Tuesday, March 6th, 2007
Couchville is another site that has stepped up to the plate to fill the void after the Yahoo! TV ruckus (there are others such as TV Listings. Couchville’s purpose is to be a simple TV listings website. In addition to being usable and fast, there are interesting features such as the draggable program guide (a Read the rest…
Monday, March 5th, 2007
Category: Showcase
When I went to United to look for some tickets I had a pleasant surprise. Normally I curse the website, as I do with most of the airline sites. We are used to some nice usable websites these days. We have rich date pickers and the like. The airlines often have us in old-school land, Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
AOL has launched their AIM Webmail beta that uses Dojo for rich interaction a la Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. AOL has been a long term fan of Dojo and it shows in view source: < View plain text > HTML <script type="text/javascript">var djConfig = { isDebug: false, debugAtAllCosts: false, useXDomain: false, debugContainerId: "wsDebugger" };</script> Read the rest…
Category: RichTextWidget, Showcase
If you are interested in the WYSIWYG race, then you have probably checked out Weebly. They relaunched this morning, adding the features: Bring your own domain, and we’ll still host your website at your domain for free. We’ve integrated SnipShot image editing so that users can edit, crop, resize and retouch images within the Weebly Read the rest…
Friday, March 2nd, 2007
BuildASign is a simple Ajax tool that lets you design signs. If you fancy printing a quick sign that uses Dojo on the client side to .Net on the back end, you have found the place.
Thursday, March 1st, 2007
ColorJack allows you to visualize color theory with the sphere. This reminds us of Kuler, the user generated color app from Adobe Labs. It is pretty amazing that so many people are sharing color groups :)
Category: Showcase
MiniAjax is a site that has gathered interesting dhtml examples (many of which we have covered in the past) and put them together. They link to classics such as: Prototype Window Reflections Bubble Tooltips Ajax Tabs Google X
Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Nikola Kocic has created Spellify, a AJAX driven web application which uses the Google spell checker to automatically spell check and display spelling suggestions after the user stops typing. The site was launched back in November 2006 and is currently in Beta. It also supports several languages and can spell check any pasted or typed Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Snowvision is the second site created by Diversion Media (who created Travelistic). Snowvision features a drag and drop playlist integrated with fullscreen flash player, dynamic resort picker and an Ajax driven upload process. It was written using Prototype and Script.aculo.us on Ruby on Rails.
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Category: Business, Calendar
, Email
, Google
, Office
, Showcase
From the You-Know-When-Ajax-Has-Gone-Mainstream-Dept, Google announced today it will be offering businesses a premium service for its key productivity applications, at $50/user/year. The package includes: Access to office-style applications – Google Docs & Spreadsheets, Google Page Creator. No presentation package yet – perhaps Google should acquire S5 :-). Access to communication applications – GMail (@your-own-domain), Google Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007
What Should I Say? is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout. An example check out the very visual sorting:
Monday, February 19th, 2007
Hans Schmucker has created a proof of concept for 3D Renderer using Canvas. I’ve written another 3D Renderer for the Canvas element… however it is differet to the existing implementations, this one loads a standard Alias Wavefront OBJ file and renders it. It’s not as far as it could be so far (mainly because the Read the rest…
Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Category: Showcase
Comeeko is a new Ajax application from the guys behind Buttonator and PikiPimp. Comeeko allows you to build comic strips out of your own photos (or anything that you upload). The tool itself is a very simple ajax driven application: We have long thought about doing an ajaxian consultant comic strip with Comic Life. Maybe Read the rest…
Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Category: Showcase
SilverStripe is an opensource CMS from Wellington, NZ. The admin piece is built using Prototype, Scriptaculous and the TinyMCE rich text editor. It uses Object Oriented PHP5 and talks to MySQL backend. There is a nice feel to using the explorer interface to manage files (e.g. hit rearrange and you can drag and drop), and Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 13th, 2007
Category: Performance, Showcase
, Utility
Our own Michael Mahemoff has created WebWait. We will let him take it from here: I wanted a portable, consistent, way to benchmark Ajax web apps, that would show how long the wait is (though it’s useful for any app, especially if there were a lot of images, for instance). Using a command-line tool like Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
We recently featured Picnik a simple Flash image editor that we liked. It seemed to make some of the Ajax solutions look a little cheesy in comparison (no offense). Then we saw SnipShot a fully Ajax editor that is fairly similar to Picnik, with some features nicer, and others that we do not prefer. There Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
