Friday, May 27th, 2005
Category: Ajax, Articles
, JavaScript
O’Reilly’s XML.com has a piece that discusses the magic of try {} catch(e) {} finally {}, and window.onerror = handleError. The article shows examples in the realm of Ajax, and XMLHttpRequest, but it is more generic than that (and even has Perl code ;)
Thursday, May 26th, 2005
Category: Examples, JavaScript
, Library
This is WICK, the Web Input Completion Kit, an evolving framework that leverages web standards such as JavaScript, DOM and CSS to facilitate textual input in form UI elements assisted by local and remote data sources. This framework strives to remain unobtrusive and preserve a form’s semantics and accessibility. The sample page shows text input Read the rest…
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
, Toolkit
Gregory Wild-Smith has written about Ajax, and other toolkits such as SAJAX and Dojo weren’t for him: Anyhow, as I’m using AJAX a lot these days — both for side projects and at work — I thought I would develop a nice simple wrapper for it that does exactly what I want from it; namely Read the rest…
Category: Showcase
Netflix has a nice clean web UI. Now, they are using some Ajax, with more and more usage coming all the time.
Wednesday, May 25th, 2005
There is more afoot with messaging and Ajax. ActiveMQ is an open source MOM, and it now has support for Ajax. Ajax support in ActiveMQ builds on top of the REST connector for ActiveMQ which allows any web capable device to send or receive messages over JMS. Client side view On the client the web Read the rest…
Category: Ajax
A lot of people are finding that the browser address bar is the new command line. Some people embed an address bar in their start menu, which means it is always there. Michael Mahemoff talks about taking this to the next level, and Ajaxifying the Address Bar Interface. Personally, I would love a QuickSilver-esque system.
Garrison Locke has put up an Ajax Spell Checker. This is another good use of client/server. You wouldn’t want to download an entire data dictionary down to the client, and now you don’t have too :)
Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
Category: Ajax, JavaScript
Good ole /. has another posting claiming that the AJAX Buzzword Reinvigorates Javascript. Typically, the usual suspects are on the thread jumping up and down :)
Category: JavaScript
Coming from a world such as Java, developers sometimes wish they had rich threading constructs. The f(m) project has gone ahead and implemented a threading construct / library for you to use. Threading is a double edged sword though. It is very easy to shoot yourself in the foot, and it brings in a lot Read the rest…
Category: IE, JavaScript
Dean Edwards wishes that IE had decent CSS support, like us all. He went out and created a package called IE7, which tries to fix the box model, add XMLHttpRequest and DOMParser nicely, etc etc. The IE7 XML Extras is modelled on the Mozilla extras. Thanks Dean!
Alex Bosworth has written up 10 usability mistakes that he thinks Ajax developers make. Fortunately, these are not intrinsic to the Ajax platform so we can work around them. Not giving immediate visual cues for clicking widgets:There are many patterns emerging here, such as showing the Firefox/Apple spinning wheel next to widgets, when work is Read the rest…
Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Category: Ajax
The Google Maps platform keeps soldering on. The latest cool innovative hack is ChicagoCrime.org. It manages to munge and plot crime data onto maps. Here is an example. Nice work.
Category: Ajax, Chat
, Showcase
Chat clients often seem to be sample applications of new technology on the web. Ajax has had its share, and now there is Lace: a free Ajax experiment that implements a chat service. Lace is a free web communications experiment written in PHP, Javascript, XHTML and CSS. Lace takes advantage of XMLHttpRequest if it is Read the rest…
Category: JavaScript
A common issue that we have to work around, is when we would love to have the server-side of an application, call back into the client-side (browser). Obvious examples are real-time updates of data. We can of course use polling methods, and Ajax can come in to help with the polling, however this can be Read the rest…
Friday, May 20th, 2005
Oracle ADF components for JavaServer Faces, and its predecessor has been doing the Ajax thing for awhile (although the verbiage was: Partial Page Rendering). Steve Muench has a tutorial which details Building J2EE Applications with Oracle JHeadstart for ADF. More Ajaxian work from the Java folks.
Ever since Ben and I met with Ed Burns (JSF spec lead) at TheServerSide Symposium, we knew that he was serious about implementing Ajaxian components and having JSF be a solid platform for Ajax. He has put together his first Ajaxian JSF component, which is a Progress Bar indicator. You use it via: <d:progressBar id=”progressBar” Read the rest…
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