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jQuery Gaining Traction With 1.2 and jQuery UI
jQuery is quickly becoming the Ajax library of choice for many. jQuery 1.2 was released yesterday and has many new features. A preview/teaser of jQuery User Interface was shown as well.
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Silverlight Goes 1.0 With Linux Support on the Horizon
Microsoft officially launched Silverlight 1.0 today with support for OS X and Windows. Additionally they will be working with Novell to extend support to Linux.
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Adobe Announces HD Video Support for Flash and AIR
Adobe has announced that the Flash Player and their AIR application platform will support the H.264 codec, the same standard deployed in Blu-Ray® and HD-DVD® high definition video players. They are also adding High Efficiency AAC (HE-AAC) audio support.
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Does Adobe AIR's Future Include An Office Competitor?
A piece on wired.com featuring Adobe's Mike Downey early last week, Tipping the Microsoft Cash Cow Could Be Adobe's Next Move, set off a lot of speculation and debate about their intentions and the opportunities in the Office Suite space. Downey clarified his remarks later in the week to reaffirm Adobe's focus on AIR as a platform.
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Adobe Air: Two Months Later
In June, Adobe officially gave their Apollo development project the name Adobe AIR (Adobe® Integrated Runtime) and released a new beta. InfoQ takes a look at how the beta has been received.
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Tibco releases PageBus - Ajax publish/subscribe component
A few days ago Tibco announced the availability of PageBus, which is a framework to allow publish/subscribe between Ajax components on the browser side. Furthermore Tibco made PageBus an open source project under the BSD license. PageBus provides an important component for building mashups in RIAs in a more flexible, loosely coupled way.
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Laszlo Supports Integration of Web Services with Webtop
Laszlo Systems continues to carve out their niche in the RIA space with growth in the end user, developer, and customer bases for OpenLaszlo. In addition, they have strengthened their product suite with their recently announced enterprise offering, Laszlo Webtop.
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Silverlight to Not Support ArrayList
In an effort to reduce the size of the Silverlight runtime, most of the non-generic collection types will be removed. These include types once considered essential to .NET programming including ArrayList, Hashtable, and Comparer.
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The Three Religions of Rich Internet Applications
From Ajax to Silverlight, from Adobe Integrated Runtime to Flex and Flash, from JavaFX to OpenLaszlo, Rich Internet Aplications seem to be on the tip of everyone's tongue these days. What people mean when they talk about Rich Internet Applications differs. Simon Morris cuts through all that to identify a taxonomy of Rich Internet Applications, the "three distinct religions in the RIA space."
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Sun to Enhance Video Support with Java Media Components
Some have argued that Java needs to fix its support for media and video, fast, or risk being shut out of the desktop and rich internet application space. Java Media Components may bring some relief: "This new feature, hopefully shipping in Java SE 7, is intended to support basic playback for Java applications. JMC is also, eventually, intended to address capture and streaming capabilities."
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Presentation: Using Google GWT
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a Java-centric framework for creating AJAX applications. GWT cross-compiles Java source into JavaScript, allowing Java developers to use their existing Java skills and tools to create AJAX apps. GWT lead Bruce Johnson intros GWT including high-performance AJAX, internationalization, and integration with existing web app.
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View Source for Silverlight
Ernie Booth has released a plug-in for Reflector that allows users to view the decompiled source for Silverlight applications.
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Oracle JDeveloper 11g Preview and over 80 AJAX-enabled Open Source JSF Components Released
Oracle has released a technology preview version of its JDeveloper 11g IDE along with over 80 freely-available AJAX-enabled JSF components, bolstering its visual development capabilities with improved support for rich-client interfaces, live database connectivity, data binding, and more.
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Sun to Introduce JavaFX Mobile and JavaFX Script
According to industry publications, Sun is slated to announce JavaFX Script at Tuesday morning's opening JavaOne keynote. JavaFX Script will target desktop, web, and mobile devices.
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More Changes for VB on Silverlight
Silverlight is bringing a lot of changes to VB, including cross-platform support. While much of VB is going to be available in Silverlight, including VB's collection of legacy functions and LINQ, not everything will be available moving forward.