This evening at Max, Adobe presented their annual Sneak Peeks, which are demos of new technologies that they may or may not release in the future. Two of these new technologies pertain to Ajax. One is a tool set that is intended to help developers integrate pre-made Ajax components into their sites. The other is [...]
Here in the US in particular, we’re in the midst of a season with lots of opportunities to send invitations and to take surveys, and I want to tell you about a very cool new way to do both: Yarp. It’s a Ruby on Rails application built by a couple of friends that takes an [...]
I have been using Google’s new browser for about three weeks now, and so far have found it to be very good. I have also found that Chrome makes a very good argument as to why we need to get away from browsers for delivering Web applications.
Before I go any further, let me mention some [...]
In his latest Alertbox column, Jakob Nielsen discusses a research study that could prove to be invaluable to our understanding of how users behave on the Web. The great thing about this study is that it tracked the participants’ behavior as they followed their own usual routines, so it gives some clear insight into how [...]
One of the great advantages that Flash (and by extension Flex) has over Ajax is that you don’t have to worry about browser idiosyncrasies or versions: If your application heavily depends on JavaScript and/or CSS, you could find major issues whenever a new browser version comes out. By contrast, Flash 4 movies that I built [...]
Recently my boss asked me to look into Apple’s Canvas HTML element, and I must say I am very impressed by the exceedingly cool things that various developers have accomplished with it. For example, a company in Connecticut called Emprise has made some killer charting components.
However, to make it interactive you need to use JavaScript, [...]
