Ajax

By Ben Galbraith One of the reasons Dion is such an effective editor here at Ajaxian is his sense for filtering all of the available news from the Ajax community down to about three stories a day. Truth-be-told, with all the submissions we get and what ...

By Dion Almaer We also delve into Canvas land and the fun and frolics that are planned for The Ajax Experience in Boston that happens soon. I am excited about the framework mini-events that happen around the same time too, and gather the crew behind jQuery, Dojo, and Prototype.

By Don Reisinger In order to see exactly what would need to happen for the iPhone to overtake Symbian in sales, I considered three scenarios: an annual iPhone growth rate of 300 percent, 100 percent, and 50 percent. To put that into perspective, expected iPhone 3G sales for the quarter ending September 30 t...

By Ryan Lastly my Backpack account is SSL protected, so I feel safe storing information about my production environment. I can never remember where a project is hosted, what the username and password are or if there are particularities with the configuration I should know about. I keep all this se...

By Mark Hendrickson Other browsers can take V8 and include it in their systems, because it is being provided as open source. Chrome has no tie-ins to other major Google services. If you had Live Search as your default search engine in Internet Explorer, Chrome will use that automatically.

By Dion Almaer It is really exciting to see the level of pace that browsers have been setting recently, especially with respect to performance. I have been able to keep in sync with Google Chrome the new browser, and Chromium, the open source code-base it comes from. There are a couple of innovations that h...

By Henry Work Since then we’ve seen a number of impressive things built on top of the API. And the traffic has started to add up: between July 15th and August 15th we fulfilled nearly 800,000 API requests, compared to ~1.3m page views for the website itself. Apture

By Florante Mangampo AJAX stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML. Any server side technology that supports JavaScript also supports AJAX. AJAX is a browser technology, and is therefore independent of web server platforms. In this article we will learn about what AJAX is, how it works, and how can we use AJA...

By Mark Hendrickson Anyone can sign up and start using StartForce by going to its website (works best in Firefox 3). The real product, however, consists of an enterprise version for corporations that pay for support on a per-seat, usage basis. Since the enterprise version debuted last month, four companies h...

By Dion Almaer The OpenAjax Registry is a centralized, industry-wide Ajax registration authority managed by the Interoperability Working Group at OpenAjax Alliance. The Registry maintains an industry-wide list of Ajax runtime libraries and various characteristics of each library. For each libr...

By Dion Almaer JSON format used strongly in both; Comprehensive Ajax Solution: Dojo has it all; Standards: "Dojo not only implements published standards, but also drives them"; Communities and support: Strong communities, with support offerings behind ...

By Dion Almaer Secondly, we have Ajax the Dojo way which takes us on a trip down dojo.data and dojox.Grid lane... two differentiating features that Dojo comes with. The chapter builds a wishlist system using these features. ...

By Dion Almaer 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 [...]

By Dion Almaer Simon Willison gave another jQuery talk, this time at XTech, called Unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery. In the presentation he delves into the reasons why you should go unobtrusive, how to use jQuery, and why they are a good match. ...

By Dion Almaer The W3C has issued a last call on the XMLHttpRequest spec: The Web API Working Group has published the Last Call Working Draft of The XMLHttpRequest Object. The XMLHttpRequest Object specification defines an API that provides scripted client functionality for transferring data betwe...

By Dion Almaer Today I have my eyes on new technologies that will change client application development (web applications). To see any feedback of my MVP award for 2008 I’d like to concentrate more on those topics. I’m still using AJAX in nearly all my web applications, but the future will bring more impor...

By Dion Almaer Honest Open Source Not all open source projects are equalMake everything open and public immediately (e.g. SVN)Corporate open source projects often lose their flavourOutside commiters are keySome people hate me, but love MongrelDocumentation is poor for Rails and Ruby, Ruby doesn’t...

By Rey Bango I'm always surprised but what people are building using JavaScript & Ajax. It's spurred so much creativity over the last two years and it doesn't appear to be stopping soon. Most recently, I discovered Mibbit, a JS/Ajax-based IRC client, and had the opportunity to interview the devel...

