Saturday, July 30th, 2005
Category: Articles
We’ve linked to Backbase before; those guys have some awesome Ajax demos. One of brains behind the site, Jeremy Hartley, has recently written an article on the subject of “Deep Linking”; or, in other words, how to get spiders to properly index an Ajax page. The article identifies three different strategies: Backbase has identified the Read the rest…
Category: .NET
Fexis Vargas pointed us to Jason Diamond, a DevelopMentor instructor, who has created his own Ajax library for making callbacks to the code behind an ASP page. It started out as an “intellectual exercise”, but he did such a good job, its turning into an open source project, whether he likes it or not :-). Read the rest…
Thursday, July 28th, 2005
People were excited to see what Google would come up with, when they showed their personalized search page. Microsoft has a sidekick project: Start.com, which looks similar to the Google portal. There is a lot of Ajax going on there, from having portlet which have their own little lifecycle, dynamically being able to change the Read the rest…
Ajax Pages is a scripting template engine that enables rapid development of Ajax Web-based Applications, just like GMail, Google Maps, A9 and Backpack, but without having to manipulate complicated Document Object Models to make things dynamic. If you check out the 5 minute tutorial, you will see that you create .ajp files which have JSP/ASP/PHP Read the rest…
Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Brennan Stehling has created a simple, cross-browser abstraction on top of the Google Maps API called GPlotter that lets you define your map markers in an XML file and have them plotted at run-time on a Google Maps window. Neat.
Category: Articles, RichTextWidget
Doron Rosenberg has written an interesting article on How to make Internet Explorer-specific Web applications work in Mozilla-based browsers. He dives into general cross browser tips first, such as the usual suspects (document.all vs. document.layer vs. document.getElementById). Doron then delves into other differences such as: HTML Entities Dreaded DOM JavaScript differences CSS differences Quirks versus Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
Jon Udell has spoken about MSN Virtual Earth, Google Maps, and AJAX deep linking. We talked about some of these points in an earlier editorial piece: Making sure that crawlers like Google can grok your Ajaxian apps. Neither Google Maps nor MSN Virtual Earth records the state of a particular map view on the browser’s Read the rest…
Category: Accessibility, Showcase
Over at Adactio they are trying to practice what they preach. They have released an Ajaxian Shopping Cart which uses progressive enhancement. Basically, fancy words to say that it still works if you aren’t able to do the JavaScript wonder, and doesn’t make screen readers cry (etc etc). It’s also an example of the kind Read the rest…
Tuesday, July 26th, 2005
One of the great gems of Perl is CPAN. Rael noticed that some Perl hackers are jumping into some JavaScript code, and built JSAN, a place to find comprehensive information on JavaScript libraries. As Rael says… The most interesting find in the archive thus far has to be JSAN library itself, allowing scripters to import Read the rest…
Category: Library
Some pythonistas set their sites on “making JavaScript suck less” as they put it. They created the JavaScript library MochiKit. MochiKit consists of: Async – manage asynchronous tasks Base – functional programming and useful comparisons DOM – painless DOM manipulation API DateTime – “what time is it anyway?” Format – string formatting goes here Iter Read the rest…
Category: Examples
HTML came out with nice form elements such as radio buttons, select boxes etc… but it also missed a few. I knew that I wanted a drop down list that also let me just type in something as “other”. Now we kinda get that with the LiveSearch Ajaxian components. Lucas Jellema has taken another stab Read the rest…
Alley fell in love with Rico LiveGrid when he saw it and wanted to implement it on his site. As he started on this task he items in which he wanted to change, so he has created a new prototype version: No support for the mousewheel Your html-output needs to be serialized (ie. use <a> Read the rest…
Monday, July 25th, 2005
Category: Utility
Konfabulator has been purchased by Yahoo!, and the platform is to be known as Yahoo! Widgets. What is Konfabulator? Konfabulator is a JavaScript runtime engine for Windows and Mac OS X that lets you run little files called Widgets that can do pretty much whatever you want them to. Widgets can be alarm clocks, calculators, Read the rest…
We have YAGM (Yet Another Google Maps). This time around the mapping area that is catered for is the Kiwis. If you move around the map faster than it can draw you oan even get peaks at the Loading… screen again! New Zealand Guide Update: You have also probably seen that Microsoft has announced MSN Read the rest…
Category: Editorial
The Guardian is a great UK newspaper, and it was interesting to see them write a dedicated report on Ajax, what it is, and the state of the onion. Ajax is set to dramatically change the way we work with web applications. Even without a fancy interface everyone can see the advantages: no more back Read the rest…
Friday, July 22nd, 2005
Category: Showcase
Pablo Impallari has created an Ajaxian Phonebook demo that uses XHConn as its Ajax framework. The phone book allows you to easily add and search the phone book within the same application.
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
