and his team have created wxJavaScript, a UI toolkit that started out as a port of wxWidgets: But at this time, wxJavaScript is a lot more. wxJavaScript has an Apache module mod_wxjs, an SQLite module, ... And many other modules are planned. So with wxJavaScript, you can write server side scripts for generating Read the rest...
Category: Announcements, JavaScript
, Presentation
I wish I could have seen Adam McCrea give a presentation on JavaScript Metaprogramming and how: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: with(JavaScript) { metaprogramming.is("possible"); } His slides do a good job at explaining the talk (which is tough to do). The presentation quickly delves into an example where he evolves the solution to the Read the rest...
Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
Category: Component, JavaScript
, Library
, Prototype
Ryan Johnson is up to his tricks again. This time he has created Control.Modal, an unobtrussive CSS modal window based on the Prototype library. It weighs in at around 8K and hit a sweet spot for some functionality. The Prototype window class was overkill, and he needed more than just a lightbox). Example Code PLAIN Read the rest...
Category: Announcements, JavaScript
, Library
We get several emails a day from people letting us know about a new XHR wrapper. Recently we have been hearing about new libraries from leaders in the community such as Dean Edwards and now Dustin Diaz. Here is what Dustin has to say about DED|Chain, his new framework that builds on YUI: DED|Chain is Read the rest...
You gotta love the Web 2.0. Only now do you get gems such as the Stripe Generator, a tool that lets you tweak a bunch of settings to produce the stripes that you need for your own Web 2.0 application.
CrowdRules is a Ruby on Rails website that lets the community rank videos. Igal Koshevoy told us about the new site that is in beta: CrowdRules is a "crowd-powered content recommendation engine". We use Ajax in a few, carefully-selected parts of our application to improve the user experience. Our application is written using Ruby on Read the rest...
Monday, March 26th, 2007
Category: Articles, JavaScript
, Library
Dean Edwards has followed up on his base2 library posting with another way to use base2 and rules for JavaScript Library Authors. In "the other way" Dean shows how to use the library as library functions instead of strapping on to objects, and his library rules are: Be unobtrusive Object.prototype is verboten! Do Not Over-extend Read the rest...
Category: Dojo, JavaScript
, Library
David Alberts of yWorks GmbH has created yFiles AJAX, a library for creating web based diagrams built on top of the Dojo Toolkit. A couple of demos are available such as: Graph Viewer The Graph Viewer Demo Application demonstrates viewing a graph with zooming, panning, overview and additional node and edge information. Realizing a slightly 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...
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