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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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Adobe Releases Flash Player Beta for Linux
Adobe has recently released a beta of Flash Player 9 for Linux. This allows Linux users to view sites that make heavy use of Flash like YouTube, Yahoo Maps Beta, and InfoQ's own Flash based interviews and presentations.
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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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Project Orbit: Sun and OpenLaszlo to support J2ME as compile target
OpenLaszlo has teamed up with Sun to extend their platform to also compile J2ME apps. The goal of becoming a multi-platform runtime platform was first announced in June, when OpenLaslzo announced Legals, which would provide cross-browser pure DHTML as a compile target in addition to Flash.
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Return of the Rich Client - .NET 3.0 Meets the NY Times
Listening to all the Web 2.0 hype, you would think rich client applications have gone the way of DOS and dinosaurs. But it appears that the New York Times didn't get the memo, and they have the killer app to prove it.
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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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Instantiations Adds Google Web Toolkit Support with GWT Designer
GWT has become the new favorite technology of tools providers. Instantiations, makers of visual design tools for SWT and Swing, has now added GWT support with the GWT designer.
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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."
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Adobe Releases Flex SDK for Ruby on Rails
Adobe has released an SDK with four full examples for developing rich Internet applications using Rails and Adobe Flex technologies.
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Progress Towards "Java Browser Edition"
Earlier this year Ethan Nicholas proposed that Java needed a "Browser Edition" to compete with industry leading technologies such as Flash in the browser space. Ethan is back with a blog entry updating his progress on slimming down the install footprint of Java.
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A 30 Minute Flex Test Drive for Java Developers
In response to comments from an earlier piece on how Flex can transform the user experience of the web, Christophe Coenraets, a Senior Technical Evangelist at Adobe, has written a 30 minute Flex test drive for Java developers.
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WebORB - Easily Makes Rails Models Accessible to Flex / Flash
A new Rails plugin, WebORB, ties together the worlds of Ruby on Rails and Adobe's Flex technologies in an easy manner.
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Towards the Optimal Javascript Inheritance Technique
Lead developer of the ThinWire Java-based RIA framework Joshua Gertzen has written an article going over existing approaches to implementing OO inheritance in Javascript and presents the solution they ended up using on their product.
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Opinion: Flex can transform the user experience on the web
Adobe's Christophe Coenraets, recently blogged on how Flex can transform the user experience on the web. The Flex SDK was recently made free, and combined with the ubiquity of the Flash VM, Flex could have a potential to be the platform of choice for ajax-style rich web development. Christophe stressed a number of features that are not unique by themselves yet valuable when used together.