http://fullasagoog.com/ Fullasagoog: Chock Full Of Rich Internet Application Goodness en-us modius 2008-10-11T10:52:04+10:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Now that the NDA has been released, book publishers are finally able to get out their wares. Christopher Allen and Shannon Appelcline have written iPhone in Action, and have kindly given the Ajaxian community free downloads of a couple of the early access chapters: SDK Programming for Web Developers delves into the introduction to Objective-C and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F5F-B6AE-CE63-0D4B3FC110119B99 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:18+10:00 Kevin Dangoor of SitePen has introduced Reinhardt a dispatch engine on the client side: A typical server-side web framework today includes three main components: a URL dispatching to some controller object scheme, a template engine, and a data mapping facility. Currently in Dojo, youâ??ll find that the latter two items already exist. dojox.dtl provides the first [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F01-00CD-5219-4624493FD1454A65 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Anne van Kesteren of Opera Software has updated his post on IE 8 to cover beta 2: XDomainRequest: Microsoft unfortunately continues with XDomainRequest rather than making changes to XMLHttpRequest as other browsers are doing and as is being standardized by the W3C Web Apps Working Group. (Disclaimer: I am the editor of XMLHttpRequest Level 2.) [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F11-9C3E-82D1-F99C32B9E6D3C1F4 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Pastebins have become an important part of sharing code with colleagues. Sites such as Pastebin & Pastie.org are extremely popular because they're easy to use and very effective in letting people compare notes on source code, especially in a support setting. Remy Sharp wanted to take the pastebin concept a step further, past the static [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F21-DBFC-C965-1AC248DAF005E779 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Shane O'Sullivan has built a nice search mashup experience called Chofter. It uses all things Dojo, including: Layouts, Dialogs, Menus and ContentPanes for the user interface. dojo.data and dojo.rpc for data transfer. dojox.dtl (Django Templating Library) for transforming search data into visuals. dojo.fx and FisheyeLite for eye candy http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F30-AEE0-19C0-0F590B4EC6581CC6 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 Rakesh Pai wanted to understand scope issues with eval and found a few surprises. He started with the snippet: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var foo = 123; var bar = {     changeFoo: function() {         // We'll keep changing the following snippet         alert(this);         eval("var foo = 456");         // Changing [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A83F40-A6D3-90F4-B4CE170963E8AEC7 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-10T22:08:17+10:00 I'm on the final leg of a three-week vacation/study in Taiwan. (Which, by the way, is a wonderful and underappreciated place, and which I believe would well repay your attention. But that's another post. ;-) Anyway, I've been out of the loop, and have not been in direct contact with... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=E6A3F970-EC5E-44C6-E83F2288179BF75A WebBuilder JD On MX 2008-10-10T22:03:37+10:00 Gasman has created Antisocial, a very enjoyable demo of Canvas doing fake 3d and 2d along with that ZX Spectrum sound that you loved as a kid. Check out the tool to see where the magic happens, and make some music, Spectrum style! I feel like we have been light on showcases recently, so please email us [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DED0BB7C-EF47-01C1-65D22C5EBD648079 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T09:35:33+10:00 Do you like some code pimpage? We saw a couple of interesting posts on this recently in fact. First, our own Christian Heilmann took a table based layout, and in short order turned it over to the light via YUI Grids and CSS. He took this: And it quickly became this: He has made the code available, and is [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DED0BB8B-DC67-B75C-8B0C7730B71D75D6 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T09:35:33+10:00 In just two very short weeks, we’ll be turning the reigns for Lil’Grams back to its righful owners, the parents that we’ve been working tirelessly to help in the battle to preserve their baby’s memories. As we’ve been working to nail down some of the finishing touches (documentation, marketing site, etc.) we realized that there was [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DEA61F57-9579-CD29-F9EFB36D279DDCBE WebBuilder SocialTwister 2008-10-09T08:49:01+10:00 GFS Server is now hosted on Google Code. GFS Server was built back in January 2008 from several other existing open source projects and samples in particular from Apache’s Mina project. Its only natural now that I turn it over as open source. Hopefully others can find this project useful and perhaps [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DEA2A19A-FDD0-C2D0-A9FEE5AF70CB5FC6 WebBuilder Chad Lung 2008-10-09T08:45:12+10:00 2Advanced recently launched the "Call of Duty Headquarters", a content-rich and community-centric destination revolving around the upcoming video game title, "Call of Duty: World At War", which will be released by Activision on November 11th in the U.S. and on November 14th in Europe. The site features a robust system of social networking features such [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DEA12FDA-DE8C-4B72-8E886F49AD8046CC WebBuilder plat4m 2008-10-09T08:43:37+10:00 2Advanced recently launched the "James Bond: Quantum of Solace" website, which is centered upon the upcoming video game title "Quantum of Solace", being released by Activision this Fall. The site features a robust system of social networking features such as a unique Flash-driven "Avatar Builder" which enables users to customize a community avatar with unlocked [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DEA12FEA-A21B-ADCB-3E11F2912C56A5A2 WebBuilder plat4m 2008-10-09T08:43:37+10:00 Lack of support for XHTML is a fact of life on the web in 2008. Prior to the 3.0 series of Firefox the XHTML processor in Gecko was so poor that Mozillaâ??s own engineers recommended against it[27]; no version of Internet Explorer up to, and including, IE 8 support XHTML at all, and a number [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD31417C-9E9B-CF05-96E4AFC3D48D319A WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 The Jaxer team has released a release candidate for Jaxer 1.0. Here a synopsis of all the new features and improvements that have gone into this latest release candidate: Jaxer.Sandbox: HTTP-level control; support readyState, toHTML, waitForCompletion Built-in, extensible dispatching for RESTful and RPC service requests Fast, native JSON support Improved APIs for HTTP Request and Response More flexible handling of application [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD31418B-AACA-CE03-E9A843482BDBC9AF WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 Ars Technica has a new columnist, John Resig. His first piece is on Extreme JavaScript Performance which has started to come to us in abundance recently! His article focuses on the latest updates to the fish, SquirrelFish Extreme: A popular technique that is gaining traction amongst JavaScript engine implementers is that of optimizing the engine, while it’s [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD31419B-08DE-4474-224C7A850DFE681E WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 When I posted about using navigator.geolocation now the only support that I had was via Gears and the ClientLocation API. I wrote the shim to try to get you the W3C API no matter what, and today we have the first implementation in a browser, via Geode. Geode is the latest project in Mozilla Labs that [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD3141AB-0DB7-5466-ABB2A2705B7181D6 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 Last week, we posted a story about deploying GWT to PHP back-ends. We’ve got another GWT-ish post this week: Pyjamas, a sort of GWT for Python. The SourceForge project page has a brief overview and pointers to a tutorial, a widget showcase, and more. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD3141BA-0CEE-C2BE-4BC6EBB681DC34A9 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 Sunava Dutta has detailed the enhancements made to IE 8 beta 2 for Ajax developers including XDR, XDM/postMessage, DOM Storage, offline detection, and more. A lot of great stuff! XDomainRequest (XDR) This is an object built from the ground up to make client-side cross-domain calls secure and easy. To reduce the chances of inadvertent cross domain [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DD3141D9-07D3-EFC5-8FD788C50C0184B2 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-09T02:01:44+10:00 This is a very simple exercise in which we will write a couple files (one HTML, one PHP) and use the iPhone to test it out. To follow along you'll need to have the following: 1. An iPhone (3G or older model is fine) - you can also get away with regular Safari or most [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=DC8D5DDB-DCF3-6C91-5B0373216453D65A WebBuilder Chad Lung 2008-10-08T23:02:44+10:00 Some time ago, I posted Adobe Beginner Classes Episode #9 and along with it, made a request to ask what you'd like to see in terms of tutorials, information and the like. I received a few comments and wanted to quickly take the time to respond to some of them before it gets too out of date.  