Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008
"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 Ajax applications. I was a little concerned about this, given that ...
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
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 what barriers need to be removed to enable the next generation of browser-based innovations? The future of Ajax ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
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 good list of feature requests (a total of over 40), collected at OpenAjax ...
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Monday, March 31st, 2008
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.
However, I have concerns. I'm concerned about the significant corporate interests driving towards "unweb". Not to ...
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Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
Introduction:
Ajax application performance largely depends on the performance of JavaScript execution and browser DOM operations. I've heard various people saying various things about Ajax performance. Some people say JavaScript is just too slow. Some people say that the problem is not JavaScript but rather Browser DOM being too slow. ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
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 Toolkit . I didn’t find a thorough answer to my questions when going through Dojo source code (Pardon ...
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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007
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 people's code. One of the common one complains is that Prototype.js adds methods to built-in JavaScript objects ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
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 Mootools. The xModify processor is powerful but quite lightweight (10KB without gzip). There ...
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Tuesday, August 21st, 2007
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 footprint, 10X performance improvement, etc). Now these guys have delivered it! See the release note for ...
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Friday, August 10th, 2007
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 doing some good work here.
A year ago, I was neutral about WAF's widget effort, even supportive primarily ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
Introduction
OpenAjax Alliance has been growing well with over 70 members. The initial OpenAjaxHub received immediate community response - most are positive and a few responses were negative but turned out to be very helpful. Over ten Ajax offerings demonstrated support for OpenAjaxHub already (such as Apache XAP, Dojo, Nexaweb AjaxClient, ...
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Tuesday, May 8th, 2007
Quite a few people are asking me what I think of Sun's JavaFX annoucement . It is funny and we saw this coming - Who wouldn't anticipate Sun to make some big annoucement at JavaOne ? People were predicting the annoucement is going to be "open sourcing Java" - Oh, ...
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Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
Introduction
Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
In my effort to evaluate Dojo performance, I am going to build a custom Dojo widget and create my own build profile so that only the absolutely required files for my application are packaged into the initial download. However, considering the real world best practice, I would create my own ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
AjaxWorld is a great conference that hundrends of people gathered here at RooseVelt Hotel in NYC. You can see and hear the excitement around this new paradigm of computing. But once in while, there are things that are quite amusing.
Java vs. Microsoft WPF : It was great to catch ...
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