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AJAX Asyncronous Javascript and XML
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a new approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, the Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When... [more]
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a new approach to using a number of existing technologies together, including HTML or XHTML, Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript, the Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, and the XMLHttpRequest object. When these technologies are combined in the Ajax model, internet applications are able to make quick, incremental updates to the user interface without reloading the entire browser page.
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Marcus Westin (who we featured on finger print) gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup on a top that is very interesting:
One common issue in my experience are intricate dependencies between the UI and data models. Decoupling these is a huge benefit with respect to maintainability. The PubSub...
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Erik Arvidsson seems to be having fun going through exersizes getting JavaScript to do something his way. The latest little foray is Using catch-alls to implement super.
Firstly, catch-alls are the ability to use the SpiderMonkey only __noSuchMethod__ meta programming trick. The good news is that...
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Wouldn’t it be nice to take a view of your application and see where the behaviour has been added? That is what is shown above, and it is courtesy of Allan Jardine and his new Visual Event tool.
Once you hover over an event, you get to see the code that will run:
Each type of event has its own...
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Greg Salisbury has released a new JavaScript debugger called XBug that “currently runs on the Windows XP/Vista platform, but, it can also be used to debug webpages on Windows or Linux servers. It’s cross-browser compatible, and works with Chrome, Firefox 2/3, IE 6/7, and Safari 3. After...
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Mary Jo Foley has an article called Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft’s ‘Kojax’. The thing is, I don’t get what it actually is:
Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, that will allow Microsoft- — and third-party-developed — applets run in an Ajax-like way, using a...
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John has done a really good job at wrapping up information on the various options for JavaScript developers on the iPhone platform.
He discusses the various approaches:
JiggyApp: JiggyApp provides a full API for developing an application - apparently separate from most of the typical APIs...
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YUI and Google
Most everyone knows that Google has really stepped up to the plate by helping many JavaScript library projects host their builds on the Google AJAX Libraries API. Apart from providing a central distribution point for these libraries, the bandwidth cost savings alone go a long way...
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Now this could only fly on a Friday ;)
Ed Spencer has coded up a bra size calculator in JavaScript:
One of the more mesmerizing websites I've worked on recently was for a lingerie boutique in the UK. Aside from the unenviable task of having to look at pictures of women in lingerie all day, I was...
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KUMAGAI Kentaro has created a JSCocoa based interactive console for the iPhone:
I’ve been struggling with transform property of UIView for long time. at last, I’ve decided to create UIMonkey that allows to manipulate the variables by trial and error through HTTP in Javascript with SpiderMonkey...
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AIR 1.5 has been released at MAX this week.
For the folks that like to write AIR apps that at least have some JavaScript, you will be happy to see that WebKit has been updated:
The version of WebKit included in AIR has been updated to a newer version. The updated version includes Squirrelfish, a...
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By Michael Bradwell After 60 years of serving as a large regional supplier of industrial gases, CGI International is making a calculated bet on the future ...
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Robert Kieffer has announced JSLitmus a tool "designed specifically to allow you to quickly and easily write a JavaScript test (or test suite), run it on any modern browser, and document and share the results."
To see it in action, Robert writes a test on "++" and plots the results for different...
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This is officially the week of John. If he delivers top notch posts for the rest of the week he wins an Ajaxian award or something. Maybe we need to bring back the “pack of cards” where each card is an Ajax personality and John gets to be Ace of Hearts or something.
I remember talking with some...
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YieldBuild, an ad optimization platform that helps users manage multiple ad networks and position advertisements on their webpages, has launched its self-service program to the public. When we last covered the company, YieldBuild was still in private beta and only sites with more than 500,000...
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Via Myk Melez comes word that Firefox 3 supports HTML 5 web protocol handlers, which I had not realized before. These are really nifty:
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JAVASCRIPT:
window.navigator.registerProtocolHandler("mailto",
"https://www.example.com/?uri=%s...
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