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5th january 2007
aja. (another) future of web apps?
look, you know i haven't posted for ages, i know i haven't posted for ages. but i think we're all big enough to forget that, and move on. yeah? good.
so, interesting article on phpit, regarding using ajax without the x. yup, using ajax without the - can be - troublesome xmlhttprequest. not had the opportunity to really try this out yet, but looks good.
take a look at the article yourself.
- related:
- javascript,
- php,
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/07/01/05/aja-a...
5th july 2006
ajaxessibility
as well all know, the theory says that ajax and accessibility go together like a horse and minefield, but thanks to max kiesler you can shove that theory where the sun don't shine. perhaps anyway.
maxkiesler.com has an article titled "how to make your ajax applications accessible - 40 tutorials and articles", and you'd be right if you're thinking that it might be links to 40 tutorials and articles that'll make your ajax applications accessible.
i would write more about it but i'm off to copyright the title of this post.
- related:
- accessibility,
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/07/05/ajaxe...
21st june 2006
it's just like one of them there mac thingys
as you're obviously not doing anything, imagine if you will, a website that recreates a mac's os x right inside your browser window, complete with dock, menus, clock, etc. then, while you're at it, imagine that all of this is done using javascript and ajax goodness. having trouble picturing that? yeah, me too. so, instead, just go to flyakiteosx.
- related:
- javascript,
- sites
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/06/21/its-j...
13th april 2006
bed time reading
relevance are posting reviews of various ajax books, with the aim of producing the definitive list for ajax developers. they seem pretty honest, and certainly worth a read.
there are four books reviewed so far, and they've got "at least another four reviews coming out in the next couple of weeks".
- review one: the javascript anthology
- review two: ajax hacks
- review three: foundations of ajax
- review four: head rush ajax
- related:
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/04/13/bed-t...
10th april 2006
w3c taming the xmlhttprequest animal
missed this last week - you may have noticed i haven't posted for a while as i've been soooo busy - but the standardisation of ajax seems to be on it's way.
the w3c kids published their first working draft on, my friend and yours, the xmlhttprequest object on wednesday. they're aiming to provide more interoperability between the various implementations of the object, so i guess no more new ActiveXObject / new XMLHttpRequest browser sniffing type code.
no doubt this will take a long, long time, but it's nice to know that they're making a start.
you can read the whole w3c working draft if you want to.
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/04/10/w3c-t...
4th april 2006
is anything happening?
it doesn't take a genius to realise that it's good to let your users know that something is actually happening behind the scenes of your brand spanking new ajax app, particularly if you're relying on external resources to send you the data that the user wants. but if, like me, you find creating animated gifs a bit tedious, and you get bitter that you're wasting time when you could be writing code, what you need is an animated gif, loading sequence, generator. if only.
what? oh, right...
it turns out that there is such a thing. at the moment, it only creates one style, but you can customise the background colour and the dots colour to match you site (mmmm, white and grey for me then), but i guess if this thing get's really popular, we may be offered all sorts of crazy sequences soon.
- related:
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/04/04/is-an...
28th march 2006
well, i'll be debuggered
it's rare that i ever need to debug my javascript or ajax apps as i always get it right the first time. ahem. however...
slayeroffice have released a fantastic little script that will overlay any webpage, and display a collapsed list of all the javascript wonderfulness currently referenced on that page - functions, strings, objects, numbers, whatever.
but there's more. slayeroffice aren't asking you to download this script and reference it on every app you're currently developing. oh no, that would be so old school. this thing works as a bookmarklet. simply add this thing to your bookmarks and you can immediately run it on any page you're viewing. now that's clever.
take a look at this thing on slayeroffice.
- related:
- javascript,
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/03/28/well-...
23rd march 2006
ooooh, friendly delete confirmation
joe vasquez has come up with a lovely little script at d3eministry.net. y'know when your developing and testing a web app and everytime you want to delete something you go through the old javascript alert box saying "are you sure you want to delete this"? this can be a real pain in the arse if you're interacting with a database, and everytime you want to delete a record, you get that popping up. well, joe has written a little script that you can put in your apps that'll change the 'delete' button to something like 'really delete?' after the first click. much more friendly. and, if you're on windows like me, you don't get that "duh!" alert sound on top of your itunes everytime you want to get rid of something.
take a look at his script.
- related:
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/03/23/ooooh...
23rd march 2006
don't judge a book by a oneplayer review
ajaxian has put something up about wrox's new ajax book, "professional ajax" (isbn: 0471777781). although i haven't read any of the reviews it mentions, it claims that they are generally positive.
i've had the book for almost a fortnight now, and have gone through most of it, and i'm not that impressed to be honest. perhaps it's simply that it's the first ajax book that i've read - there aren't many around at the moment, although there are several planned over the next few weeks - but, in my opinion, there was very little new information here. once the book covers creating an xmlhttp object (which it then uses the author's zxml library - incidentally available to download at www.nczonline.net/downloads/ - to do for the rest of the book), it's essentially a javascript book. but maybe that's the issue. i mean, what exactly does the term 'ajax' cover, if it isn't simply using javascript to do things that we didn't (sorry, should that be "i didn't"?) do 12 months ago? i don't know.
anyways, i maybe digging myself into a hole here, but the point is, i'm not particularly impressed with the book, but i may have been expecting something different. it's just my opinion. perhaps it'll change as i get deeper and deeper into the book. or when everyone comes out and says "it's brilliant!" and i inevitably jump on the bandwagon.
- related:
- web dev
- permalink:
- http://www.oneplayer.co.uk/06/03/23/dont-...