By sbraford Beginning Ajax with PHP (by Lee Babin) is a good introduction to learning JavaScript client-server techniques on the PHP platform. Some of the scenarios Lee walks you through: * Sexy client-side Calendars (that can be built / communicate with the server) * Auto-completion (a la GMail’s...

By sbraford picks up where Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax left off. Frank Zammetti’s practical guide to real-world JavaScript and Ajax will have you developing actual client-side apps in no time. As more of a hacker than a theoretician, this kind of guide appeals to me. Usually [...]

By Michael Mahemoff Ask any self-respecting Ajax developer how they time events, and they’ll tell you “I use setTimout()” or more likely, “I use setTimeout(), duh”. However, two new Ajax patterns are making that “duh” seem just a little tenuous. One new timing technique relies on the notorious tag, the other...

By Dion Almaer is a “crowd-powered content recommendation engine”. We use Ajax in a few, carefully-selected parts of our application to improve the user experience. Our application is written using Ruby on Rails and implements Ajax features using RJS templates and the Prototype library. These tools a...

By Michael Mahemoff In my recent post on current concerns with Ajax, there was a comment about lack of documentation for Dojo and Prototype. In the comments (of the Ajaxian post and my blog post), project members asked what would you like to see wrt documentation? Here’s my wishlist for Ajax framework docs, in...

By Michael Arrington January worldwide Comscore numbers show that the My Yahoo personalized home page has more users, with just over 50 million, than all of its competitors combined. Source: TechCrunch Original Article: http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/101574319/

By Dion Almaer MyPunchbowl, the event planner that may kill evite, has pushed a new version, now with 150% more Ajax. We asked Matt Douglas (Punchbowl team) to tell us what is new, and he replied: All Sign in and Sign up windows are done in a modal dialog. Note the cool Ajax zoom effect we chose to use. We’ve impl...

By Dion Almaer AOL has launched their AIM Webmail beta that uses Dojo for rich interaction a la Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. AOL has been a long term fan of Dojo and it shows in view source: PLAIN TEXT HTML:         Source: Ajaxian Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/aol-launches-dojo-based-ajax-w...

By Michael Mahemoff From the You-Know-When-Ajax-Has-Gone-Mainstream-Dept, Google announced today it will be offering businesses a premium service for its key productivity applications, at $50/user/year. The package includes: Access to office-style applications - Google Docs & Spreadsheets...

By Dion Almaer is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout. is a new question and answers site that uses YUI, JSON, and other libraries to subtly use Ajax throughout. An example check out the very visual sorting:

By Dietrich Kappe You agree that you will not, and you will not permit your users or other third parties to: (a) modify or replace the text, images, or other content of the Google Search Results, including by (i) changing the order in which the Google Search Results appear, (ii) intermixing Search Results f...

By Dion Almaer Comeeko is a new Ajax application from the guys behind Buttonator and PikiPimp. Comeeko allows you to build comic strips out of your own photos (or anything that you upload). The tool itself is a very simple ajax driven application: We have long thought about doing an ajaxian consultant com...

By Dion Almaer frevvo Live Forms is (yet another) Ajax-based web form builder that has been created for business forms. It was created by developers who were getting tired of hand-coding forms for clients. Some specific business form capabilities are: XML aware forms. Fancy layouts – collapsible secti...

By Dion Almaer The demo utilizes several technologies including: IIS7, ASP.NET Ajax Extensions, Linq, Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Powershell, and the .NET Compact Framework.

By Ben Galbraith The month after that, Ajax2007 happens (Apr. 17 - 18). This show has also got a lot of Ajax names, including Jesse James Garrett and Bill Scott (Rico; Yahoo! Ajax Evangelist); Dion and I will also be there to greet our legion of UK Ajaxian.com fans (i.e., Dion’s family).

By Dion Almaer Milan Negovan has a new set of href="http://www.aspnetresources.com/blog/ms_ajax_cheat_sheets_batch2.aspx">cheat sheets for the Microsoft ASP.NET Ajax library. The existing cheat sheets have been updated for the 1.0 final release, and Milan has added two new ones for DomElement...

