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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
In Mark’s eighth roundup of HTML 5 land, he delves into the merging of Web Forms 2, which gives us fun things like: input type=”email” input type=”url” inpu type=”number” input type=”range” input type=”date” input type=”time” input type=”datetime” input type=”week” input type=”month” Then Mark discusses input type=”search”: Andy Lyttle wants to standardize one particular feature of (which is already...
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
One month ago, the Fronteers conference in Amsterdam featured several “deep dive” talks on various web development topics. Stuart Langridge for example explained in detail what closures are and I talked about Maintainable JavaScript. The slides of my talk have been available for quite a while now and now Bachelor ICT have released the videos [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Kevin Dangoor of SitePen has introduced Reinhardt a dispatch engine on the client side: A typical server-side web framework today includes three main components: a URL dispatching to some controller object scheme, a template engine, and a data mapping facility. Currently in Dojo, you’ll find that the latter two items already exist. dojox.dtl provides the first [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software has updated his post on IE 8 to cover beta 2: XDomainRequest: Microsoft unfortunately continues with XDomainRequest rather than making changes to XMLHttpRequest as other browsers are doing and as is being standardized by the W3C Web Apps Working Group. (Disclaimer: I am the editor of XMLHttpRequest Level 2.) [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they’re easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting. Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Shane O’Sullivan has built a nice search mashup experience called Chofter. It uses all things Dojo, including: Layouts, Dialogs, Menus and ContentPanes for the user interface. dojo.data and dojo.rpc for data transfer. dojox.dtl (Django Templating Library) for transforming search data into visuals. dojo.fx and FisheyeLite for eye candy
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Rakesh Pai wanted to understand scope issues with eval and found a few surprises. He started with the snippet: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var foo = 123; var bar = { changeFoo: function() { // We'll keep changing the following snippet alert(this); eval("var foo = 456"); // Changing [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Now that the NDA has been released, book publishers are finally able to get out their wares. Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline have written iPhone in Action, and have kindly given the Ajaxian community free downloads of a couple of the early access chapters: SDK Programming for Web Developers delves into the introduction to Objective-C and [...]
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The iRows Blog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Brendan Eich created JavaScript, the popular scripting linguistic communication being used to liven up Internet applications. Coupled with XML, JavaScript have go portion of the Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) technique popular in Web development. InfoWorld recently met with Eich to speak about JavaScript: where it have been and where it is headed. Eich, who functions as main technology military...
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Gasman has created Antisocial, a very enjoyable demo of Canvas doing fake 3d and 2d along with that ZX Spectrum sound that you loved as a kid. Check out the tool to see where the magic happens, and make some music, Spectrum style! I feel like we have been light on showcases recently, so please email us [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Do you like some code pimpage? We saw a couple of interesting posts on this recently in fact. First, our own Christian Heilmann took a table based layout, and in short order turned it over to the light via YUI Grids and CSS. He took this: And it quickly became this: He has made the code available, and is [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Lack of support for XHTML is a fact of life on the web in 2008. Prior to the 3.0 series of Firefox the XHTML processor in Gecko was so poor that Mozilla’s own engineers recommended against it[27]; no version of Internet Explorer up to, and including, IE 8 support XHTML at all, and a number [...]
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The Jaxer team has released a release candidate for Jaxer 1.0. Here a synopsis of all the new features and improvements that have gone into this latest release candidate: Jaxer.Sandbox: HTTP-level control; support readyState, toHTML, waitForCompletion Built-in, extensible dispatching for RESTful and RPC service requests Fast, native JSON support Improved APIs for HTTP Request and Response More flexible...
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FeedMyApp (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Asynchronous JavaScript & XML instant messenger AJAX im (“asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger”) is a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses AJAX to create a near real-time IM environment that can be used in conjunction with community, intranet, and social websites. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this “web application” to work, as everything is updated in real-time...
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Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Ars Technica has a new columnist, John Resig. His first piece is on Extreme JavaScript Performance which has started to come to us in abundance recently! His article focuses on the latest updates to the fish, SquirrelFish Extreme: A popular technique that is gaining traction amongst JavaScript engine implementers is that of optimizing the engine, while it’s [...]
