Framework
YUI3 PR2 now available - extendable with own widgets and plugins
Over at the YUI blog Satyen Desai just announced the release of YUI3 PR2. The main changes are that the widgets from YUI2 are now all getting ported over to the new, leaner YUI3 architecture and that ....... read more
Wed,
10 Dec 2008
Cappuccino 0.6 Released
The Cappucinno team has a new release, 0.6 that include:
New language addition to Objective-J: The @accessors keyword to eliminate the boiler plate code of writing setters and getters. Read more ab ....... read more
Fri,
12 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
Memberkit: Another Shot at VB for the Web
Two years ago we covered JotForm, a Ajax-based web form builder. The folks behind it have been busy in the intervening time and have now released a more general tool: Memberkit.
Three years in deve ....... read more
Fri,
21 Nov 2008
Widgetplus: Server side Ajax widgets
Mikael Bergkvist has created Widgetplus, a gadget platform. He told us about it.
XML Runtime
The structure of an application is defined in XML.
It?s loaded into the serverside runtime like this: java ....... read more
Thu,
30 Oct 2008
ZK 3.5 Released with Comet Support
ZK 3.5, the latest version of the server-side Ajax Framework, is out with a raft of new features. Three of those features really stand out for me:
Comet server push
Customization of look and feel
P ....... read more
Thu,
18 Sep 2008
The JavaScript Framework Long Tail
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 ....... read more
Fri,
05 Sep 2008
Making creating DOM-based applications less of a hassle
Creating a lot of HTML using DOM methods can be a real pain. This is what students of the Juku training course that I held two weeks ago found out quite quickly and complained about the verbosity of i ....... read more
Wed,
20 Aug 2008
Adobe AMF Support in Zend Framework
Andi Gutmans of Zend has posted on a proposal for AMF support in the Zend Framework, which is being lead by the AMFPHP project leader, Wade Arnold.
This ZF component will allow for client-side appl ....... read more
Thu,
31 Jul 2008
Dojango: Two great tastes in one can!
Dojango, a template Django application that includes full Dojo support baked in, has been released by Tobias Klipstein, Nikolai Onken, and Wolfram Kriesing.
It provides capabilities to easily swit ....... read more
Mon,
28 Jul 2008
Loom: Annotation based Java Framework
Ignacio Coloma has announced Loom 1.0 RC 1. Loom is an annotation-based java web Framework that includes a ton of new features in this release. After some selective process, these are the bits that co ....... read more
Wed,
02 Jul 2008
SymbolicWeb: Ajax and Comet with Lisp
No matter how much Paul Graham talks about his Web success, we don't hear too often about Lisp-powered Web applications. SymbolicWeb is offering up a new type of Framework to help change that.
Symbol ....... read more
Wed,
25 Jun 2008
Making application modules communicate with each other using Decoupling
Ive been talking about event driven application design in JavaScript in January last year and inspired Caridy Patiño to write his Bubbling Library based on these ideas. Caridy now upped the ante a b ....... read more
Tue,
22 Apr 2008
DOMAssistant 2.7 is Out, Strong Unicode Support and Enhanced Performance
Now that DOMAssistant has a formal team behind it, the updates keep coming fast and furious. The team announced last night the release of DOMAssistant 2.7, with a host of new features and big improvem ....... read more
Wed,
09 Apr 2008
jqunit: extending jquerys testrunner to all
Michael Grosser has created jqunit which wraps jQuerys testrunner in a way that makes it work with jsUnit, and also useful for libraries other than jQuery. Here is a full example: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIP ....... read more
Tue,
18 Mar 2008
Echo 3 releases client side component model
Echo has been known as a Java server side component Framework, but with the release of Echo 3, they have added a way to build component applications using JavaScript:
Client-side Echo applications do ....... read more
Wed,
19 Mar 2008
YUI 2.5 released - Layout Manager, File Uploader and graphical JavaScript Profiler - and that is just the start
Version 2.5 of the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) was released today. You can get all the details on the official blog post, but heres the change log :
The new Layout Manager allows you to cre ....... read more
Wed,
20 Feb 2008
Audible Ajax Episode 24: Aptana Jaxer Talk
I had the opportunity to sit down with three fine gents from Aptana to discuss their recent launch of Jaxer, the "server side Ajax Framework". Paul Colton, Uri Sarid, and Kevin Hakman all sat with me ....... read more
Mon,
18 Feb 2008
OnionML: Server Side JavaScript Layout Engine
Marcello Bastéa-Forte has developed OnionML, a layout template language that uses server side JavaScript with Rhino and E4X on the back end. The high-level goal of the template engine is to be somethi ....... read more
Thu,
14 Feb 2008
Choosing a JavaScript Framework
With so many good JavaScript Frameworks available, its getting harder to decide in which direction to head. Brian Reindel offers some good advice to those looking to embrace a Framework but arent qu ....... read more
Thu,
01 Nov 2007