Platform Optimization Strategies for Ajax Toolkits
Dylan Schiemann has posted on Platform Optimization Strategies for Ajax Toolkits which covers techniques for having code run on multiple platforms effectively. He talks about how some frameworks have...
View ArticleWeb April Fools
Ah, that time of year is here again. The day of the "Microsoft bought us" jape. Are there some good'uns this year? The early chaps who jumped the line a touch were the smashing magazine people talking...
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Excuse me, maybe, the foundries, erm, let’s mess with em?
Mark Pilgrim has a certain style, and it was in full force on his latest post on font issues that we have on the Web. Some people are offended by tone and such, but if you ignore that, Mark is actually...
View ArticleSomeone at Apple, please review stance on PhoneGap
We are big fans of PhoneGap, the "open source development tool for building fast, easy mobile apps with JavaScript" including apps that run on the iPhone platform. The PhoneGap team has been winning...
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Craftmanship and UI latency
Ben gave a fantastic talk on creating compelling user experiences that discussed craftmanship in software. He details the somewhat opposing views of Alan Cooper (pictured above) and Joel Spolsky...
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Web OS? Web VM? Value in both?
The following post comes from my personal blog Chrome OS created a whole slew of buzz around the Web finally being an OS. There are many other examples of this of course. On the desktop we have had the...
View ArticleWhy I’m Done Making Desktop Applications
Patrick Mckenzie has written an interesting editorial comparing his life as a desktop developer and a Web one. He talks about an application that he has traditionally sold as a desktop app, and how it...
View ArticleA note from the editors; Hat change!
Dear Ajaxian Community, As editors-in-chief so to speak, I always feel that it is important to fully disclose to the community any affiliation change. We have always tried to by balanced, and show that...
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CBC Radio 3 Case Study
Phil Rabin of CBC Radio 3 has kindly written a guest post on his experience creating a fantastic Web interface for the station that uses Flash for audio, but a full HTML experience that maintains state...
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The End of Days for “View Source”?
"View Source is your friend", we've learned countless times as web developers. It's something special about web development that we can seamlessly lift the covers on anything we see and find out how...
View ArticleView Source; How important was it, is it, and will it be?
Alex Russell has pontificated on the notion that View Source is not only good and important, but that it may be under attack. Do you feel that view source added to the popularity of the Web? or that it...
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Google isn’t Evil. Flash isn’t Dead; Thank god the Open Web doesn’t have a...
The following post is a reprint from my personal blog. It is editorial in nature and even delves into random politics. I apologise. You can deal with it though :) Steve Jobs didn't hold back when...
View ArticleMouseovers on Touch Devices
Most of the thinking on iPad's exclusion of Flash has been focused on battery life, performance, stability, or control of the application market, but here's a Flash developer who's thinking...
View ArticleSo all this is done in HTML5 by the way
What a day. I sometimes don't know how to feel about Apple. On the one hand they do great things for the cause of HTML5: They gave us Canvas, and CSS transforms, and ... They brought us WebKit, and now...
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Web 2.0 Expo Browser Panel
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at Web 2.0 Expo on the future of browsers with Ben. On the panel were distinguished gents. In the photo (courtesy of TechCrunch) you see (sitting...
View ArticleA second look at the “webbyness” of an “installable” Web App
Many in the Web community have been guarded about the notion of "apps" and what a Web app is. Google itself, via Gears and now HTML5 support, were pushing the notion of giving the browser the abilities...
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Are we going to be stick shift drivers amidst the automatic population?
An editorial piece taken from my personal blog goes into some thoughts on the computing platforms and how they are evolving. I have been talking in analogy for the last few days. The common meme is...
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HTML5: Deja Vu on Ajax
What does Open Web mean? What does Ajax mean? Is it AJAX or Ajax? Remember those discussions? We had the arguments ... the purists who would shout and scream if you said something was Ajax and didn't...
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The march to a more client-centric Web; Will the mobile Web, HTML5, and...
Progressive enhancement. Disconnected offline applications. There is a tension brewing in how we deliver applications on the Web. This isn't a new tension. It has been around ever since we started to...
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From zero-install to instant-install
Aaron has a nice editorial piece on going from zero-install to instant-install in which he discusses the notion of web apps: Bringing back a lightweight notion of installation offers an interesting...
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