Monday, August 31st, 2009
Category: Mobile
We posted on jQTouch, the jQuery based iUI-esque toolkit that David Kaneda created. Today they have released a new version which improves on their extensible system with: Improved 3D flip transition Callback events throughout for page transitions, swipe events, and orientation changes Included demos: Clock, To-do, Main functional demo Theming: Currently has Apple and jQTouch Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Showcase
As soon as we developed Bespin we wanted a world where we could create an application in the editor and see it live… and then edit it all live too! Server-side JS makes this quite possible. Clamato is experimenting in this way too, albeit slightly differently: Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to Read the rest…
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Category: Browsers, CSS
Hello Ajaxians, my name is Paul Young and I am the co-founder of Skybound Software. We’re the company behind Stylizer, which is a real-time CSS editing tool. We’re taking a pretty radical approach to CSS editing, and as such, a lot of what I do is “web technology research”, which is looking for better ways Read the rest…
Thursday, August 27th, 2009
Category: Library
We have talked about Aristo, the creative commons look and feel from 280 North and Sofa, quite a few times. Allen Pike has posted a comparison of Aristo with the new Ace look and feel that SproutCore recently added. It is great to see great looking stuff coming from these open source JavaScript libraries!
Wednesday, August 26th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Testing
It has been a pleasure to watch John build TestSwarm and see its alpha release today. It is an ambitious project to help developers get real world testing across browsers. Here you can see it all at work: John talks about some of the fun challenges: TestSwarm ended up being a very challenging project to Read the rest…
Category: Canvas
The infamous excanvas has had a Silverlight bridge for some time. It is faster, yet has some artifacts and most people stick with good ole VML. David Anson has put his hat in the ring by creating a new prototype canvas implementation in Silverlight. Thanks to Silverlight’s HTML Bridge, I had no trouble creating a Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009
Category: Articles, GWT
Sorry about the cheesy title, I couldn’t resist. In one of those moods I guess. Chris Lowe has posted a detailed example of a new-age GWT application that uses lots of cool tech based on Ray Ryans talk on
Monday, August 24th, 2009
Category: Ajax, Ajaxian.com Announcements, Conferences, The Ajax Experience
This Friday, August 28 marks the $100 off early-bird deadline for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. Friday is your last chance to save $100 off the registration fee. Visit the conference site to register now! Below is the latest agenda at-a-glance with over 40 essential sessions, case studies, interactive panels and insightful Read the rest…
Category: Announcements, SVG
The final registration for the SVG Open 2009 conference is coming up the end of this month! Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG, is an open, browser-based standard that makes it easy to create interactive web graphics. SVG is great as it’s part of the HTML 5 family of technologies while being search engine friendly; easy Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
Piers Lawson has come up with an interesting new technique for cross domain communication using an iframe and not having to poll the location for a #hashchange: Most articles on using the URL Fragment technique advocate the target iFrame polling its Location to detect changes in the fragment… perhaps checking 5 times a second. Julien Read the rest…
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009
Category: CSS
Alex Russell has been having a really interesting discussion with some standards folks about what is wrong on the Web right now, and it narrowed down to discuss CSS variables as a case study (it aint perfect, but get DRY and ship it!) Alex tells it how it is, but people forget that he does Read the rest…
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Category: Browsers, Firefox
Felipe Gomes has extended multitouch support in Firefox to reach into content space (i.e. us Web devs can use it!). Checking out the sexy demos in the video above will make you pine for the day (not long!) where all laptop screens support touch (my son thinks they are already ;) We have three new Read the rest…
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Category: JavaScript
Peter Michaux posted about going all the way with a full client-server app view that looks like: HTML4 < view plain text > < !DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <title>The App</title> </head> <body> <script src="/static/js/the-app/bootstrap.js" type="text/javascript"></script> </body> </html> Joel Webber then showed what the GWT Showcase example could look like (a touch different): HTML4 Read the rest…
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Category: Ajax
The Mullet: Business up front, party in the rear Kyle has take the XHR API that we all know and…. wrap…. and married it with a JSON-P transport to make jXHR. He tells us more: I’ve put out a very simple little project called jXHR which does cross-domain Ajax via JSON-P calls (meaning, totally javascript Read the rest…
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
Category: JavaScript
Ray Cromwell has a great article on techniques he has used with JavaScript compression to bring down the payload of your Ajax application. There are some fantastic advantages to JavaScript being “binary as source” but there is also a real issue with it. We have to make a trade-off on verbose code…. even with minifiers Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
Category: Browsers, CSS, Mozilla
Firefox 3.6 alpha releases have already arrived and there are already cool new features on the heals of the 3.5 release, as well as rapid speed improvements. People have focused on the new CSS improvements (Acid3 now gets 94/100) such as the tweaked CSS gradient support: css < view plain text > .heading { Read the rest…
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