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ASP.NET AJAX Has Hit Release Candidate 1
ASP.NET AJAX, formally know as the Atlas project, was envisioned as a well to build AJAX applications in an ASP.NET style. Among other things, that means using drag and drop controls instead of hand-coded JavaScript for most use cases. What makes ASP.NET AJAX particularly interesting is the shared-source control library.
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Ajax Framework Comparison Tools article
A new article on BEA's Dev2Dev site provides a way to sort through the numerous Ajax frameworks that are available today. The goal of the technique is to make it easier to understand the distinctions between the various frameworks by placing them on a set of axes including declarative versus procedural and client-centric versus server-centric.
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ICEFaces Ajax/JSF Framework Open Sourced Under MPL
ICEsoft Technologies, Inc. has announced that their ICEFaces Ajax Development Platform is now available under the Mozilla Public License. This release also includes tighter IDE integration and enhanced JBoss Seam support.
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Easy Auto-completion with ASP.NET and AJAX
There is no doubt that AJAX is the future of web development. But can it be made easy enough for the average web developer. Brad Abrams demonstrates that is can.
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Dojo Gains Charting Engine
Today, Greenplum and SitePen announced the contribution of the new Charting engine to the Dojo Toolkit. The Charting engine is a cross-browser way of creating very complex charts easily, that can be updated on a regular basis.
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moo.fx 2.0 released with Fx.Style while Animator.js avoids inheritance
moo.fx 2.0 has been released featuring new effects to modify any CSS property, the color properties of elements, and to internally scroll long divs. An interesting alternative not using inheritance but providing similar functionality is the Animator.js library. moo.fx and Animator.js are JavaScript effects frameworks designed for speed, robustness, and small size.
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Google's Bruce Johnson on GWT 1.2 RC Including OS X Development Support
The first release candidate of GWT 1.2 has been announced. Among the changes are full support for OS X development, faster hosted mode, a new HTTP request module, and widgets in TreeItems. InfoQ sat down with GWT tech lead Bruce Johnson to discuss the release.
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Alex Russell on Dojo 0.4
The Dojo Foundation just released version 0.4 of their JavaScript toolkit with key improvements of accessibility, a 2D vector graphics API, improved internationalization support, and inline API documentation. InfoQ sat with Alex Russell, project lead of the Dojo Toolkit to discuss the new release.
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Spam Prevention without CAPTCHA Images
The ASP.NET AJAX Control Toolkit offers a control that reduces spam on web logs and forums without requiring users to enter a CAPTCHA.
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ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1 released today
Today the Microsoft ASP.NET team announced the released of ASP.NET AJAX Beta 1. There are many changes from the previously released builds and announced support for the Safari web browser. An exciting additional note is promised support for a source modification license.
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The State of Accessibility with Ajax
One of the items of concern as a result of the Ajax revolution is accessibility. Screen reading technology has found it difficult to keep pace with advancements in application design. Access Matters has published a roundup of articles to serve as a starting point for further discussions on accessibility in Ajax applications.
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Backbase Releases Struts Edition
Backbase, a provider of AJAX-based Rich Internet Application (RIA) software, has released Backbase AJAX Struts Edition. The company hopes to extend the life of existing Struts based applications by enabling the addition of AJAX features.
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A Status Update on the OpenAjax Alliance
Coach Wei, CTO of Nexaweb, has written a status update on the OpenAjax Alliance and the challenges he see that exist for Ajax Adoption. He sees the biggest hurdle to Ajax being confusion as a result of numerous Ajax architectures. He also lists several technical issues that he feels the alliance should address such as toolkit loading, name collision, and event interaction between Ajax toolkits.
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Prototype the most popular Ajax framework across Java, .NET, & Rails communities
According to recently released survey results from Ajaxian.com, prototype is the most popular ajax framework in use, by a large margin, followed by Scriptaculous (which is built on prototype). Java-based Dojo and DWR came in 3rd . Backend platforms were also surveyed, with PHP the most used for Ajax, followed by Java, .NET, and Rails.
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Atlas: Full Support and a New Version on the Horizon
Microsoft expects to release version 1.0 of Atlas by year's end with full 24/7 support. "It also means that the product has a committed servicing product lifetime of 10 years - which provides companies with the ability to depend on it for mission critical applications."