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A Comparison of Push vs Pull Ajax
Based on their experimental study, Engin Bozdag, Ali Mesbah and Arie van Deursen of the Delft University of Technology have compiled a technical report on the trade offs in Push versus Pull approcahes to achieve real-time event notifications in AJAX applications.
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jQuery: A new way to write JavaScript for rich web UI
jQuery is a JavaScript Library that simplifies traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding Ajax interactions to web pages. jQuery provides an API to develop feature rich web UI much faster and with fewer lines of code than the traditional JavaScript.
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ColdFusion Steals Microsoft's Update Panel
According to Vince Bonfanti, the developers of BlueDragon have developed a Cold Fusion version of the Update Panel by leveraging Microsoft's AJAX client-side library. Like the ASP.NET version, developers simply need to wrap part of their code in special tags to enable partial page rendering.
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Will The iPhone Be The Tipping Point For Mobile Ajax?
Ajax has largely been a desktop browser focused technology during its initial wave of interest. Apple's iPhone however may be the key to Ajax becoming a mobile "standard" as well.
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Presentation: Building Real World Apps with ASP.NET AJAX
Wally McClure gave a great presentation at the latest devLink conference on ASP.NET AJAX. ASP.NET AJAX is a development technology from Microsoft which integrates cross-browser client script libraries with the ASP.NET 2.0 development framework.
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Google Gears: Industry Reactions The Day After
As part of their developer days activities this week Google announced a new offline web application API Google Gears.
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GWT 1.4 RC Provides Faster Load Times, Widget Enhancements, and Compiler Optimizations
Google's Bruce Johnson has announced the availability of GWT 1.4 RC. The release features a 10-20% size reduction in complied Javascript, 33% faster module load times, and a new ImageBundle optimization feature.
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Presentation: Using Google GWT
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java-centric framework for creating AJAX applications. GWT cross-compiles Java source into JavaScript, allowing Java developers to use their existing Java skills and tools to create AJAX apps. GWT lead Bruce Johnson intros GWT including high-performance AJAX, internationalization, and integration with existing web app.
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ASP.NET Futures to Include Support for Ruby?
The Microsoft website ASP.NET has released the May 2007 edition of ASP.NET Futures. This release demonstrates potential features for post-Orcas versions of ASP.NET including Sivlerlight controls and dynamic language support.
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Picking an Ajax Framework
Dr. Dobbs is currently featuring a case study of the Ajax framework selection process of a development team at T. Rowe Price. The article considers GWT, Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, and Yahoo UI Library.
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DWR 2.0 Adds Reverse Ajax, Script Scope, and Annotation Support
The DWR team has released version 2.0. Major feature additions include support for reverse Ajax allowing server state to be pushed to browser and Java 5 annotations.
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Extended Rails Scaffolding with ActiveScaffold
Scaffolding is a powerful Rails feature which will generate interfaces to interact with your data-model directly. It can either be used as starting-point or administrative backend tool. But the default Rails scaffold ignores relation between models. ActiveScaffold fulfills this and comes with pretty dynamic Ajax UIs.
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Presentation: Ajax Development with ASP.NET
ASP.NET lead architect Nikhil Lothari demonstrates the out-of-box features in ASP.NET Ajax can be used to enrich Web apps with Ajax functionality and incorporate various Ajax patterns in a simple manner; he also demonstrates more powerful usage of the script framework, best practices and design patterns for incorporating and encapsulating script functionality.
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DWR 2.0 Release Candidate 4 is available with GUICE integration
Joe Walker has released the fourth release candidate of DWR 2.0. Significant changes include Guice support, security, and Reverse Ajax fixes. Final release is expected soon.
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Is XML the Future of UI Development?
Or is it JavaScript? A common trend in the new crop of desktop UI frameworks is that they are XML based with some sort of support for JavaScript. We take a brief look at AJAX, WPF/XAML, Flex/MXML, and Firefox’s Gran Paradiso.