Google’s personalized home page now allows users to add their own RSS content! This is big news. Microsoft had better catch up with thier Start.com projet if they expect to capitalize on this space. Google is definitely winning the innovation war on the web.
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From c|net:
Not to be left out of any development trends, Microsoft is working to simplify the job of building so-called AJAX applications, or Web applications with sophisticated graphics.
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From LifeHacker:
Newly-released bookmarklet Del.icio.us Direc.tor turns the Del.icio.us bookmark service into a gorgeous, lively, dynamic application that just about popped the eyeballs right out of my head.
+digg! Extremely useful.
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From Slashdot:
Javascript may have been with us since the beginning of the browser, but it’s going through a renaissance as companies like Google create Javascript-enabled tools like Google Maps . There’s even a nice, newly coined acronym , AJAX for “Asynchronous Javascript and XML”. A nice survey article from [...]
Keep an Open Eye · AJAX: The Foaming Cleanser
developers and architects in general (not just Web developers) should take a look at what is happening in and around AJAX the foaming cleanser in both its Java and JavaScript forms.
This is a concise article on Ajax with some good reference links.
Dare Obasanjo makes some good arguments about how many popular websites violate basic HTTP Specifications, including del.icio.us, Bloglines, and Flickr.
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SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP
This framework allows you to easily use Ajax with PHP (along with a slew of others).
XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines | Baekdal.com
Thomas Baekdal discusses some usability guidelines to consider when developing a web application with XMLHttpRequest objects. Definitely worth a read.