Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
We talked a few months ago about something new we’re doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the “Framework Summit.” Basically, we’re providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own half-day events on-site, and these events are free and open to the general public. Since we announced the summit, the frameworks have [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
When I was doing an interview with John Resig for the Open Web Podcast, he mentioned that the redesign of jQuery.com had a lot of people talking, and it seems like people have strong feelings about the Rock Star for whatever reason. Ignoring the style, the redesign is more than just that: The entirety of the site [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
I have seen the GWT team working very hard indeed on GWT 1.5, and they must be very happy to see the final release shipped and complete: GWT 1.5 delivers what we think are an impressive number of improvements, about four hundred issues if you’re counting. We’re also happy that one of those is issue 168, [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
qooxdoo 0.8 has been released and it appears to have a lot of big changes. Andreas Ecker told us a little about it: While at first qooxdoo 0.8 looks like a minor jump in version number over the previous 0.7.3, the actual changes are huge. In particular the UI capabilities as well as the developer tool chain were [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
John Resig posted on degrading script tags and adding functionality to To make this all work, John shows us a jquery aware version that detects [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I recently ran across Inkscape, an open source very high-quality graphics editor that can output SVG that I’m blown away by. Even better, it runs on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. From the Inkscape website: [Inkscape is] an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
As part of the Open Web Advocacy work I’ve started with Dion and others at Google, one of my goals right now is to help increase awareness and support around doing 2-D/vector graphics on the open web. This includes tools such as the Canvas tag, SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics, an XML markup language for vector [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
I met with a colleague recently who wants to take his project and create a standard on the web that actually gets adopted. We talked for a long time, and when we finished up I pointed him at a paper that had a huge impact on me, called “In Praise of Evolvable Systems” by Clay [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
GWT has long had a project that aimed to give rich support for Google APIs called GALGWT, or “Google API Libraries for Google Web Toolkit”. This project has stepped up to higher gear recently, and we have seen the GALGWT 1.0 release candidate appear. What is in GALGWT? The project is a collection of libraries that provide Java [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2 was released today. There are several cool UI enhancements that this beta brings to the table that I won't cover in this post, but you can learn more about them on the IEBlog. Instead, I want to talk about how beta 2 affects IE's relationship to web standards. First, CSS Expressions [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
While we posted about the Gears 0.4 features a lot of the press only really talked about the Geolocation piece. I think that is important, and posted on that too, but Brad's piece discussed the full gamut including the Blob API, resummable HTTP, and Desktop API improvements to allow controlled file system access. The example [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
You have seen this before: /path/to/something.js'v=2, or maybe it used a date or a version control id or some such. The notion of putting the version into the URL so you can aggressively cache and yet quickly push new versions. There has long been issues with using the querystring as the version. At some point I [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
A little while ago, we talked about the two competing custom font technologies for the Web: linking and "embedding" (aka EOT). With Firefox about to implement support for linking à la Safari, John Allsopp has a summary of the state of font technologies and an illustration of just how easy it is to use these [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Aza Raskin and the Mozilla Labs team have launched Ubiquity the command line tool that they have been talking about for awhile. Ubiquity is "experiment into connecting the Web with language in an attempt to find new user interfaces that could make it possible for everyone to do common Web tasks more quickly and easily." The overall [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Andy Pemberton has put together a simple solution to get the watermark technique to work nicely with print CSS. Check out the sample and pull up a print preview. He details the good, bad, and ugly: The Good The first step to getting a printable watermark is to use an inline tag, rather than background-images. In most [...]
