Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Category: JavaScript
When was the last time that you played Shadow of the Beast? or launched Eyes? Well, the beauty of the internet, and a bunch of time, has enabled an JavaScript emulation engine of the Amiga. That has more “Wow” than Vista.
Category: Adobe, Flash
, Office
Adobe has announced it will release a web edition of Photoshop. Yes, it will almost certainly be Flash based, not pure Ajax (technology aside, it’s the logical choice for the owner of the Flash platform!). Still, it’s big news for anyone involved in rich web apps…it wasn’t long ago when people would cite graphical editors Read the rest…
François Zaninotto has been talking about a new Unobtrusive JavaScript Plug-In for symfony. Simple Example < View plain text > php <div id="foobar"> I’m here ! </div> < ?php UJS("$(‘#foobar’).css(‘display’, ‘none’)") ?> How it is generated < View plain text > php < ?php UJS_write('<a href="#" onclick="$(\’#foobar\’).toggle();return false;">click me’) ?> <div id="foobar"> I’m Read the rest…
Category: Framework, GWT
, Java
Gabi S. in what appears to be her first blog post has already started off with a bang. In tutorial form she shows how to integrate GWT with Spring. To integrate [the GWT application] with Spring we only have to register our GWT servlet in our web.xml so we can simply use Spring’s ServletForwardingController to Read the rest…
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…
Category: JavaScript, JSON
, Library
James Wiltshire and his team at ATG have created and released a JSP tag library that is used to render JSON data from within JSP code. They use JSON as our data format of choice for all AJAX applications being written at ATG, and they use this library extensively to render the JSON. This allows Read the rest…
Tuesday, February 27th, 2007
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, Sencha
, Yahoo!
Jack Slocum has an early preview release of Ext which shows the decoupling allowing either jQuery or YUI as a core library choice. It is getting very close, and now they just need to nail down items such as getting animations working just right in the jQuery version. Both teams are working together to finish Read the rest…
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.
Category: JavaScript, Library
Dustin Diaz has a nice entry on currying in JavaScript a technique used often in languages such as LISP, Perl, and many others. Dustin’s curry implementation: function curry (fn, scope) { var scope = scope || window; var args = []; for (var i=2, len = arguments.length; i < len; ++i) { args.push(arguments[i]); }; return Read the rest…
Category: Dojo, JavaScript
, Offline
, Screencast
Brad Neuberg keeps sprinting with his offline work for Dojo. He has just released a demo of an offline aware editor, and a release of the code itself: We’ve finished the JavaScript layer of Dojo Offline. Dojo Offline consists of two major pieces: a JavaScript API that is included with a web application, and which Read the rest…
Monday, February 26th, 2007
Category: Editorial
Doing a view source on oscar.com shows that the award given to the JavaScript libraries by the academy developers was to Prototype and Moo. The faux pas of the site is showing a darn commercial and disabling the pause button. Bad academy. You wonder why people are downloading movies?
Category: Games
Bill Renner has created Vox Imperium, a Civilization clone ported in Ajax. Have fun doing a view-source on the main game page.
Category: Editorial, JavaScript
, jQuery
John Resig gives his honest opinion on the Open Ajax Alliance (which his employer is a part of, Mozilla). John talks about technical and non-technical issues: First he hits out at how corporate the alliance is Then he talks about the OpenAjax Hub and a few items he would like different In short: The OpenAjax Read the rest…
“We make it easier to work with Yahoo’s services than Yahoo does.” That is what Alex believes as he announces that Dojo supports Yahoo! Pipes, which adds to the forward-thinking JSON-P style endpoints. It’s cool and interesting to be able to call out to Pipes from your server-side web-app, but what the mashup-mad word REALLY Read the rest…
Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Ruben Daniels was on a mission to create XPath and XSLT support that works on Safari. This isn’t the first effort: After searching the web I found several XPath/XSLT implementations: google AJAXSLT (168 KB) Cameron McCormack’s Xpath implementation (119 KB) JS-XPath IE-only (16 KB) I always try to keep the socalled ‘footprint’ of the application Read the rest…
Category: Games
Ryan Buterbaugh has created an Ajax version of Scrabble on the web called Wabble (mirror). The application doesn’t require any registration, and uses the Taconite framework as the base.
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
