Thursday, August 2nd, 2007
Monthly Ajaxian Roundup for July, 2007: iPhone and the Plugin Wars
Category: Roundup
The summer is traditionally a slow time, but this July had some fun happenings. The iPhone buzz continued, and Episode 2: The Plugin Wars continued. Mozilla announced that their front was moving the battle to enemy territory. Brendan Eich said, “If we fight them over in IE, they won’t come fight us over here” ;) He then launched his Iron Screaming Monkeys and Microsoft retaliated by hinting that “for performance reasons” they may have to take out the scripting host in future versions of IE.
iPhone
- Firebug for iPhone
- iPhone Javascript and spec benchmark
- New York on Tap iPhone App
- iPhone Web Development Tips and Official Documentation Released
- iPhone Native Looking Skin
- iPhoneDevCamp Wrapup Including IUI
- iUI gets even better: cleanup and features
- Joe Hewitt presentation on iUI (Video)
- iPhone Update: Pickleview, Dojo Chat, iUI generation, Ajax Search and more
Frameworks
Dojo
- Dojo 0.9: The next generation is here
- Dojo Offline: 0.9 and Gears
- Hacking Firebug with Dojo
- Why choose Dojo?
- AOL Mgnet with Dojo
Script.aculo.us
ExtJS
Yahoo! UI
jQuery
JavaScript
- JavaScript as a Language
- JavaScript running to the server
- Purple Include: Transclusions, you know you want them!
- Responder: Unobtrusive Framework
- JavaScript Strands: Adding Futures to JavaScript
- J4P5: JavaScript interpreter written in PHP 5
- DOMDom: More DOM, Less DOM
- Feed Discovery API added to AJAX Feed API
- Functional JavaScript
- @tomic XML-RPC JavaScript Client
Offline
- Google Gears ORM 0.1
- TrimPath is back, now with Gears
- Google Gears Roadmap and Features
- Google Gears for Offline Data Entry
- Sales Builder AIR Application Update
CSS
Browsers
- Mozilla Announces Screaming, Iron, Action Monkeys – Tamarin in IE
- ActionMonkey: Getting rid of the spiders in the browser
- WebKit and KHTML sitting in a tree…
- Browser Possesion
- Keybindings in Web Browsers
Tools
- Yahoo! Announces YSlow, Firebug based performance tool
- End-to-End Tracing of Ajax/Java Applications Using DTrace
- XRAY: Peer into your web pages
Showcases
- Uncluttr: A cleaner Amazon
- Prague 360: Maps with quality
- Versionate: Wiki / Document Collaboration
- Slideshow Karaoke
- InputDraw: Allow Drawing in Forms
- Timeplot: Canvas-based Specialized Charting Tool
- Cellsea Ajax Video Editor
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…is there any activity in this space?? pretty awesome to see.
“performance reasons”… ha… I usually bite my tongue… to put it lightly, Microshaft just seems to get more, not less, annoying in time… looking forward to the day when FF + Mozilla + Safari exceed 50% Market share.
(Firefox + Mozilla + Safari = 37.9% ‘browser usage’ vs. 19.7% IE7, 37.3% still using that dogsh*t IE6)
http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.asp
what happened to the survey – where are the results ?
Got a link to Microsoft’s statement that they might be removing the scripting host?
Yeah are they really removing the scripting host or was that just a joke?
This categorized, summary posting roundup for the month is excellent. I don’t recall seeing it presented this way before. In any case, I hope this continues for each month since it provides a great, quick reference.
I’m not sure Dion can say where he heard that “joke”, if it was a joke, or intended for publication. But it is hard to take seriously. The problems with taking it seriously range from backward incompatibility pain to antitrust action. So why would MS do anything of the kind? But then why joke?
/be