As we rant and rave about CSS the true artists are up to amazing things with HTML tables Here is some Friday fun:

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Adeel Khan has created another HTTP shell called htsh using PHP on the backend and jQuery for the front end. It currently supports most common commands, like cd, chmod, cp, edit, exit, ls, mkdir, mv, rm, rmdir, touch, unzip, and zip. It is also very easy to add your own commands. It even supports tab-completion. There […]

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Now we can get our hands on an iPhone, developers are testing out Safari to see what is actually available. How is the DOM? What events get fired? How does the keyboard send onkey* events? How is scrolling handled? How is the JavaScript support? Abe Fettig has been jotting down his notes, which include: Poking around the […]

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Dekoh is rolling out some of their widgets as open source standalone components. New widgets will be released every week during the run-up to the product release of Dekoh itself, and they have started with a tag cloud. To find out how you can embed it in your application or to download the widget source visit the […]

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Engin Bozdag, Ali Mesbah, and Arie van Deursen of the Delft University of Technology have compiled a technical report on various push versus pull techniques of building Ajax applications based on an example application that they built. They concluded that:In this paper we have compared pull and push solutions for achieving web-based real time event notification. […]

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Robert Cerny has created a JavaScript library in his own image Cerny.js. The library has an entire slew of things: method call interception, type checking for arguments and return values on function calls, programming by contract, logging, validation of an object against a schema, dictionaries, pretty printing JSON in text or HTML, dependency management, easy configuration and good documentation. One of the more out there […]

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Ryan Johnson has developed PhotoFolder, a simple library that “scans a given folder for JPEG files with any number of thumbnail sizes per image. If the resized images do not yet exist, it will automatically create the thumbnails for you. The result is that your workflow for adding new images to an application built with […]

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People are clamoring on the iPhone buzz to get developers using their products for iPhone development. Two early IDE folk are Morfik and Aptana: Aptana iPhone Support We’ve released the first beta of our iPhone Development Plugin for the Aptana IDE. Since ‘Web 2.0’ is the development model of choice for the iPhone, and that is what the […]

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Mike Chambers and the Adobe AIR crew have generously released the Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for JavaScript Developers Pocket Guide (Amazon) under a creative commons license. They have given us an electronic copy available for download for free, here. The pocket guide covers: Introduction to AIR Getting Started with AIR development Working with JavaScript and HTML within AIR AIR Mini Cookbook Command […]

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Vayama is a new Travel 2.0 site that has an Ajax UI. Vayama itself has a focus on international travel for U.S. travelers. To help out, you get visual clues on your itinerary. Maybe this is because they know that the US has some… erm…. issues with geography? The Ajax (DWR and more) and Flex driven […]

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