Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Monthly Ajaxian Roundup for September, 2007: JavaScript mashups take a step forward
September was a big month for Ajax development in my opinion. The new JavaScript API that lets you do cross domain secure read-write tells us what will be possible in the future. Now mashups can go from the useful read-only mashing, to powerful applications that let you do everything you need too.
We also saw more tips and tricks in JavaScript land, as well as expansions to new worlds.
Thanks for spending time participating in the community, and I look forward to the Autumn.
Dojo
Ext
- File uploader for the Ext framework
- First milestone of next gen Spring Web Flow released, now includes the Ext framework
- Ext 2.0: Scrolling Tabs, Anchor Layout, the Web Desktop, and more
Prototype
jQuery
- jQuery v1.2: Major new release, sneak peak at jQuery UI
- Lazy Load Plugin for jQuery
- jQuery UI: Interactions and Widgets
YUI
- YUI 2.3.1 released: Eases customization, RTE performance increase and bug fixes
- YUI Dom Collection’s Region methods to the rescue!
- Asynchronous File Upload with YUI
- Yojo: Loading YUI with the Dojo loader
Browsers
- On Browser WYSIWYG
- Opera 9.5 Alpha release reviewed. Gets some nice goodies.
- Update to Internet Explorer’s Cookie Jar
- IE Microformats Bookmarklet
- IE Feedback: Closed for Business
- IE6 Leak on Form Tag
- IE’s Memory Leak Fix Greatly Exaggerated
- JSONRequest Extension for Firefox
- The Browser.Next List
JavaScript
- Google launches JavaScript API that allows you to write back
- Traffik: Using the cross domain read write API
- More fun with DOMContentLoaded
- IEContentLoaded: Yet another DOMContentLoaded
- Douglas Crockford’s Elements of JavaScript Style
- Sprinkle In Your JavaScript
- Facebook released FBJS
- CrossSafe: Secure Cross Domain JSON
- JSONPath: XPath for JSON Structures
- replaceHTML for when innerHTML dogs you down
- Finding ‘send’ in JavaScript
- SmoothGallery 2.0
- Reiterate: Symbol#to_proc for JavaScript
- JPU: JavaScript CPU Monitor
- Go Ajax, Young Man
- “Ajax” Forever?
- How to build a cross-browser history management system
- RichFaces 3.1: JSF and Ajax
- jabsorb: A new JSON-RPC for Java
- JS-CTYPES: Calling out to native code from XUL
- jMaki 1.0 Final Release: Ajax for Java and PHP
- WebRunner 0.7 Released
- Yahoo! introduces new “Vote to Promote” pattern
- ActiveState announces The Open Komodo Project
- Silverlight 1.0 Released: Linux via Moonlight and Expression Encoder
- SVG on IE via Silverlight via XSLT
- Video: Steve Souders, Chief Performance Yahoo for Yahoo!, discusses site performance
- Premature Ajax-ulations: Ajax Security… It’s Still The Web
- ZK 3.0 RC Released
- Accordion 2.0
- Flexjson 1.5: Transformers and Filters
Offline
- Vortex: A new offline abstraction on top of Google Gears
- Gears and the Mashup Problem
- Sybase Shows Auto Change Tracking and Syncing with Google Gears and iAnywhere
- Making offline web applications even simpler:
- Gears Case Study: What we learned from Remember The Milk
- The Digg Oracle: Data mining on the client
iPhone
- ipodtouch.ajaxian.com?
- GWT and the iPhone sitting in a tree…
- Canvas Loading Indicator for the iPhone and beyond
Adobe
- The Pros and Cons of Adobe AIR
- Adobe Flex vs. Gaia Ajax Widgets: The gloves come off!
- Snook gives Adobe AIR a try
- Taking your Web Development skills to the desktop Using Adobe Integrated Runtime
Ajaxian Featured Tutorials
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Parsing XML with jQuery
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: AutoCompleter 101
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Extending DOM elements Prototype’s
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Understanding CSS floating
- Ajaxian Featured Tutorial: Extending ColdFusion’s Ajax and UI capabilities
Design
- CSS 3 and where we could be
- CSSVista: Tweak CSS and see it in IE and Firefox at the same time
- CSS Sprite Generator Released
- Should we use CSS frameworks?
- A Cheaky Way to Style an input type=”file”
- Web Developers, Where Are We Now?
- Curl.js: Curl your images
- Aza Raskin’s Case for Undo
- gefingerpoken: Multi Touch Gestures
- If I Told You You Had a Beautiful Figure…
- Primary & Secondary Actions in Web Forms
- Freeze Pane Functionality
Comet
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Prototype is taking a break from it all, did they give up? They are awfully quiet, maybe they are cooking up something fresh.
Nice article..