Sun’s Dan Ingalls has been talking about Project Flair, a new open source programing environment:“It’s a self-supporting Web programming kernel that’s all written in JavaScript,” Ingalls said when interviewed during the Sun Labs Open House event in Menlo Park, Calif. Small and simple, Flair presents a “great vehicle for experimenting with [what] I guess what […]
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A mini book deserves a mini review, and so it is with the “Digital Shortcut” from January 2007 entitled Google™ Web Toolkit Solutions (Digital Short Cut): Cool & Useful Stuff. The 112 page PDF goes further than any of the free tutorials out there in that it develops two non-trivial applications using GWT: a Yahoo! […]
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Real Editor is a real-time CSS editor, built on SAJA. It let’s MySpace users change their styles inline via simple dialogs, menus, and pickers.
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Matthew Batchelder has been looking at the impact of latency on web applications with respect to downloading lots of images as icons, based on thoughts he heard from Zimbra when they presented at The Ajax Experience. His piece on Faster Page Loads With Image Concatenation goes into why and how:For complex web apps, the quantity and […]
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DD Tab Menu is a standards compliant, 2 level tab menu. Move your mouse over a tab, and a 2nd level content appears beneath it. The script uses CSS to control all of its appearance, and plain HTML to implement the entire menu tabs and contents. Highlights of this script are: Standards compliant, with menu tabs and […]
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Dustin Diaz has written an article on the Seven JavaScript Techniques You Should Be Using Today. Dustin delves into: Branch when possible: When performance matters, it’s often advisable to branch out your functions in a way that ensures processor-intensive or memory-hungry tasks won’t be frequently repeated. One of the most common scenarios where this situation can arise […]
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Thomas Steiner has released REST Describe, a GWT application, open-sourced, that groks WADL:The application is based on the idea that creating a description for a Web Service should be a rather simple task given the information already contained in requests. Let’s take a very simple imaginary online bookmarking Web Service to make the idea clear: http://bookmarks-online.com/api/v1/getBookmarks?userId=tom&tags=rest&limit=10 Simply […]
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Jesse Kuhnert was looking at the Google Rounded Corners and decided to implement his own, using the same URL structure. You can see his demo at work, and you can add corners by doing this: PLAIN TEXT CSS: .detail { display:block; margin-top:2em; padding: 0 1.1em 2em; background: url(”rounded?bc=white&w=600&h=40&shadow=true&ah=10&aw=10&sw=4&o=.5″) left bottom no-repeat;}
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There has been a ton of work going on over in Dojo land, and Alex has given his hands a rest from coding, to give us an update on Dojo 0.9 over at SitePen HQ. It is wrong to think of Dojo as an Ajax toolkit. It is more akin to a stdlib for JavaScript, as […]
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I hope Joe had a nice warm beer last night after he released the final version of DWR 2.0. We have been talking about this release for awhile, and it is great stuff. Now you can do amazing things with Reverse Ajax, and know that security is core to the framework. We asked Joe now that this […]
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