Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Category: jQuery, Performance
When your browser freezes on you on some random web page, there’s a pretty good chance its caused by the very JavaScript designed to improve your experience. Good ‘ole JavaScript performance. Sebastian Ruiz of Atlassian recently worked on a UI rewrite of two of their products (FishEye and Crucible) and found some interesting solutions to Read the rest…
Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Category: Mobile
Editor’s Note: Michael did a great job jotting down notes at our developer event in London, and we appreciate him taking the time to do a writeup. Some of the notes have been taken out of context, so we wanted to clarify: We started with a talk on the the future of the mobile Web. Read the rest…
Category: Announcements, Toolkit
, UI
The Ample SDK, a unique GUI toolkit working to create a cross-browser abstraction backed by open standards, has gone open source! With the new 0.8.9 release the GUI framework is now an open-source project licensed under GPL/MIT and hosted on GitHub. More about the Ample SDK: The Ample SDK makes it easy to create interactive Read the rest…
Category: CSS, JavaScript
, Performance
It does not matter if we have the latest CPU able to devour every single bit of a web page, round trip and network delay is still the real bottleneck of whatever website and Steve Souder knows it so well that he summarize best practices in 66 slides. Fast by Default View more presentations from Read the rest…
Category: Debugging, Utility
, WebKit
Joseph Pecoraro has made some major improvements to Web Inspector. It is now much easier to create and much around with the content. Create new CSS selectors with ease; Add content in-line with elements; see color representations of any value. And, there is more: DOM Storage The DOM Storage DataGrids now displays live updates. You Read the rest…
Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Category: Ajax
A lot of great news is coming in via Twitter. I make a lot of Ajax comments under @dalmaer and wanted to give you a roundup on the month of October via Tweets. Always interesting to take a glance at the month. What do you think? Firefox 3.6 beta 1 is here. Full screen video, Read the rest…
Category: Browsers, Firefox
, Mozilla
Firefox 3.6 is already on the scene with the first beta release. The Mozilla team is moving faster and faster these days which is fantastic to see. At the high level: Users can now change their browser’s appearance with a single click, with built in support for Personas. Firefox 3.6 will alert users about out Read the rest…
Friday, October 30th, 2009
Category: Comet
The following is a guest post. If you have something to say to the Ajaxian community, please feel free to either link us to your work, or give us a guest posting that goes into detail! Contact us. My name is Jerod Venema, and I’m excited to write to you about our new Comet server Read the rest…
Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Caja is one of the most promising attempts to deliver secure web applications not prone to the attacks that normal JavaScript solutions sadly enough allow for. Let’s face it – the concept of global variables and the lack of sandboxed environments in addition to the fun that is browser security holes makes the web as Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Usability
I am right now part of the Stackoverflow DevDays conference tour introducing the attendees to the things Yahoo has to offer for developers. One of the things is YQL as an easy way to use web services. When talking to the Stackoverflow developers they wondered how to make it easier for people to tag their Read the rest…
Category: Prototype, Scriptaculous
Thomas Fuchs has been working with Nokia on their multi-touch API for Qt/WebKit: scripty2 supports multiple API vendors for Multitouch events, and even provides a desktop emulation (click+drag to pan, shift+click+drag to scale and rotate)– so you can try this out even without having multitouch hardware at your disposal. Currently the scripty2 API abstraction event Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript, Library
Jeremy Ashkenas and the DocumentCloud team have just released Underscore.js a small library that provides all the functional programming helpers that you expect from Prototype.js or Ruby, but without extending any core JavaScript objects. Jeremy told us: This makes it a natural fit alongside jQuery, without having to worry about the conflicts and redundant functionality Read the rest…
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Category: SproutCore
SproutCore 1.0 has its first release candidate that you can grab via gem install sproutcore. There are also new demos to play with and other interesting features: Animation Layer I’ve been working on a mixin to add animation to SproutCore views. The current version only works for layout properties, and does not yet work for Read the rest…
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Category: JavaScript
The JavaScriptMVC team has announced v2.0, a major update & rewrite to their MVC-based JavaScript framework. The release incorporates several big changes including a rewrite of the library to leverage jQuery’s functionality and style guidelines. For example, if you have a list of entries, you can organize the event handlers like: javascript < view plain Read the rest…
Aaron Miller and his team have released BookGlutton an online bookstore and social network meant to facilitate social reading. It features a Dojo-driven e-book reading app with chat and annotation, and the store now offers over 500 O’Reilly titles for sale. The site is built using Dojo and PHP and features pagination, real-time chat, group Read the rest…
Monday, October 26th, 2009
Category: Firefox, Showcase
, Typography
The CSS Ninja has created a Font Dragr drag and drop font tester: Font dragr is an experimental web app that uses HTML5 & CSS3 to create a useful standalone web based application for testing custom fonts, once you visit it for the first time you don’t need to be online to use it after 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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