Ajax Links - October 2006
I'm doing more and more research on Ajax. Ajaxian is a great "all things Ajax" site for one to do research. It seems to be a very independent site and balanced. Here's a few gems I found on their site over the last few weeks.
- Google Reader sucks less - Google Reader has long be considered the Lame Duck of the Google family. The interface just didn't feel right and everyone knew it. It's been relaunched with a new UI and I'll be giving it a try for a few days. I'm still a FeedDemon fan, but since the wife and I have been sharing calendars with Google Calendar, I've been reintroducing myself to the Google AJAX properties. It looks a lot like Gmail, so it's easy to see these two apps becoming one in the near future.
- Room Visualizer - Check out this amazing AJAX Room Visualizer in Firefox. You can drag and drop paint and carpet samples on to various room layouts and see how it looks. Wish I had this before I remodeled the living room.
- Frametastic - This Firefox-only quick CSS layout prototyper makes clever use of the Prototype Firefox libraries.
- How to detect IE7+ in Javascript - Too bad we have having moved pass all this.
- Payraise Calculator - This is an interesting little calculator...it's simple, but fairly elegant and gives on an idea of what Ajax-based Bill Payment could look like.
- Dynamic Graphics - It should be a little easier, and lighter weight than it is in ASP.NET to make simple graphs. This is a nice example of how to do it in Rails.
Also, an interesting tip about Ajax performance from Max at hive7.com. Max had confirmed a while back that Firefox 1.5 was WAY faster in JavaScript performance against IE7. However, in his recent internal testing he was seeing 5-7 second-long scripts in Firefox 1.5 take under 1 second in Firefox 2 RC2. IE7 was taking as long as a minute in some instances. Great to see the Firefox team working so hard to make Firefox's Javascript implementation so speedy.
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Cheers,
Aaron
For the early adopters, or those who really want Firefox RC2 now... get it. For those who want to wait, it should be out the end of the month.
Its pretty nice, since you can also throw on a Google News widget onto the same page, as well as weather and (if you use it) your gmail account. Its like a portal, but about .00001% as cluttered.
Appreciate the note and the reference!
Doug
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Perhaps crippling performance of Javascript is the new weapon in the Anti-Windows-Everywhere war, instead of the tried and true "hijack standards" strategy.
But hopefully not.