By Dion Almaer Omnidrive has a remarkably rich Ajax interface to their server backend (as well as mac and windows clients). When you login to the web based file explorer you quickly see that the experience looks very desktop-like. Right-click menus, drag and drop, and more.

By Dion Almaer Fork is the latest JavaScript library to be put out there. Fork is a general purpose, namespaced JavaScript library with Ajax, Events, DOM manipulation. There are a few bonus lines of code specifically for use with Ruby on Rails but Fork can be happily used outside of Rails also. Why create ye...

By Dion Almaer It is documentation Friday. The new site prototypejs.org has launched, and the call for documentation help rang through to some people. This new documentation includes: Tips and Tutorials (e.g. Ajax, Extending the DOM) API Reference Blog There is still room for a lot more help, so join in.

By Dion Almaer Mike Keen has created a simple little site that uses Ajax and MooTools effects to deliver free text messages from the web, without the hassle of registration even. Mike Keen has created a simple little site that uses Ajax and MooTools effects to deliver free text messages from the web, with...

By Nick Gonzalez The problem with SynapseLife is that it isn’t nearly as robust as Zimbra for the enterprise, and not as cool as Goowy for the consumer. And Google continues to domainate this space anyway - Google Calendar and Gmail are best of class online applications.

By Dion Almaer eCirkit.com is a new social networking platform that has it’s fair share of Ajax sprinkled in. On your profile page you can mouse over your user interests and a tooltip popup appears showing the full text of your interests, like favorite TV shows. You can then click the tooltip popup to go into...

By Dion Almaer Jamie Pittock has launched a new ExpressionEngine site and has a couple of articles covering the building of Ajax applications using the PHP framework. In ExpressionEngine and Ajax Jamie covers adding some simple features to an ExpressionEngine application using the Prototype frame...

By Dion Almaer Dylan Schiemann of Dojo and Sitepen has expounded asking What is bloat?. We do hear a lot of people talking about the Xkb of JavaScript that they are willing to put in a page/app, yet bloat is a lot more than that (as Dylan attests). Where does Dojo fit into this?

By Michael Mahemoff It’s the time of year to be posting random predictions for 2007. Here are 2007 Ajax predictions from Dion and myself. Dion predicts: Ajax beats AJAX in all but bad newspapers. Someone tries to coin Ajax 2.0. A large amount of apps have flash AND ajax, and users don’t know or care. Many frameworks co...

By Dion Almaer Jack Slocum is back with an example for creating a reusable Ajax driven dialog with YUI. The example is an Image Chooser, and Jack goes through explaining how he build the application: Creating the Dialog Adding the Toolbar Working with Layouts DomHelper Templates JSON with JSON View

By Dion Almaer Bret Taylor is the guy who is responsible for the first Google Maps. He obvi0usly has a lot of experience, and has recently been on fire with a new blog called the Ajax Cookbook. The blog focuses on small useful JavaScript snippets that do not assume a particular JavaScript/Ajax library, so t...

By Dion Almaer Dojo is more than "an Ajax library". It is a set of JavaScript libraries and packaging system. It just so happens to have a remote binding API in there too. Phobos has seen this and you can now use Dojo on the server side when using the Phobos framework. PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   response.status = 20...

By Dion Almaer Ajax features are abound, and include: An input form for creating a new listing is a WYSIWYG form where the inputs are immediately displayed the way they will look in the end. (Example)The upload of pictures is done with a nice progress meter so users get feedback about how long the upload is...

By Michael Mahemoff And now Doug Crockford has established aa JSON RFC: The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) (via Sleepyhead). ... Source: Ajaxian Original Article: http://ajaxian.com/archives/the-json-rfc.

By Sreejith Google acquires Popular Ajax Web Word Processor Writely. Google today announced the acquisition of writely. Writely, a collaborative word processor that runs in a web browser. Well, as of Monday, I’m happy to say that I, and the rest of the Writely team, are now part of Google.