Read on to find out more. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D77723BD-C80D-784A-64D68C322F0DB368 WebBuilder Genesis Project 2008-10-07T23:20:21+10:00 Based on its performance on the regexes it does handle, WREC (WebKit Regular Expression Compiler) is indeed an awesome design. regexp-dna.js, however, is flawed and exaggerates SFX performance. We could use nanojit to make a regex compiler for SpiderMonkey that would perform as well as WREC. But I donâ??t know if itâ??s worthwhile yet. Regex performance [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A01-9FFE-8696-31E5F173949C1E75 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 Pete Higgins released Dojo 1.2 the first version under his command. There are a ton of subtle improvements such as: New Datastores dojox.data.JsonRestStore dojox.data.CouchDBRestStore dojox.data.GoogleFeedStore: A Google AJAX API powered data store for retrieving RSS and Atom feeds from Google. dojox.data.GoogleSearchStore: Data stores to interface Google’s AJAX search services. dojox.data.PersevereStore: dojox.data.PersevereStore is an extension of JsonRestStore to Persevere’s spec http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A11-B075-B76F-E4A2C82D9E45BDFC WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language (or SMIL) 3.0 has now become a proposed recommendation at the W3C. SMIL hasn’t been widely used, but some of it is widely supported thanks to ACID tests that had the browser vendors put it in. 3.0 has the following goals: Define an XML-based language that allows authors to write interactive [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A20-A1BE-928E-AD91DA87E61764DB WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 Matt Raible has posted on the Ajaxified Body pattern, that loads content into the main area instead of reloading an entire page. The surrounding template stays put, and the red area changes when you have an action: This is an old question: “When should you just reload the page?” In the sample application you see the [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A30-983F-9049-9BAB8E482EAA8155 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 Michael Carter et al have been working on js.io, a client library that gives you networking, including Comet like support, via JavaScript. The low level work can sit upon Comet APIs, and in the future, Web Sockets, and you get high level APIs to protocols such as: amqp imap irc ldap smtp ssh stomp telnet xmpp There are some demos such as LiveHelp that uses Orbited [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A40-CB9D-0453-EFA5A2ECBEFF016F WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 Mecca is a new browser by the prolific Todd Ditchendorf of Fluid fame. It is currently in the works, and features: Open Plug-in Architecture Built-in Userscripting Userstyles Ã?berView for Plug-in Split Views Global Keyboard Shortcut Single-Window Browsing Mode BrowsaBrowsa Plug-in for Sidebars Session Restore Full-Screen Mode Customizable Shortcuts Integrated Gears-loading (InputManager) Hidden “Closed” Windows Thumbnail Plug-in for CoverFlow TinyURL creation/expansion Automatic S http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=D71C2A5F-C3C3-CEBC-BBFEB23BDDCCD219 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-07T21:40:59+10:00 I've had this comp kind of worked out for some time, but haven't had the time to write it up. Given that it's pretty easy, I've decided to let it out and hopefully get you intruiged and dive into After Effects a bit.  If nothing else, use the attached project file and substitue your own footage or stills. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C560113C-97DF-6B22-47C631F99E0387A1 WebBuilder Genesis Project 2008-10-04T11:01:59+10:00 If After Effects is your thing, then you have a ton of plugins and already know about 3D Stroke.  If you're into dabbling, then you'll want to check this plugin out as a trial at your first opportunity. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C560114C-A38F-F146-40EA000AABBB2138 WebBuilder Genesis Project 2008-10-04T11:01:59+10:00 When I see GWT web apps like this one, it seems like we are seeing a glimpse of the future and the way web apps will be built. This particular one uses the GwtPHP framework. