Sunday, September 11th, 2005
Category: Accessibility
Bob Easton has summarized research on how to build the best accessible speaking forms. The best practices are simple. Use the structural elements we’ve been given. Legends and labels are structural elements; highly recommended. Title attributes are very poor substitutes. The only reason to use them is as redundant information in the hopes that older Read the rest…
Saturday, September 10th, 2005
Just today, someone was asking why there wasn’t an open source ajaxian email system. Now there is with Zimbra. Zimbra is a community for building and maintaining next generation collaboration technology. Currently, this technology is available as a beta version. At Zimbra, our goal is to make e-mail, calendar, contacts and other communications technologies the Read the rest…
Friday, September 9th, 2005
Mention Safari to many JavaScripters, and they sigh. Look at many frameworks, libraries, and components, and you don’t see Safari on the list of supported browsers half the time. Alex Russell sees some hope with Safari 2.0.1 and maybe beyond? After much discussion recently with Erik, we decided that Safari was a lost cause when Read the rest…
Category: Fun
Why not waste your Friday away playing a Japanese version of Super Maryo Brothers ( via Michael Mahemoff )
Category: Java, LiveSearch
The Struts-Layout tag library now allows you to put Suggest fields on your web pages: It is very easy to use: You only have to use a simple JSP tag: <layout:suggest suggestAction=”/getCountrySuggestions” key=”Country” styleId=”countryField” value=”” /> where “/getCountrySuggestions” is a Struts action in which you instantiate a collection containing the results matching the typed word. Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Have you ever needed to do matrix multiplication in JavaScript ({{1,2},{3,4}}.{{1,2},{3,-4}}), or K-th Partitions (KPartitions[{a,b,c,d,e},3])? Now, we have an ajaxian symbolic calculator from Axel Kramer called MathEclipse. It’s an open source project at sf.net, and features: JavaScript auto-complete in the text-area (type ‘sin’ for example) Tomcat/Java servlet engine at the backend the math engine should Read the rest…
Thursday, September 8th, 2005
Category: CSS, Examples
, JavaScript
, UI
Web forms. Everybody knows web forms. Each day we have to fill in some information in a web form, be it a simple login to your webmail application, an online purchase or signing up for a website. They are the basic (and pretty much the only) way of gathering information on the web. You basically Read the rest…
Category: Component, RichTextWidget
, Showcase
We have had a lot of interest in Writely, a web word processor. Writely gives you a Word-like interface that appears just in your browser, and lets you: Create documents (you would hope, wouldn’t you?:) Share documents Joint editing Visit the Writely home page Go on the tour
Category: JavaScript, Ruby
, Showcase
John Carlin has created an ajaxian Football Pick’Em Game. It is a nice example of how Ajax can encapsulate your small application in one page. You simply pick the teams, and drag and drop them around! The game was built with Ruby on Rails and Scriptaculous.
Category: Accessibility, Articles
Amidst the cheer at the rise of the Ajaxian nation, we quickly found those who were not happy. “Your land is flawed”, they cried. “Although you the best of the best in certain situations, only certain citizens get these benefits”. “What about catering to the entire community!” Valid points were raised. Ryan Campbell has written Read the rest…
Category: Articles, JavaScript
, Library
Andrew Gross has written part one of a series of tutorials on using the MochiKit JavaScript framework to write Ajax web applications. The article goes into creating the beginnings of a Blog system: function BlogPost(info) { bindMethods(this); this.info = info; } BlogPost.prototype.makeDiv = function() { return DIV({‘class’ : ‘blogpost’}, H2(null, this.info.title), HR(), SPAN(null, this.info.content), BR(), Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 7th, 2005
Category: Component, JavaScript
Giorgio Braga has just released SuggestBox, a freeware AJAX component that can give to any web page the power of Google Suggest referred to own database tables. How to use it Add span tags with a SUGGEST attribute (e.g. <SPAN SUGGEST ID=”author”></SPAN>) Add the JavaScript libraries ( <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript” SRC=”SBinfo.js”></SCRIPT> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=”javascript” SRC=”SBcode.js”></SCRIPT>) On the Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Max Kiesler pointed us to Bandnews.org, a site that uses Ajax in a clean and simple way. Bandnews is a website which aggregates music news live from the web and allows you to save your personal favorites or add new bands to track. Scout, which is the bandnews bot collects the news from official band Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Dan Grossman, a VC from NYC, has put up his opinion on the top 10 Ajax appicatons: Kiko. A general purpose online calendar. Elegant interface and design. API coming soon. Backbase’s RSS Reader. Only a demo, so you can’t add your own feeds. Still, very nice. Backpack. To do list organizer and simple project management Read the rest…
Category: Library, RichTextWidget
Casey West has created WikiWYG. Wikiwyg is the simple way to add Wysiwyg editing to your existing social software project. You attach a WYSIWYG editor to any content area (div) that you wish to allow people to edit. There are three modes available for a piece of content: Wysiwyg mode – Simple, HTML, Design Mode Read the rest…
IEBlog is reporting on the improvements made to the CSS 2.1 strict parser for IE 7. The main points that this article talks about: Using the root node wild card selector for IE only rules (* HTML) [strict mode only fix] Multi-class selectors as defined by CSS 2.1 (.floral.pastel) [strict mode only fix] Pseudo-element parsing Read the rest…
Caching and dynamic views
My client does not want to change his cache settings on IE and I'm trying to figure out a way to dynamically update a view each time it is visited. I...
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