Is W3C’s Widget Work Going The Wrong Way?
I have been involved with W3C’s Web Application Format (WAF) Working Group(WG). WAF has been working on “widget” for about one year. Marcos Caceres, a smart recent PhD graduate from Australia, has been...
View ArticleDojo 0.9 Released
Congratulations to the Dojo team in getting 0.9 out! It is something that I have been looking for. Alex Russell showed me some significant improvements comparing to Dojo 0.4 a while ago (much smaller...
View ArticleLow Level Ajax Coding GotCha
People say Ajax is hard…and this may be why. I spent some time playing with Bob Buffone’s newest work on Ajax over the last few days. Bob built an xModify processor that runs on either jQuery, Dojo or...
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Is This a Little Too Much Hacking for Prototype.js?
Prototype.js is a popular Ajax toolkit for web developers. I have enjoyed using it despite the complains I heard from people about how Prototype.js does too much JavaScript hacking that breaks other...
View ArticleProgrammatic DOM Node Manipulation on IE
Programmatic DOM node manipulation is actually not straightforward, given that Internet Explorer has so many unique DOM behaviors. I ran into quite a few issues recently when I was playing with Dojo...
View ArticleWill Rich Internet Become Rich Man’s Internet?
The Web is one of the most important technological as well as social/cultural developments in our life. Its global impact is rooted in its openness and its capability to evolve on a democratic basis....
View ArticleTime to Vote – Ajax Feature Wish List
What would you like to see in the next generation of browsers? Can you help to make the web a slightly better place than where it is today? Various people from the Ajax community have put together a...
View ArticleOpenAjax Publishes Future Browser Feature Wish List Results
What does the Ajax community want from future browsers? How are these different requests prioritized? Web developers have done amazing things with Ajax for both Web 1.0 and Web 2.0 applications, but...
View ArticleAjax-heavy Applications on Google Chrome
“This is the best browser so far” is that I can say after being a Chrome user for one day. First of all, I was glad to find out that I haven’t found Chrome breaking any web application yet, especially...
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