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F9E8D-06FD-6BC7-4EE319D46F4FA3A5 WebBuilder Chad Lung 2008-10-04T11:01:30+10:00 I am so happy that the NDA mess is over! Clancy has written about how you can have your iPhone Web app run in full screen and has a demo app that shows it off: PLAIN TEXT HTML:   <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;" /> <meta name="apple-mobile-web-app-capable" content="yes" /> <meta names="apple-mobile-web-app-status-bar-style" content="black-translucent" />   http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F7E62-C7F2-FE51-7138C84916738FC2 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-04T11:01:21+10:00 Here's an interesting link for a Friday. Viktor Zeman on Quality Unit sent us a link to "PostAffiliateXpress", some boring IT application with an interesting interface and an even more intriguing back-end. The UI combines a Vista-like "Start" menu along with an OS X-like dock (using everyone's favorite fish-eye widget). It also has a built-in widget [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F7E72-F89F-9891-8DCC2D0F863A20E0 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-04T11:01:21+10:00 I got to meet Aaron Newton at The Ajax Experience, and he is a thinker. He was really taking in the various talks, and interactions, and you could tell that he was trying to work out various angles on the frameworks. What makes them different? What makes them popular? Where are they going? He wrote a [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F7E81-92DA-68A3-5F30940BB87D3073 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-04T11:01:21+10:00 Oliver Steele gave a great talk at The Ajax Experience this week on Practical Functional JavaScript. For his talk, he ended up creating a samples application where you can run the code directly, very similar to what John Resig did in Learn JavaScript. The samples take you through JavaScript world, stopping for: Callbacks Functions Closures Idioms Throttling Caching Retry http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F7E91-0A54-16D8-A888F95DF6E04A95 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-04T11:01:21+10:00 Kyle McGregor took a look at the JavaScript games for Life out there and decided to write a Canvas version that ends up being a lot snappier. The entire game is pretty small: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   var counterface = 0; var oInstance; var Game = Class.create();   Game.prototype = {         'working': false,         'map': ',       [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C55F7EA1-E24E-7E96-E93705A084BBD7F0 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-04T11:01:21+10:00 Acid3 progress and what it really means. http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=C1578620-FB08-246A-8CEACE0AABBAE479 WebBuilder WebStandards 2008-10-03T16:14:10+10:00 Netflix has a long history of presenting at the Ajax experience, starting with Sean Kane giving talks on their use of Ajax and their approach to usability to this year’s presentation when Bill Scott revealed Netflix’s new Ajax developer APIs. If these APIs were just about allowing developers to manage rental queues, it would be of [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=BFB4D213-DF2C-0BDF-E0256AE568AA8317 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-03T08:36:50+10:00 Alvaro Videla just wrote in to tell us about Firesymfony, a Firebug extension that provides an alternative to Symfony’s built-in web debug toolbar. sometimes the toolbar position makes impossible to use some features of the layout of our website, like a link menu on the top right corner. It also happens that while we display a [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=BFB4D223-9DD8-E3BF-25AEC560C03862DD WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-03T08:36:50+10:00 Nate Koechley has announced YUI 2.6.0 final: 2.6.0 introduces a new Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable), includes more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, graduates eight components out of â??beta,â? and now ships with more than 290 functional examples. To go along with the carousel and [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=BFB4D233-9915-BA19-17A9A88A0275614F WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-03T08:36:50+10:00 The WebKit Web Inspector has been redesigned and improved, and it looks great. Here is a brief look into the features. Redesigned First and foremost, the Web Inspector is now sporting a new design that organizes information into task-oriented groups â?? represented by icons in the toolbar. The toolbar items (Elements, Resources, Scripts, Profiles and Databases) are [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=BFB4D242-F28A-39F4-7E93FEF4D1239754 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-03T08:36:50+10:00 At our Ajax Experience keynote this year, Dion and I coded up a simple little program that buzzed at random