Kaazing has released Kaazing Gateway, an open source HTML 5 WebSocket Server.The HTML 5 WebSocket specification is a standard that attempts to simplify much of the complexity around achieving bi-directional communications between browsers and servers. The specification provides a simple JavaScript interface that enables developers to open a full-duplex socket connection and connect directly to […]
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Paul Colton of Aptana has announced the Jaxer 1.0 release. This comes on the heels of the general availability of Aptana Cloud, and of course their Studio product that ties things together.First, Jaxer 1.0:If you’ve already been using Jaxer you’re likely familiar with its database, file system and socket APIs and its ability to not […]
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Would could be more perfect for a Friday before the election than an attack ad generator, written using jQuery, jQuery UI, and YUI base line CSS resets.This is really nicely done, including great tools such as speech integration.
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This comes as part of the from my personal blog series…In recent presentations, Ben and I have been taking a look back on the rise of Ajax (where Ajax == popularity of dhtml :). At its core, I think it all comes down to UI responsiveness.When you look at the killer apps such as Google […]
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Ben Lisbakken, an ex-colleague from Google and all round good guy, has created a simple JSONP service (in the vein of json-time and html-whitelist) that calculates the users language based on browser headers:http://langdetect.appspot.com/?callback=setLanguageThis will return something like:setLanguage({”languages”: [’en-us’, ‘en’]});Ben created a nice little sample that shows you content in the language you desire using the […]
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Mikael Bergkvist has created Widgetplus, a gadget platform. He told us about it.XML RuntimeThe structure of an application is defined in XML.It’s loaded into the serverside runtime like this: javascript:xin.app(’ http://www.naltabyte.se/desktop/xin/demo/programs/basics.xml ‘);We get this as a result. (the ‘test this’ link)Changes to the app remain persistent because on the server, the xml object has changed.Of […]
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With the rich JavaScript library ecosystem, it can be extremely difficult to make informed decisions when choosing which libraries to use for your own projects. Because no one has time to analyze each library in detail themselves, such decisions are usually made by getting a feel for what the “street” thinks and making the safe […]
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The Google folks have been doing a really good at consistently blogged about the decisions that were made as they created Chrome:Graphics in Google ChromeGoogle Chrome uses a library called Skia, which is also the graphics engine behind Google’s Android mobile OS. The two projects share code that implements WebKit’s porting API in terms of […]
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Yahoo! has had a big day with a lot of Open platform releases (OpenSocial, YAP, etc) and to add to that they have released Yahoo! BrowserPlus version 2.1.6, which is important as it opens up the BrowserPlus platform for anyone to use.It features:Google Chrome and IE 6 supportSmaller 2mb installationEnd user configuration panel for managing […]
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