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Ajax or Asynchronous Javascript and XML as it was first termed, is shorthand for Javascript UI development, particularly Javascript development that uses the XMLHttpRequest object. XMLHttpRequest and other techniques used to communicate to the server from Javascript prompted the invention of the word, using these techniques Web UIs driven by Javascript may be made more interactive with server data and more responsive, as small fragments of data may be exchanged efficiently bet
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KANA 10 was built using WaveMaker and the IBM SOA Foundation and was developed in conjunction with IBM customers. KANA did a complete rewrite of their entire suite of applications in less than a year - a terrific validation for Web 2.0, Ajax and SOA technologies.
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For a few moments when I first approached ASP.NET MVC I really thought it was the negation of AJAX. With a programming model heavily based on REST principles, I thought all that one could do is invoke a URL. And when you get, or post to, a URL, you inevitably involve the browser and get a full-page refresh. As I?ve explored it more, and as the facts have largely shown, my first impression was dead wrong. AJAX is definitely possible in ASP.NET MVC.
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Cleaning up the web with Ajax
by Dion Almaer
14 hours ago
John Gunther has released GChart 2.5, a client-side library that adds a new canvas-rendering option for sharper, better looking, alpha-transparent, pie, line, and area charts.
John told us:
Canvas-rendering corrects GChart’s most serious visual quality limitations (including the most often mentioned problem by its users: the banded-filled pie slice).
Coupled with its existing feature set and ease of [...]
by Dion Almaer
16 hours ago
Paul Baukaus linked to jsescape, a little form that shows escaping and unescaping across a number of encodings.
Andrea Giammarchi had his own post on encodings in a different way…. as he talked about
en-code which you can check out in action here on the page that lets you do simple encodings, especially for source code, in [...]
by Chris Heilmann
18 hours ago
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the [...]
by Dion Almaer
22 hours ago
Modernizr is a new library that detects various HTML5 and CSS3 features and lets you know so you can use them:
Writing conditional CSS with Modernizr
Now, once your page loads, Modernizr will run and go through all of its tests. It will automatically add all the classes to the <body> element of the page, and these [...]
by Dion Almaer
1 day ago
A couple of releases related to unit testing and JavaScript came out on the same day.
First, the JScript team posted a set of ECMAScript 5 tests.... 900 to be exact, and the focus on features that are new to ECMAScript 5.
All of the tests are released under New BSD.
Then, the V8 team announced Sputnik, a [...]
by Dion Almaer
2 days ago
It is great to feel the good vibes at Mozilla HQ today as we launch Firefox 3.5! It is always an interesting ride to see a browser develop, and realize how complex and large the work is.
Congrats to the browser developers out there who are working hard to make the Web better. With final [...]
by Dion Almaer
2 days ago
Kyle Simpson has developed LABjs, a library that lets you define your JavaScript file dependencies, and then loads them as efficiently as possible.
Kyle told us:
This project is a simple little tool (1.6k compressed!) for being able to load javascript files dynamically. It's like a lot of similar projects where the goal is to improve the [...]
by tberardi
3 days ago
Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here's one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA.
It's only been two weeks since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with [...]
by Dion Almaer
3 days ago
Developers tend to tease MySpace for its look, but the insiders are incredibly impressed by some of the engineering behind the scenes (e.g. their internal monitoring tools are said to be second to none).
They have surprised us again with their new tool MSFast which is "a browser plugin that help developers to improve their code [...]
by Dion Almaer
6 days ago
Zach Johnson is at it again, this time giving us a fun Friday treat with CSS text shadow, all via:
PLAIN TEXT
JAVASCRIPT:
document.g = function(e) {
var xm = e.clientX - 300;
var ym = e.clientY - 175;
var d = Math.sqrt(xm*xm + ym*ym);
text.style.textShadow = -xm + 'px ' + -ym + [...]
by Dion Almaer
6 days ago
Thomas Fuchs has been working in the open on scripty2 for a bit, and now the website has launched.
It even comes with nice documentation and fun demos:
What's new in scripty2? It is a complete rewrite, and comes packaged in three parts:
scripty2 core contains the main namespace and an area for extensions to be added. It [...]
by Dion Almaer
7 days ago
Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3:
We?ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 ? YUI, Node, and Event ? to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we?ve refined our module/submodule structure. In [...]
by Dion Almaer
7 days ago
We have been sandboxing JavaScript in iframes for a long time. The Web Worker API has the nice property that it doesn't have access to objects like document and the like, and just runs code that you can pass over to it.
With this, Elijah Grey has created an experimental jsandbox API that gives you an [...]
by Dion Almaer
8 days ago
Rana Sobhany of Medialets has posted on Sun Spider benchmarks of the iPhone 3GS as well as other devices which shows off the performance angle of 3GS:
The WebKit Open Source Project provides a JavaScript test Suite dubbed SunSpider. According to the description on the SunSpider home page, ?this benchmark tests the core JavaScript language only, [...]
by Dion Almaer
8 days ago
The religion behind a simple $ has been fierce in the Web world. MooTools has decided to make the Dollar Safe Mode which is similar to cousins such as jQuery.noConflict (in MooTools case it just looks for the $ function). Now you can just use document.id if you want to play in the wild, or [...]
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