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Wednesday, August 24th, 2005
Bitkraft Web Library was developed as a web framework that extends the Microsoft Asp.net framework to provide more dynamic user interaction via ajax and json. Bitkraft is a CLR based (.NET) web framework that allows distributed web content to be created and served in a unique fashion. It is written in C# and compiles for Read the rest…
We are hearing a lot of timewarps back to 1999/2000+, and Brad Neuberg joins in the back-think: Commercial Wikis such as SocialText and Jot have come out with in-place editing using DHTML and AJAX. Recently I was looking through some old CDs and found a project I created named OpenPortal that prototyped similar techniques…..in 1999 Read the rest…
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
Category: Showcase
Ryan Petrain commented on Protopage and linked over to WinLike, a window manager for the browser: WinLIKE is the first professional Window-Manager for web browsers. With WinLIKE, developers can provide web applications, websites and portals with little windows – like you are used to from your desktop. WinLIKE is based on DHTML and is only Read the rest…
Category: Toolkit
Brendon Crawford has announced AJFORM 1.0 AJFORM is a JavaScript toolkit which simply submits data from any given form in an HTML page, then sends the data to any specified JavaScript function. AJFORM degrades gracefully in every aspect. In other words, if the browser doesn’t support it, the data will be sent through the form Read the rest…
Category: Calendar, Screencast
, Showcase
Maarten Stolte pointed me to a flash demo of a new ajaxian calendar: Hula. Hula is getting a new web interface, and it kicks ass, as this (flash) demo shows Can’t wait to check out the javascript and CSS that powers all that AJAX interaction and css fades. Pay attention to the sides of the Read the rest…
Monday, August 22nd, 2005
Category: Editorial
Dion Hinchcliffe has written a fairly comprehensive view of the current developments, progress, and general state of affairs with Ajax and its techniques and available tools. Also, for corporate application development and architects, the article goes into the current known implications of Ajax and Service-Oriented Architectures, which will affect each other considerably as they evolve. Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Wow. You have to check out Protopage. As Michael Mahemoff said: “So Ajaxian” :) Once you go there, you can create your own Protopage, in which you can have fun: Creating links to your favourite sites Quick portlet access to search Sticky notes that you can minimize Personalize A couple of interesting UI items are: Read the rest…
Category: Google, Mapping
, Showcase
gVisit is a new ajaxian application that allows you to put a snippet of JavaScript in your pages, and then view the location of your site viewers to get a feel for where you are targetting. Kinda fun :) Update: take a look at yourself on the ajaxian.com tracking
Friday, August 19th, 2005
Category: Articles, Dojo
, JavaScript
, Toolkit
Ok, we admit it. This ajaxian community loves Dojo. True JavaScript professionals. So, it is nice to see the recent set of information coming out from them. This time, they discuss the Dojo event system (dojo.event.*) Unlike the DOM events that web programmers normally associate with the word “event”, Dojo takes a broad view of Read the rest…
Over at poocs.net they are improving CMS usability. The matter at hand is manipulating images, and doing so in a simple browser based environment: . The first prototype of the drag’n’drop image placement interface was done in a few hours of Disrupted Development (you know those days when people just don’t care whether you’re trying Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Brad Neuberg saw that “no one has been able to get Safari to work with any known hack for detecting if the user has touched the back or forward buttons in an AJAX app, or getting bookmarkability to work.” He decided to dig deep and found: You can indeed see through document.location.href and document.location.hash that Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
The press has been asking me a lot about the correlation between Ajax and Web services. Somehow they seem to really want to put some link together there :) “Will Ajax help increase web service development?” The piece, Can Ajax be running partner of Web services?, goes into this: “While Ajax isn’t a necessary part Read the rest…
Thursday, August 18th, 2005
Category: JavaScript
It was obvious that Mr. Damage Control would come up with nice continous integration with JavaScript. Jon ended up with: desc “Runs all the JavaScript unit tests and collects the results” JavaScriptTestTask.new(:unittest) do |t| t.mount(“/lib”) t.mount(“/src”) t.mount(“/test”) t.run(“/test/unit/unittest_test.html”) t.run(“/test/unit/ajax_inplaceeditor_test.html”) t.run(“/test/unit/string_test.html”) t.run(“/test/unit/builder_test.html”) t.browser(:safari) t.browser(:firefox) end Can’t wait to see it out in the wild.
Category: Showcase
Over at 11TMR, a rich Ajaxian name picker was created: One of the things which has bugged me for a long time is getting a good name picker. We have been using a servlet on our Domino server for a long time which looks at views in the NAB and allows the user to select Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
It seemed appropriate based on the last post, to put up the editorial on SVG + Ajax. Definitely an exciting combination and I hope that it is both solid in Firefox, and IE7. The UI protocol of the future: SVG + Ajax: ale a look at the SVG standard ( http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/ ), especially the DOM Read the rest…
Category: Flash, Google
, Mapping
John Dowdell at Macromedia has hit out at Ajax compared to Flash for something like a mapping UI (Flash example here): I’m slow on this — Paul Neave posted it Friday — but it’s a great example of how a single, universal, and predictable graphics/interactivity engine can deliver a much more enjoyable user experience than Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
