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July 8, 2007

jQuery 1.1.3.1

I’m pleased to announce the release of jQuery 1.1.3. After many months of testing, developing, and more testing, we have a very solid release available for download. It comes with roughly 80+ fixed bugs and a handful of enhancements for good measure. Highlights include:

Improved speeds, with DOM traversal over 800% faster than in 1.1.2.
A re-written [...]

December 7, 2006

Cool AJAX RSS Feed Aggregator

jMe 1.0 Beta, a very original feed aggregator implementation. The interface is very simple and neat, divided on three section where you can search, select, then post your selected feed items to your blog, forum or other. There is currently a hand selected collection of OS X, Web 2.0 and programming related sources that you [...]

November 8, 2006

script.aculo.us 1.6.5

I’ve just pushed script.aculo.us 1.6.5 for your download pleasure. It’s a maintenance release that adds a few tweaks here and there—read on!

Update to Prototype 1.5.0_rc1 revision [5462]

Support the HTML ‘for’ attribute in Builder by using ‘htmlFor’, fixes #6472 [gjones, tdd]

Add support to run a specific failing unit test by clicking on the corresponding test result, [...]

November 4, 2006

Moo.fx Version 2.0

moo.fx is a 3kb javascript effects library, to be used with prototype.js or the mootools framework. Open source, released under the MIT License, you can feel free to do anything you want with it.

October 12, 2006

Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web response

The great divide between programmers (who work with back-end applications) and Web programmers (who spend their time writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is long standing. However, the Document Object Model (DOM) bridges the chasm and makes working with both XML on the back end and HTML on the front end possible and an effective tool.

September 4, 2006

COWS Ajax - Ajax evolved

COWS Ajax takes over where Ajax leaves off. The web has gone through a great period of experimentation and now there is a dizzying array of frameworks, add-ons, how-to’s, and books. The common element these Ajax aides all fail to overcome is that, even with aides, apps take a long time to create and debug. [...]

July 27, 2006

Prototype Visual Diagram

Jonathan Snook has drafted up a visual diagram showing all the methods and properties available in the popular web 2.0 AJAX script, prototype.js. Available in several resolutions, on black and on white it serves as an excellent cheat cheat for anyone developing web apps.
“In getting to know Prototype a little better, I decided to go [...]

July 21, 2006

XMLHttpRequest Case-Sensitive in IE7

Sleepyhead has posted a quick note about the XMLHttpRequest support in Internet Explorer 7, some bad news - it’s case-sensitive.
The native XMLHttpRequest object in IE7 is case-sensitive. This is no big surprise - however that was not the case with the XMLHttpRequest active-x object in earlier versions of IE. So if [...]

July 17, 2006

Free 10 Week Online AJAX Course by Sun Microsystems

A free 10-week “AJAX Programming” online course is about to start from August 4th, 2006. This course is for anyone who wants to learn AJAX for the first time or increase their knowledge on AJAX. In this 10-week course, students learn basic concept of AJAX as well as how to use various AJAX frameworks and [...]

June 29, 2006

How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible - 40 Tutorials and Articles

Max Kiesler is at it again, this time showing off a monster list of 40 tutorials and articles on making your AJAX app more accessible.
“AJAX is a great tool for creating rich internet applications, however, when improperly implemented it can cause huge accessibility issues. The good news is that most of these issues [...]