Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
Category: Announcements
, Dojo
Dojo 0.9 has been released in beta. This is a brand new Dojo, and a very exciting time for the project: SPEED: Stripped of all ‘excessive’, redundant, and backwards-compatible code, the new Dojo core is a speed-demon. It consists of a streamlined, compact Base (aka: dojo.js) which provides a plethora of reliable features for you Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript
, Library
, Scriptaculous
Nick Stakenburg has written a nice simple tooltip built on Script.aculo.us called Effect.Tooltip. It is as simple to setup as: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: new Effect.Tooltip(element, content, {title : 'title', className: 'class', offset: {x:0, y:0}});
Category: iPhone
, JavaScript
Christopher Lukic has created an iPhone application that has been optimized with the network issues in mind. It's a bar and subway finder for New York City, and I implement a number of techniques to overcome some of the short coming of AT&T's edge network. Virtually the entire site is composed from a single javascript Read the rest...
Category: .NET
, JavaScript
, Library
Are you writing classic ASP pages and want to join in the Ajax revolution too? Really? Well, Ajaxed is for you. The framework is simialr to xajax for PHP, in that it allows you to tie in to a named function on th eserver side. It looks like this: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: <!--#include virtual="/ajaxed/ajaxed.asp"--> Read the rest...
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Monday, July 2nd, 2007
Category: Ajax
, Roundup
High Level / Big News June has been a busy month, and the focus has been around the release of Google Gears, and the Apple iPhone. Both have shaken up the market showing the the future for Ajax is bright and expanding. It is reaching to the desktop, and the phone. Offline: Gears and AIR Read the rest...
Category: Announcements
, jQuery
The jQuery team has a new release, jQuery 1.1.3. The main features are: Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2 A re-written event system, with more graceful handling of keyboard events A re-written effects system (with an accompanying fx test suite), featuring faster execution and better cross-platform support New selectors: Unicode, Read the rest...
Category: iPhone
, JavaScript
, Performance
John Murch has been running some benchmarks on both his iPhone and MacBook Pro to get a comparison . For example, JSSpeed: iPhone Try/Catch with errors 378 Layer movement 3078 Random number engine (Did not compute) Math engine 3474 DOM speed Testing… (998/1000) Array functions 1739 String functions 535 Ajax declaration 1089 Total Duration 10293 Read the rest...
Sunday, July 1st, 2007
Category: iPhone
, Mobile
It is no surprise that a bunch of news over the weekend has been related to developers spending time with the iPhone. We aren't interested in "i love the iPhone" posts, but there are some interesting ones such as Firebug for iPhone. Joe Hewitt was sick thinking about debugging with alert() again, and didn't want Read the rest...
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