Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
OpenKM is a multi-platform application for document management based on GWT, JBoss, and Jackrabbit (the content repository API). Version 2.0 has been released, which you can test drive to see the application-style interface. The new features in 2.0 include: the previsualization of multimedia elements as images and videos, an improved an rewritten administration interface, a [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Are child selectors slower than more simple brethren? This is a question that Jon Sykes sought out data for after he read the work of Jim Barraud. His conclusion? The skinny is that child selectors are a major performance issue. This seemed to make sense, but to me I needed some sort of proof rather than just [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Piotr Dachtera took his 64pola.pl, and created a scalable version using Comet. Dylan reports it as “a Jetty-powered Comet app that uses dojox.cometd on the client-side. It's a solid implementation that shows chess moves in real-time, and to date is the best all-around Comet game I’ve seen that is live to the world.” Mathieu Nouzareth then [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tom Trenka has detailed a great analysis of JavaScript performance across the various browsers. This is important work, and it reminded me of the JVM days where people tried to use pools and such… to find out that they were bad for performance as newer VM technology came out. When you try to be too [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, and Alex Russell, along with the Pragmatic Programmers themselves have been kind enough to give the Ajaxian community some exclusive extracts from the Mastering Dojo beta book. What do we have on the docket? First, we have details on the Dojo DOM Apis. Specifically, the author takes us through a challenge involving interview [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Flickr, Viddler, Qik, Powmce and Revision3 are the first services to support oEmbed, an easy way to allow embeding media from a certain URL in a third party site. From the oEmbed site: oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
John Resig has completed 7 months of work to produce a port of Processing, the “programming language and integrated development environment (IDE) built for the electronic arts and visual design communities”, which aims to teach the basics of computer programming in a visual context, and to serve as the foundation for electronic sketchbooks. One of [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Last, but never least, is Alex Russell of the Dojo Toolkit and SitePen. In Alex’s five minutes of video footage for our JavaOne talk, he explained how Dojo enables you to built fantastic, responsive applications for everyone. The everyone piece revolves around accessibility too, which is core to Dojo thanks to work from Becky Gibson [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
I have talked before about the desire for a Notification API on the Web. As a Mac user, I would love to see Growl from JavaScript, and there have been libraries written from as far back as protoGrowl. The difference is between a JavaScript API that does notifications on the desktop, versus trying to get [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
If you 'aint got a URL scheme, you are a nobody. That is what I thought when I saw fx:// on the first day of JavaOne. The newest one of these that I have seen is mountpoint:// which is part of an Opera proposal for a File I/O API in the browser. You know me, extending [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
The Gears community is discussing a Geo Location API, which Aaron Boodman mentioned "was recently proposed to the W3C WebAPI group." Aza Raskin just posted today about Geolocation in Firefox and Beyond which covers his thoughts on an API. I thought it would be fun to look at the proposed APIs: Gears Examples PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT: var geo = google.gears.factory.create('beta.geolocation'); // [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
I’ve been talking about progressive enhancement here before and got a lot of flak in comments about it. It seemed that there was a general misunderstanding of progressive enhancement and unobtrusive scripting as a “passing fad” or “backward facing rather than being innovative”. I was asked by a design agency in London to go there [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Ben and I gave a presentation at JavaOne on what's new with Ajax. Since this was JavaOne, we skewed a little more than we normally would to Java topics, and one of them was using the new Java Plugin, that has great new features such as being able to take a running applet out of [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
John Resig got in front of the camera, and the projector, as he gives us his thoughts on the state, and future of Ajax. He starts out by discussing jQuery Core, and the features in the near term (1.2.4), short term (1.3) and beyond. He then delves into the UI side of the house with jQuery [...]
Ajaxian (Free subscription) | 05/07/2008
David Kees has written about Using Prototype to Load Javascript Files, which is an implementation of the general technique of loading functionality via scripts based on the availability of DOM elements. He started using the technique to scratch an itch: The calendar on this site only appears on pages that show blog-related information. That calendar is enhanced [...]