intervals every 10-120 seconds. Whenever it buzzed, one of us had to stop talking and the other would have to pick up right where the other guy left off. It definitely kept things fresh. Quite a [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B8DF8594-F9E7-11F5-CA9F08CEC96D359F WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-02T00:46:08+10:00 Steve Souders is launching Hammerhead today at The Ajax Experience. What is Hammerhead? I kinda think of it as continuous integration for performance. It is a Firebug plugin that you can setup to monitor the performance of your application. Imagine if you add a new feature that you think will speed things up, this tool [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B8DF85A4-E4A0-F5F6-B65A2AC83D4EA341 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-02T00:46:08+10:00 Uriel Katz wrote in to tell us that he's burned his GearsORM framework to the ground to create the entirely new JStORM framework, announced in his blog. JStORM currently supports Google Gears, Aptana Jaxer, and Adobe AIR, but it's still bleeding edge: no documentation yet, just code. But the feature-set is interesting: * define your tables [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B8DF85B3-B271-B0B5-8E485F267685D698 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-02T00:46:08+10:00 Just a short one, Prototype has a new point release that is a drop in replacement for your 1.6.* code: Yesterday we released Prototype 1.6.0.3, the result of some much-needed bug fixes, and a stopgap release on the road to 1.6.1. Itâ??s a backwards-compatible, drop-in replacement recommended for all users of Prototype 1.6. Weâ??ve fixed 30 bugs [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B8DF85C3-C90F-E8AD-E62E8D8E1C2984F7 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-02T00:46:08+10:00 We’ve heard a lot about optimizing CSS, HTML and JavaScript but one thing that is less talked about is how much extra information image editors put into image files. You might think you’ve done a great job optimizing your GIFs, PNGs and JPGs while still keeping them visually pleasing but when you use a text [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B79BCDF2-039D-284F-563A530A794DB450 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-01T18:52:33+10:00 BigTarget.js is a new little jQuery plugin that makes bigger targets for users: Wrapping a single anchor around the whole content (title, thumbnail, summary) is a bad idea as itâ??s not standards compliant and renders the page invalid. So I turned to my good friend jQuery and threw together the following plugin using the â??Learning jQueryâ?? [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B79BCE01-A3E6-6FA8-E00115DE40CF0726 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-01T18:52:33+10:00 Mark Pilgrim, in his latest episode on This Week in HTML 5, got into an interesting topic indeed: clickjacking. The big news this week is the disclosure of a vulnerability that researchers have dubbed "clickjacking." To understand it, start with Giorgio Maone's post, Clickjacking and NoScript. Giorgio is the author of the popular NoScript [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B79BCE11-DFCA-A892-BF5BE7F6848234C1 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-01T18:52:33+10:00 Bill Zeller and Ed Felten have published a report on Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks on popular Web sites: We found four major vulnerabilities on four different sites. These vulnerabilities include what we believe is the first CSRF vulnerability that allows the transfer of funds from a financial institution. We contacted all the sites involved and gave [...] http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B79BCE21-EEBE-C623-9BEABEC8ED9A0A4A WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-01T18:52:33+10:00 Blaine Ehrhart wrote a fun little fish tank using Dojo, as another example of doing animation using JavaScript, which includes the following to give you a taste: PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:   function playBubble (target,newbubble) {         var top = parseInt(target.style.top);         var left = parseInt(target.style.left);         var rand = 50+Math.round(50*Math.random()); & http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B79BCE30-D2DF-5127-370298668A505672 WebBuilder Ajaxian 2008-10-01T18:52:33+10:00 I'm in Taipei Taiwan now, on holiday, and am caught in the middle of Super Typhoon Jangmi, running smack dab across the center of the island today. I'm safe -- other people bear the brunt of the danger -- but I'll be stuck in a hotel room looking out across... http://www.fullasagoog.com/go.cfm?itemid=B794B765-F857-D148-D3927D172083840D WebBuilder JD On MX 2008-10-01T18:44:48+10:00