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Announcing AJAX Libraries API: Speed up your Ajax apps with Google’s infrastructure
via Ajaxian by (author unknown) on May 26, 2008
Shared by tforster Finally! This is great. Are there any implications though? Will they be native versions or will Google modify them at all. I'm thinking of Google Analytics hooked in there somehow...I just got to announce the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools faster...
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Testing IE Versions Just Got a Little Easier
via Ajaxian by Rey Bango on May 28, 2008
Testing your sites on different versions of Internet Explorer has always been notoriously difficult mainly due to the fact that Microsoft prevents you from running to different versions of the browser in Windows. Sure there have been solutions to get around this limitation but in my experience, they’ve always caused unexpected results and instability for the operating system or required you to...
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Firebug 1.1 and getfirebug.com
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on February 05, 2008
... debugging,executable lines marked with green line numbers,user-controlled naming of eval() buffers,Stack side panel on “Script” panel for callstack,Supports Firefox 3,“better” debugging icons,CSS errors report against source lines,bug fixes (incl. issues 8, 69, 218, 230, 239, 249, 269, 314, 321, 345)Internal firebug debug outputI raise a drink to John for keeping Firebug going strong!
Shared by: Rich, John, Jean, Aranyx, TaopaiC, Ioannus, Mathieu, dH,
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Yahoo! BrowserPlus: Sneak Peak
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 27, 2008
Yahoo! has released a sneak peak into Yahoo! BrowserPlus which came out today asA platform for extending the Web: an end-user installs it and a developer uses its features through a small JavaScript library. Some of the features that exist in the platform today include:Drag-and-drop from the desktopClient-side image manipulation (cropping, rotation & filters)Desktop notificationsYou can head over...
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Speed Up! with Wordpress and Gears
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 28, 2008
Reposted from my personal techno.blogI was sitting on the tube a few months ago in London when I looked up to see Matt Mullenweg, Om Malik, and another nice chap whose name escapes me. A little random to bump into them in the middle of London, but we were all in town for the “Future of Web Apps” conference. I had the fortune to chat with Matt a little about Gears and Wordpress. The marriage...
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Yahoo! Design Stencil Kit 1.0
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on June 01, 2008
... in various states including:Ad UnitsCalendarsCarouselsCharts and TablesUI ControlsForm ElementsGridsMenus and ButtonsMobile - GeneralMobile - iPhoneNavigation and PaginationOS ElementsPlaceholder TextScreen ResolutionsTabsWindows and ContainersWhip out Omnigraffle or your tool of choice and get going :)You can download the artifacts in various formats: OmniGraffle,Visio (XML),PDF,PNG,SVG.
Shared by: Nuno, psvensson, Bret Taylor, charlie anzman, Ron, jimmysessions, kukoo,
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JavaScript Super Mario Kart
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 22, 2008
Jacob Seidelin keeps on going, and has created a Super Mario Kart prototype:It uses the canvas element to do most of the rendering and should work in both FF2, FF3, Opera(9.27 and beta) and Safari 3.1.1. There are a few glitches in Safari in the kart sprites, but other than that it should be playable. Also, if you’re using WebKit nightly builds, make sure you’re using the latest, as some of...
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Addressbook: An example of the Form History Pattern
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on May 27, 2008
One of the examples that Ben and I give in our State of Ajax talk at Google I/O today revolves around form history.We were thinking about the case for Undo on the Web that Aza Raskin is proposing and it got us thinking about the usage patterns of form data.An example that got me was the Address Book application on the Mac. I find myself storing past addresses in the general “Notes” section at...
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Lily, JavaScript Visual Programming Tool
via Ajaxian by Rey Bango on January 28, 2008
Bill Orcutt just announced the first beta release of Lily, an open source, Mozilla based visual programming environment written in Javascript. Lily is a very neat way of building an application by connecting modules which handle the intricacies of working with data, animation and sound. It’s a testament to the power of JavaScript:I’m happy to announce the first beta release of Lily, an open...
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Server Side JavaScript Databases Access
via Ajaxian by Dion Almaer on February 05, 2008
... the server side code from the client side code, which is a better practice anyway, but it does make you think about what goes where. In a pure Gears solution I can put everything in one place since it all runs on the client. Create the new gears_init.jsA new gears_init.js acts as the shim itself. Instead of doing the typical Gears logic, it implements the Gears database contract. This ...
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