Andrew Sutherland developed a beautiful Ajax Based version of the Periodic Table.
You click on an element in the table and a window pops up up with more detailed information about the element. The rest of the page is also greyed out.
[tags]Ajax, web2.0, Web 2.0[/tags]
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One of the major complaints that users have about Ajax interfaces is that they have no idea when things are happening in the background. If some important background activity is going to be happening, something that the user needs to wait for, a developer should make an effort to indicate this to the user.
Example:
An input box for user id fetches relevant information from the server. If the user does not exist then the rest of the form should be disabled and the user should be alerted. Imagine now if the user continues to enter half the form (there are some fast typists out there and/or some slow internet connections) they are only going to be annoyed that their typing was all in vain.
Solution:
When background activity is going on, the user should be giving some sort of visual indication. Text is an alternative, but some nice Activity Indicators (animated GIFs) can also be used to grab the user's attention.
[tags]ajax, web2.0, web 2.0, javascript, java script[/tags]
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It's been a long time in the making, but I've finally decided to release a link about this. I have been hunting around a couple places and looking at different solutions around, this is the only thing that seems to work for me. Check out this article: Content with Style: Fixing the Back Button and Enabling Bookmarking for AJAX Apps
Everyone's favourite [tag]AJAX[/tag] technology app is Google Maps. Google have done a stunning job... But when I came to try to bookmark a page and I had to hunt around for 'link to this page' over on the right hand side. Why have they broken such a basic function of the web? I use bookmarks A LOT and the extra effort bothered me. I got over it though, and life went on.
This solutions stems from solutions that Flash developers have been using for some time now. It simply allows the loading of session variables and other needed information in the address bar so that it can be bookmarked. I'm using the solution of placing information after the hash character (#) in the URL under the heading "It's all too easy" because my development environment is strictly going to be Firefox. This solution does not work in IE however. There is a solution that works for IE under the "Now you're just being difficult" heading but I haven't really looked at it.
New AJAX Website Unveiled: AJAX.sys-con.com @ SYS-CON AUSTRALIA
If you want to learn AJAX you should probably buy a few books, buy an AJAX IDE, and go to a few training classes. But all three things will cost you money. So why not first mingle with people that already know it, by visiting - at no cost - the very latest and fastest-growing AJAX web site, http://ajax.sys-con.com - it's where the prime movers of AJAX come to learn who's doing what in AJAX, why, when, and with whom.
I just stumbled upon this. You may want to take a look. I'm still browsing around. More to come later.
[tags]Ajax, web2.0, web 2.0[/tags]
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One of the most painful things that I'm going through right now is trying to debug my Ajax applications. Debugging any Javascript application, for that matter, is a pain in the neck. Some may claim that we have the Venkman JavaScript Debugger available. True, I suppose.
But take this into consideration:
Most large JavaScript applications and especially Ajax applications are going to be event driven and object driven. How does one track one specific instance of an Ajax call? Things like this are going to remain unanswered for now, until someone comes up with a more reliable IDE for developing Ajax apps. For me, the Venkman JavaScript Debugger is extremely bulky and slow. I mean it gets the job done, but only barely. It sucks up a ton of browser resources also.
Jadudm over at untyped has put out an interesting post about debugging Ajax.
why should developers be willing to take eight steps backwards and be shafted with printf as their primary debugging tool when working with AJAX?
AJAX Translator called AjaxTrans was developed by Joel Parish. Right now, it seems to be in a very beta stage, but it is functional. Just start typing and text the is automatically translated for you. No need to hit enter to submit anything. The following languages are available: Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
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Now I've seen everything, holiday Ajax jingles:
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The "Real-World AJAX One-Day Seminar" is scheduled for Monday, March 13th 2006 in New York City. There are some huge names that are going to be speaking at this seminar:
This one-day AJAX seminar will feature 15 speakers in 11 sessions, including the world's most renowned AJAX experts: Jesse James Garrett, the Father of AJAX; David Heinemeier Hansson, the creator of Ruby on Rails (with his very first talk on "AJAX in Rails"); Satish Dharmaraj, the creator of server-side Java; Bill Scott, AJAX evangelist of Yahoo!; Scott Dietzen, the creator of WebLogic; Rob Gonda, the bestselling AJAX author and evangelist; and Ross Dargahi, well-known AJAX evangelist and architect.
There are also going to be speakers from companies that have real world use of Ajax. Keep an eye out at www.ajaxseminar.com for registration information. If it wasn't for school and the fact that I'm almost a thousand miles away, I would definitely be there.
Right now, in my opinion, Ajax is being used all over the place haphazardly. I honestly do hope that this seminar answers a lot of questions for all and possibly the development of some sort of Ajax standard could be started.
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