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Kojax? Huh?
Mary Jo Foley has an article called Move over, Ajax. Here comes Microsoft?s ?Kojax?. The thing is, I don't get what it actually is:
Kojax is a mobile development platform, according to my sources, ....... read more
Mon,
01 Dec 2008
HTML 5: Integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms
Mark Pilgrim has a new This Week in HTML 5 that features a bit new proposal for integrating HTTP authentication with HTML forms.
A common use for forms is user authentication. To indicate that an H ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Implementing super in JavaScript
Erik Arvidsson seems to be having fun going through exersizes getting JavaScript to do something his way. The latest little foray is Using catch-alls to implement super.
Firstly, catch-alls are the ab ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
S5 Presentations with CSS Transitions
Shawn Lauriat hacked CSS Transition support into the presentation app S5. Now he has posted slides from one of his talks that uses the functionality.
See how you can add fun (or annoying ;) transition ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
XBug: New JavaScript Debugger
Greg Salisbury has released a new JavaScript debugger called XBug that "currently runs on the Windows XP/Vista platform, but, it can also be used to debug webpages on Windows or Linux servers. It's c ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Visual Event: See where behaviour has been added to a page
Wouldnt it be nice to take a view of your application and see where the behaviour has been added? That is what is shown above, and it is courtesy of Allan Jardine and his new Visual Event tool.
Once ....... read more
Wed,
03 Dec 2008
Decoupling data and UI layers with PubSub architecture
Marcus Westin (who we featured on finger print) gave a talk at the SF JavaScript meetup on a top that is very interesting:
One common issue in my experience are intricate dependencies between the U ....... read more
Wed,
03 Dec 2008
JSOS: jQuery based desktop
There have been plenty of JavaScript desktop in the browsers of the years (ah WebOS!).
James Luterek has posted about the latest jQuery based desktop environment.
I started creating an operating s ....... read more
Fri,
05 Dec 2008
Mozilla, Zazzle, and UIZE
Mozilla is big on tinkeringmaking things your own. They recently released a marketplace for their community to upload its own shirt designs. But because they based it on the Ajax-heavy Zazzle platfo ....... read more
Fri,
05 Dec 2008
MooTools and Sizzle
Valerio Proietti has written a thoughtful post on why MooTools wont use Sizzle (and tries to argue why other libraries shouldnt).
He cites the advantages of having one code base that your project ca ....... read more
Fri,
05 Dec 2008
Web Workers: Tweaked and out in Firefox 3.1b2
Ben Turner posted on Web Workers being available in the upcoming beta2 using the latest spec:
First, we?ve moved away from the old Gears-esque API that we had in Alpha 2 (see previous post) in favo ....... read more
Fri,
05 Dec 2008
Freckle: Time tracking with style
Thomas Fuchs and Amy Hoy are back with another web site, this time Freckle, a new take on time tracking.
Thomas posted about it on his site and shared that it uses an early build of scripty2 which lea ....... read more
Thu,
04 Dec 2008
HTML 5 Gecko Build
Henri Sivonen has posted an exprimental Gecko build that parses HTML 5:
The level of quality is ?It runs and some pages render!? This build is not at all suitable for normal browsing use. Please do ....... read more
Thu,
04 Dec 2008
CanvasTurtle
Eiten Suez, author of jMatter, has been up to some fun hacking recently. He just released CanvasTurtle a JavaScript and Canvas version of the old favourite TurtlePascal.
You can build snow flakes with ....... read more
Thu,
04 Dec 2008
Project Deploy: Customize project directory
Project Deploy is a simple Web application that lets you make a few choices on what your Web project needs, and then it generates a directory structure for you:
It offers a couple unique features f ....... read more
Thu,
04 Dec 2008
A great example of sharing; Sizzle Engine in Dojo Foundation
Voting has started in Dojo land to take in John Resigs Sizzle next-gem CSS selector engine.
This is incredibly exciting, as it shows how Ajax libraries are working together more and more. Instead of ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
SmartGWT 1.0: Huge open source widget set and more
You may remember Sanjiv Jivan as the GWT-Ext developer that changed over the debacle. He then went on to start work on a GWT version of SmartClient libraries and has now released SmartGWT 1.0.
It is a ....... read more
Tue,
02 Dec 2008
Chromium Extensions Design Doc
Aaron Boodman posted about the new design document that discusses what the extension system should look like in Chromium and thus Google Chrome:
Chromium cant be everything to all people. People u ....... read more
Mon,
01 Dec 2008
Meer Meer: Cross browser testing all through your one browser!
The most exciting part of Adobe MAX last week was a service that was announced by Paul Gubbay at the Sneaks session that shows cool tech that Adobe folk are working on. His (very early stage) servi ....... read more
Mon,
24 Nov 2008
Canvas Step by Step Tutorial
Bill Mill has created a nice step by step canvas tutorial that has you building a breakout clone, and you can interactively run code on the fly.
The code path takes you through the following steps: ....... read more
Mon,
24 Nov 2008